Bogwoppit (A Puffin Book)

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He was quite prepared to believe that the Bogwoppit existed, but not that people behaved as they did throughout the book.

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. It is about an orphan girl whose guardian aunt was done with her and told her to go live with her antisocial aunt. We are not responsible for the republishing of the content found on this blog on other Web sites or media without our permission. 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.To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Ursula Moray Williams (19 April 1911 – 17 October 2006) was an English children’s author of nearly 70 books for children.

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. She has been abandoned in a decaying old house by her aristocratic explorer husband, fighting the creeping damp and the encroaching bogwoppits and it has made her afraid and bitter.The story is interesting, I remember being gripped by it as a kid, and with a group of my friends, because it has more tragedy in it than most books for kids that age, and yet it's fun, quirky, and has so many things in it that you want in a story at that age.