Someone mentioned Incredible Journey - that's a happy ending yet it finishes
me off just thinking about it, and reading it to the kids was a *big*
mistake!
But have any of you read Jock of the Bushveld by Percy Fitzpatrick? Famous
old story about a Staffie type hunting dog belonging to a wagoneer
Heather wrote:
The empty chair in Granpa - ditto. An education lecturer read this with
slide illustrations and had about 50 PGCE students in tears.
Oh yes, I was just about to cite John Burningham's Granpa myself. I can't
read it aloud to a class, it would upset me far too much. Only saw the
