I think I read Dimsie at the same age, though my exposure was through the Goodman reprints, so did not include florins or war! My copy now is a proper one though, and I liked the detail about the burst sandbags on the beach, and Meg teaching them to identify destroyers.
Although generally I am a bit sceptical of great noble sacrifice, I think Bruce does it really well. When Sylvia comes back and Daphne cries because it's all been so horrible, it's properly what it would be like, I think, all isolated and lonely and yet not really anything else to be done.
I am looking forward to reading the next ones, I'd thought that the tunnel-finding came in this one, and was almost disappointed that it wasn't there.
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Date: 2009-10-01 11:23 am (UTC)Although generally I am a bit sceptical of great noble sacrifice, I think Bruce does it really well. When Sylvia comes back and Daphne cries because it's all been so horrible, it's properly what it would be like, I think, all isolated and lonely and yet not really anything else to be done.
I am looking forward to reading the next ones, I'd thought that the tunnel-finding came in this one, and was almost disappointed that it wasn't there.