tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950999049789394042.post9103703266490239994..comments2024-03-27T06:42:26.250-07:00Comments on Seven Miles of Steel Thistles: Disturbing StoriesKatherine Langrishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12529700103932422873noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950999049789394042.post-47819359744697616572011-08-11T10:04:27.090-07:002011-08-11T10:04:27.090-07:00How interesting - and strange! The cover artwork ...How interesting - and strange! The cover artwork clearly resonated with us both!Katherine Langrishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12529700103932422873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950999049789394042.post-64163837782459888732011-08-11T01:13:08.034-07:002011-08-11T01:13:08.034-07:00Just found this post from a linkback too. I had t...Just found this post from a linkback too. I had this book as a child, probably about your age too. I re-bought it recently, for the cover, but haven't re-read it yet. Oddly, I don't remember the cattle rustling at all - but I do remember the saddle and other tack that the old man kept clean and supple, and the ride through the snow for the doctor. Odd how different things strike chords...Freyalynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11911845535682123517noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950999049789394042.post-56420813728061141132010-12-03T17:16:08.027-08:002010-12-03T17:16:08.027-08:00Just found this post (it was linked to on the most...Just found this post (it was linked to on the most recent fairytale one)...I had Snowcloud Stallion too...and I think I must have liked it more for the cover myself, because I have no recollection whatsoever of the content!Charlottehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11835101886202235868noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950999049789394042.post-16707856039482721032010-01-16T04:03:25.346-08:002010-01-16T04:03:25.346-08:00I left my two-year-old daughter watching - I thoug...I left my two-year-old daughter watching - I thought in complete safety - a Pingu DVD. She wasn't talking yet by that age, so we had to rewind to find the cause of her hysterical screaming. It was the episode where Pingu is smacked and runs away, and perceives all the icebergs as monsters till his parents find him again. Pingu! Who'd have thought? But watching it myself, I could straight away see why she was scared. We had to skip that episode for about a year afterwards.<br /><br />Kath, I had Snow Cloud Stallion! I don't remember that bit, but I do remember the magnificent cover. I must look it out again.Gillian Philiphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17775401199564200537noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950999049789394042.post-13715396338658481202009-12-21T06:01:08.470-08:002009-12-21T06:01:08.470-08:00For us it was the firebrigade's video shown in...For us it was the firebrigade's video shown in the Infants school. After several nights of child sleeping with us, stiff as a plank, I approached the head teacher to ask what on earth they'd done. It sounded innocent enough, but the effect...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950999049789394042.post-21180616937107448742009-12-16T12:19:54.164-08:002009-12-16T12:19:54.164-08:00It's many years since I read Bambi, but yes, t...It's many years since I read Bambi, but yes, that was upsetting. All those old animal stories we used to read - the Story of a Red Deer, was it? and The Call of the Wild - where are thier equivalents today?Katherine Langrishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12529700103932422873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950999049789394042.post-79741470827609250892009-12-16T09:21:04.080-08:002009-12-16T09:21:04.080-08:00I can remember being deeply upset by BAMBI - the b...I can remember being deeply upset by BAMBI - the bit where Gobi, having been rescued and nurtured by a human, believes he can trust people and walks towards the hunter who kills him. I'm not sure how old I was when I read it - about ten, perhaps? It was the fallibility of humans that upset me as much as the death of Gobi and the distress for Bambi. (I've never seen the Disney, fortunately - but the novel by Felix Saltern has stayed in my mind.)Linda Newberynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950999049789394042.post-31052008025415197142009-12-16T06:15:02.171-08:002009-12-16T06:15:02.171-08:00I was terrified (okay, I wasn only about three or ...I was terrified (okay, I wasn only about three or so!) of the fox in Jemima Puddleduck. But I liked the story so my mother would cover up the fox with her hand when he appeared. It was the ART rather than the words which scared me. I was quite happy to have the text read aloud. But FOX had to be covered up! I think the fact that you can never predict what will frighten someone nor at what age is one of the things that makes the age banding stuff such nonsense. Catherine Storr once said quite memorably that you can scare children, but not allow them to believe there is no HOPE.adelehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15826710558292792068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950999049789394042.post-77154251662495360992009-12-16T04:45:27.481-08:002009-12-16T04:45:27.481-08:00I think you might well be right, Nick, and I think...I think you might well be right, Nick, and I think if someone had me wired to an electroencepholgraph or whatever the things are called, there'd still be a spike as I read that word.Katherine Langrishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12529700103932422873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950999049789394042.post-36031580826284193592009-12-16T02:52:08.997-08:002009-12-16T02:52:08.997-08:00Interesting! A wild guess, but I think it might ha...Interesting! A wild guess, but I think it might have been that word 'grotesquely' that may have seeded terror in your brain... it's doubtful you would have known what it meant, and so it could have been a repository for all sorts of nameless fears. Just my feeling; I found that word very spooky at one time, and am still a bit reluctant to use it.<br /><br />But children - some, anyway - do seem to be primed with this animal sense of fear that most of us un-learn as we grow up. Almost anything can set it off. I had a picture book when I was small called 'Magic and Make Believe' which had a wolf's head on the cover, in the corner... in the end, I simply couldn't have it in my room. But I don't think any of the stories were that scary.Nick Greenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11307045090887391553noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950999049789394042.post-28119034026641905082009-12-16T02:28:49.005-08:002009-12-16T02:28:49.005-08:00Yes, it's funny, isn't it? When my daught...Yes, it's funny, isn't it? When my daughters were small I discovered that for one-off scary experiences (a scary story told by a schoolfriend or a frightening bit from a film) if I RETOLD the story aloud, with sufficient conviction AND a different ending or twist to make it anodyne, they would stop being scared and never be frightened by that particular thing again. I would begin, "OK, they got it wrong; I know what really happened..." and invent as I went. Worth passing on!Katherine Langrishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12529700103932422873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950999049789394042.post-17945282519956498382009-12-15T22:37:47.240-08:002009-12-15T22:37:47.240-08:00What a wonderful post, Kath :-) I was scared of He...What a wonderful post, Kath :-) I was scared of Heidi - the bit with the 'ghsot'. My Small Bint, though, was terrified of a Thomas the Tank Engine video in which Percy? Thomas? gets jam on his engine and she was convinced it was blood.<br /><br />I did try once, with a story (can't remember which) that one of them was scared of, saying 'but you have heard this story before - you know what happens. You know it is going to be OK', but that didn't work. The great answer was 'well, it might be different this time'. What does that tell us about books, I wonder?Stroppy Authorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16560035800075465845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950999049789394042.post-18890915602681530292009-12-15T09:42:37.006-08:002009-12-15T09:42:37.006-08:00There was an Enid Blyton book with a tunnel which ...There was an Enid Blyton book with a tunnel which ended in a wardrobe, that made me scared of wardrobes for years...but I read The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe quite happily. How strange..Keren Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13121027210783177857noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950999049789394042.post-87835028671283680902009-12-15T08:25:36.142-08:002009-12-15T08:25:36.142-08:00Not a book, but... Whenever George Formby came on ...Not a book, but... Whenever George Formby came on the telly with his ukelele I would be absolutely terrified and have to hide behind the sofa until someone switched channels! I can't imagine what it was. That insistent chirpiness?karen Ballhttp://www.karen-ball.comnoreply@blogger.com