Re: Books/TV was Children's Book Recommendation

[Guest guest]

> I remember being in tears watching Ballet Shoes cos they got

the hair

> wrong (IMO!) and someone tell me surely isn't Sybil Cazalet

meant to

> have chestnut hair???!!!!

> Angi

I remember Ballet Shoes on telly - it wasn't narly as good as the

book. Same with Swish of the Curtain (I loved the Pamela Brown

books).

As a 14 year old I was really taken by 'Penmarric' (

Howatch) and read it about 6 times...and then my mum was

offered the job as costume designer on the TV series!! Joy of

joys! I saw the rather pathetic background notes that came with

the script - and set about rewriting them - along with a very

accurate family tree (the writer's one was quite pathetic) - and it

ended up being used by the crew!!

Anyway - despite this hard work it was still a totally awful series

You can sometimes find videos of it in the library. My mum did

the middle 6 episodes (edwardian/first world war era) and to be

honest the only thing good about it is the costumes )

It did mean i spent the whole of 1979 summer in Cornwall -

mostly St Ives. As my mum was working I could do what i liked

when I liked - really quite blissful.

Caroline