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>Don't forget Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book and the other tales of India during the Raj.>
>Oh yes! I did forget to mention it to her. Mowgli, wasn't it? It's been over 40 yrs since I read it :)
Aye. It's just made me think that the only exposure my kids have had to his books has been the Disney film, and the odd modern, real-people film, but that they've never read/been read the books - nor, for that matter, have I! I must trawl the charity and 2nd-hand book shops! :-)
There was "Kim" too wasn't there? I remember the technicolour films of my youth.
- Whoever said that women are the weaker sex never tried to wrest the bedclothes off one in the middle of the night
- Worry is the interest you pay, in advance, for a loan that you may never need to take out.