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45 of 45 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A delightful reading experience,
This review is from: Village School (The Fairacre Series #1) (Paperback)
Five years have passed since Miss Read became the schoolmistress of the English village, Fairacre. A new school term is to begin and Miss Read looks forward to it with wonder, some trepidation, but mostly hopes for her pupils including three new students. Miss Read knows that she must help the somewhat frightened newcomers fit into the class as smoothly as possible. The school year brings its usual learning, fun, and skinned knees needing special tender care. Along with Miss Reed, the dedicated but somewhat old-fashioned yet quite popular "uncertificated Teacher" Miss Clare is back and the gloom and doom custodian Mrs. Pringle is ready to keep the building clean. Finally, the awe and energy of the wide-eyed children and their village relatives offer a new year of promise and hard work. The first novel in Miss Read's cherished Fairacre series, VILLAGE SCHOOL is a reprint of the 1955 tale that introduced the lovable teacher and her villagers to the world. Though written before Sputnik, the story line surprisingly retains a freshness and high energy level at a leisurely pace even as the remoteness of the village seems impossible in today's Internet world. The enjoyable offbeat cast remains fun to observe and often humorous as life in a bygone era comes fully alive in what was contemporary then but a strong historical now. This demonstrates how good a writer Miss Read is. Harriet Klausner
33 of 33 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Put the kettle on,
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This review is from: Village School (The Fairacre Series #1) (Paperback)
Bake a batch of scones and settle down to a lovely world, a small English village school as seen through the eyes of Miss Read, a teacher. These are my run-for-cover books. When the world is too much with me, I find my copy of Village School or Village Diary, wrap up in a quilt, and fall under the spell of these gentle novels.
25 of 26 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Must read for connoisseurs of English village life!,
By A Customer
This review is from: Village School (The Fairacre Series #1) (Hardcover)
This book is the first leg of a heart warming adventure.
Set in the imaginary world of Fairacre, a village in
England, Miss Read, the headmistress, regales her readers
with humorous stories about her students and the village
residents. Come fall in love with such characters
as Mrs. Pringle, a cantankerous hypochondriac, who cleans
the school house and needles Miss Read with endless
complaints. A more lovable character is Miss Claire who
teaches the "babies" and is much respected by Miss Read and
her fellow villagers.
The author, Dora Jessie Saint, is a retired school teacher
who pulls extensively from her own experiences. There are
a number of books which include further adventures in
Fairacre, including her most recent title "Tales from a
Village School". In addition to Fairacre, she has other
imaginary villages including Thrush Green and Caxley, each
village has their own set of lovable characters and unique
situations.
If you are looking for sex, violence, or "street" language,
these books are not for you. They are wholesome stories
which engage the reader with their simple presentation of
English village life. I highly recommend them for anyone
who wants to escape to a simplier more genteel time.
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