Read With Mother

“I say! Look at all those red apples on that tree!” said Tom, looking over Farmer Corn’s hedge.
Harry looked all around. “Let’s get over the hedge and get some. There’s nobody to see us!”

—Enid Blyton’s Storytime Book by Enid Blyton
[Chapter Fourteen. Page 91.]

“England is a strange land – and it looks a speck on the map!”
“I know – but it’s a speck that counts for most on the map of the world, anyway.”

—The Riddle of the Rock by Spencer Deane.
[Chapter Two. Page 15.]

“It must be nice to be so rich that you can buy an island.”

—Adventure on the Island by W Murray.
[No Chapters. Page 4.]

“No, but I been rich wunst, and gwyne to be rich again. Wunst I had foteen, dollars but I took to speculatin’, en got busted out.”

—The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain.
[Chapter Eight. Page 56.]

“Isn’t Sally wonderful?” said Mickey lazily. “She ought to be Prime Minister – or aren’t women ever allowed to be?”

—The Put-Em-Rights by Enid Blyton.
[Chapter Eighteen. Page 116.]

“That’s what one would call an uncollected trot,” I commented to Jacqueline.”

—Jacqueline Rides For a Fall by Pat Smythe.
[Chapter Four. Page 56.]

“Flossie was the kitchen maid; a pert little thing, who would rather spend her time gossiping with to Sammy Brown, the gardener’s boy, than helping Mrs Simms in the kitchen.”

—Premier Book for Children by Dean and Sons.
[Chapter Eleven. Page 49.]