How did Long John Silver Lose his Leg? by Dennis Butts

Author:Dennis Butts
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Children's literature, best-loved, classics, children, books, The Railway Children, Beatrix potter, John Masefield, George Orwell, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Tom Brown, children's writers, William Mayne, crimes against children, genre, issues
Publisher: The Lutterworth Press
Published: 2014-06-10T04:00:00+00:00

The driving force behind most of the stories, then, is the tension between the adult and the child, and it is not entirely clear that Milne (as one might have expected) is on the child’s side. His scene-setting for his idyll, for example, does not seem to be exactly child-focussed.

By the time it came to the edge of the Forest, the stream had grown up, so it was almost a river, and, being grown-up, it did not run and jump and sparkle along as it used to when it was younger, but moved more slowly. For now it knew where it was going, it said to itself, ‘There is no hurry. We shall get there some day.’ But all the little streams higher up in the Forest went this way and that, quickly, eagerly, having so much to find out before it was too late.

There was a broad track, almost as broad as a road, leading from the Outland to the Forest, but before it could come to the Forest, it had to cross this river. So where it crossed, there was a wooden bridge, almost as broad as a road, with wooden rails on each side of it . . .

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