Watched David Lean's Great Expectations with Liv in our old movie quest. She actually liked it and acted out all the parts the next day in retelling. Herbert Pocket is played by an extremely young Alec Guiness and she said that whenever he was on the screen she felt safe. As in How Green Was my Valley there is all sorts of awful stuff happening to children. I don't think she'll ever be a candidate for the Lemony Snicket school of children's book with all sorts of nasty things happening to the kids. She likes fairies, small furry animals and happy kids in her books.
We were at Borders the other day getting a book about a fairy and a furry animal and felt quite well read as a mother was looking for the new Penderwick book and Liv got to tell her the name. Then another woman was hunting for the Ivy and Bean books and we got to nod solemnly at each other like literary critics.
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