Bogwoppit (A Puffin Book)

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The way the relationship develops between these two spiky and independent characters, who we can see are lonely and actually need each other, is fun to read and I think all children secretly dream of being able to speak to adults the way Samantha does and getting away with it! My pick for the book I would take from my childhood favourites to read and reread on a desert island for June was Bogwoppit by Ursula Moray Williams. Weaving humour, fantasy and suspense into a highly inventive story, its eco theme and larger-than-life characters ensure its popularity with today’s young readers.

I have been looking for this book for years because I LOVED it as a child, but it's always out of print. It immediately sold out but disappeared until re-issued in abridged form by Kaye Webb at Puffin Books twenty years later, when it became a best-seller.I love it just as much today as I did back then, and I think it’s a brilliantly constructed, cleverly written and humorous story that will appeal to any generation. The antisocial aunt lives in a mansion in a park, and absolutely does not want the girl staying there.

She wrote and illustrated over sixty books for children with the most notable being Gobbolino the Witch's Cat and The Adventures of the Little Wooden Horse. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Ursula Moray Williams was born on 19 April 1911 at Petersfield, Hampshire, ten minutes after her twin sister, Barbara.After her husband's death in 1974, Ursula Moray Williams remained active, writing, gardening, giving talks and visiting her family in various parts of the world.

It is about an orphan girl whose guardian aunt was done with her and told her to go live with her antisocial aunt. Many people will know Ursula Moray Williams for her more famous books, Gobbolino the Witch’s Catand The Adventures of the Little Wooden Horse, both of which I loved, but my favourite of her books was always Bogwoppit.I’d like to be able to describe them to you, but they aren’t really like anything you’ll every have seen and you need to read the book to understand them.

By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. THE BOGWOPPIT is a light-hearted, lively story, brilliantly told by Ursula Moray Williams, author of GOBBOLINO (also available in A Puffin Book series). Aunt Daisy wants to get rid of them all, but Samantha grows very fond of one and can't bear to part with him.En masse, they are quite annoying, but The-One-and-Only-Bogwoppit-in-the-World is different and becomes the star of the show. She discovers they were thought to be extinct, and is deeply horrified when her aunt, who considers them pests, kills all of them with poison.