Enter the enchanting world (sans political correctness..)
In Nov 2020, Anushka decided to move from picture books and had a growing interest in more elaborately set characters and adventure stories. We attribute this to the influence of her 9-year old cousin. In the months to come the kids (3 cousins and a neighbor who had by now become a gang of sorts in our apartment during the pandemic-filled days) took to creating a secret seven(four?) club and imagining dramatic scenes where they rescue each other. After much time spent exploring, it was decided to go with a familiar book. We borrowed the first book of The Faraway Series. Started on the journey to introduce her to the world created by Enid Blyton. The nostalgia that the book brought me was also an added incentive to start reading the series to her. I remembered what fun it was to read these books(Wishing chair, Famous Five, ..) as a kid, having begged parents to buy, and then borrowing a lot more from a local library and from the school library where we scrounged for Bly...