Noel Streatfeild again

[ailbhe]

Found a list of the books and their bloody stupid alternative titles at http://www.whitegauntlet.com.au/noelstreatfeild/ChildFiction/Books.htm

So now I know which ones I have.

ORIGINAL TITLE  	DATE  	ALTERNATIVE TITLE/S
  	  	 
Ballet Shoes 	1936 	 
Tennis Shoes 	        1937 	
The Circus is Coming 	1938 	Circus Shoes
Dennis the Dragon 	1939 	
The House in Cornwall 	1940 	The Secret of the Lodge
The Children of Primrose Lane 	1941 	The Stranger in Primrose Lane
Harlequinade 	        1943 	 
Curtain Up 	        1944 	Theater Shoes / Other People’s Shoes
Party Frock 	        1946 	Party Shoes
The Painted Garden 	1949 	Movie Shoes
Osbert 	                1950 	 
The Theater Cat 	1951 	 
White Boots 	        1951 	Skating Shoes
The Fearless Treasure 	1953 	
The Bell Family 	1954 	The Story of the Bell Family / Family Shoes
The Grey Family 	1956 	
Wintle’s Wonders 	1957 	Dancing Shoes
Bertram 	        1959 	 
Christmas with the Chrystals 	1959 	 
New Town 	        1960 	New Shoes
Apple Bough 	        1962 	Traveling Shoes
Lisa Goes to Russia 	1963 	 
The Children on the Top Floor 	1964 	 
Let's Go Coaching 	1965 	 
Old Chairs to Mend 	1966 	 
The Growing Summer 	1966 	The Magic Summer
Caldicott Place 	1967 	The Family at Caldicott Place
The Barrow Lane Gang 	1968 	 
Gemma 	        1968 	
Gemma and Sisters 	1968 	 
Gemma Alone 	        1969 	Gemma the Star
Good-bye Gemma 	        1969 	Good-Bye Gemma! / Gemma in Love
Thursday’s Child 	1970 	
Ballet Shoes for Anna 	1972 	
When the Siren Wailed 	1974 	When the Sirens Wailed
Far to Go 	        1976 	
Meet the Maitlands 	1978 	The Maitlands
The Maitlands, All Change at Cuckly Place 	1979 	 

Comments

[nwhyte]

What did you think of The Growing Summer? I remember liking it but thinking it was a bit odd.

[ailbhe]

I like it - growing up I thought it impossible that any children could be so helpless but now I know that many are. One gets used to the Oirishness of Ireland in fiction by British and American authors, so that wasn't a problem. And everyone knows British parents are forever abandoning their children - look at Enid Blyton! - so that was ok too.

I seem to recall that my favourite Irish authors all killed parents off rather than having them abandon the children. That always seemed more plausible to me.

[whirligigwitch.livejournal.com]

Those stupid alternative titles annoy me too. Looks like we have (mine are all at my parents' house still) most of the same ones. Prompted by your post the other day I've been looking again at children's books on Ebay and this was one of the authors I searched.

By the way, I have a few Chalet School books lying around here if you would like me to send you some to read.

[ailbhe]

We used to have "The Circus is Coming" and all four of the Gemma books and "Ballet Shoes for Anna" as well, but the ones I have are not the ones I had growing up; they went the way of all things during house move, seperation and custody case.

Rob got me some Chalet School books in the library; they're numbered 2, 3, 4, 8 and 9. More owuld be fab.

[wingedkami.livejournal.com]

Somewhere I have a copy of 'Gemma and Sisters', but I've ever read any of the other Gemma books.

Did whoever did the alternative titles have a shoe fixation?

I'm also a big fan of the Sadlers Wells series. I have most of them somewhere.

[ailbhe]

My only memory of those is the one where whatsername gets hypothermia and is rescued by Sebastian.

[whirligigwitch.livejournal.com]

I always remember the snakebite when they were out on the moors and Sebastian had to ride to the rescue. Most of those books are at my childhood home as well, though I only ever had 1-10. Much of the countryside setting is set locally, in Northumberland, I thought about them a lot when I first moved here and started to see the area.

[whirligigwitch.livejournal.com]

I'll look some out for you. Some of them are later in the series, but I think you'd have your work cut out ever trying to read them in sequence ;-)

Drop me an email (tara@whirligigworld.co.uk) with your address and I'll get some in the post for you on Monday.

I liked 9 in the series, I have fond memories of finding it hilariously funny as a child.

[trinker.livejournal.com]

Ah...I didn't realize that those were the books you were talking about. nifty!

[alison.hemuk.myopenid.com (from livejournal.com)]

Ah, I made you a pile of books earlier, but I skipped over the Noel Streatfeilds thinking you'd have all the ones I have. but no :) Will now add a couple more books to the pile and drop them off in the morning.

[ailbhe]

Yes PLEASE thank you very much.

Apple Bough does mention the Academy, so I suppose that's the connection, but it's feeble and silly.

[hfnuala.livejournal.com]

I adored Apple Bough as a kid. I suspect it was the traveling.

[sashajwolf.livejournal.com]

I remember liking the Gemma books as a kid. I can visualise the cover of one of them, but apart from that, I don't remember much about them.

[taimatsu]

I had and loved many of these when I was younger. I especially adored Party Frock because we had it in a lovely blue hardcover rather than the well-loved tatty paperbacks of most of the others.