2009 bookcrossing thoughts: I vaguely remember having read this a lot of years ago, but when I read it this time, the story really wasn´t that familiar to me at all. I do like reading children´s books now and then. I really enjoyed it. OK, being 101 years old it is a little bit of a product of it´s time - such as the bit about girls having to be soft and weak so that babies will like them!!! But it is really nice escapism to this almost idyllic childhood world where there aren´t really bad people and kids can go running about on their own, having little adventures and talking to strangers.

In the background there is a little nod to real life. At the beginning they move to the countryside from their London home. Father doesn´t come with them and their mother won´t tell them what has happened. The fact is, daddy dear has been locked up in prison. Obviously a horrible mistake, so it all ends well in the end, but still, it is a note that not everything in life is fair or perfect.