Books/TV was Children's Book Recommendation

[Guest guest]

>We've just got Cockatoos by Quentin Blake out - I thought counting

books had

>to be tedious.... I'm off to Waterstone's on Sunday to buy this one!!

But I

>*always* refuse to read the TV spinoff books (except the Maisy

lift-the-flap

>books which are actually quite funny!)

>

>Vicki Portman

>

of course the difference with those is that the books came first, so

will always be better than the TV (though I have to say that as far as

TV adaptations go Maisy is pretty cool!!)

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