the first book in a series of book reviews or just information about books that I have collected over time. You may be interested or you may not, I hope the former.
Gervase Phinn, an author, teacher and latterly school inspector. His books tend to reflect his time the schools he has inspected.
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- A Wayne in a Manger
- ISBN 10 - 014102688X
- ISBN 13 - 978-0141026886
- 160 pages
- Penguin
Ideal for a Christmas present.
This is a collection of 20 short accounts and poems, which are very easy to read and some quite moving. The Woodcarver is a particular moving story where one of the pupils has to finish reading a Christmas story due to the teacher not being able to read it as the tale was too emotional. I can relate to this, when I taught up in Yorkshire and was talking of a friend of a friend who drowned in a river, I said the river returned the body in the same spot he was lost a week later. My eyes watered and I'd like to think that my pupils saw a different side of me.
Available from bookshops, Amazon, and Waterstones as well as many other places.
