Bogwoppit (A Puffin Book)

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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 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. There are host of well-developed and hilarious characters here, all interacting in madcap ways, to make an entertaining and fulfilling story.

Firstly we have Samantha, an orphan who has been living with one of her aunts after her own mother died.

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. These drawings are not cutesy, but the pictures of Samantha are excellent and portray the complex person in the story very well indeed. The antisocial aunt lives in a mansion in a park, and absolutely does not want the girl staying there.

THE BOGWOPPIT is a light-hearted, lively story, brilliantly told by Ursula Moray Williams, author of GOBBOLINO (also available in A Puffin Book series). Lucky for Samantha, then, to discover the small, furry creature living in the cellar; a bogwoppit - believed extinct - up till now. Good reading from Bond, and plenty of creative sounds and effects to represent the Bogwoppit itself, and good distinction between characters. The last thing she wants is the responsibility of her brash niece, but Samantha isn’t taking no for an answer, and they are going to have to learn how to rub along together.He was quite prepared to believe that the Bogwoppit existed, but not that people behaved as they did throughout the book. 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.

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. 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. When Aunt Lily marries and moves to America, orphan Samantha is packed off to her Aunt Daisy, who has no time for children. Ursula Moray Williams (19 April 1911 – 17 October 2006) was an English children’s author of nearly 70 books for children. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.I would have preferred more about the old house and garden, and less about the bogwoppits, who are unpleasant and stinky, but it a child who enjoys all the magical creature books around today were to somehow come across it, they might like the bogwoppits much more than I did. I'm glad Puffin republished these lesser known children's stories, and with wonderful covers which is always a good thing. The book feels a bit dated now, A child being left to find somewhere to live whilst her relatives move to America to live, school does nothing just accepts the change. 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. In the cellar of Park House, the old mansion where orphaned Samantha has been sent to stay with her disagreeable aunt Daisy, there are hundreds of bogwoppits - believed extinct, up till now.