With these children’s classics it seems they’ve captured the public’s imagination again with the affordable keepsake books already proving popular in the run-up to Christmas. Hertfordshire-based family business Wordsworth Editions shook up the book publishing world in the early 1990s, when they launched their range of paperback Classics, priced at just £1 each.
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She’s in a Welsh medium school and favourites in Welsh include the Na! Nel series by Meleri Wyn James and Mererid Hopwood’s Miss Prydderch series.Īs much as I encourage her to indulge her love of contemporary children’s fiction, I’ve also been keen to introduce her to children’s classics – including some of my own childhood favourites. She adores Jill Murphy’s Worst Witch collection and also enjoys Rachel Renee Russell’s The Dork Diaries and Jeff Kinney’s Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. She has such a love of reading and constantly has her nose in one book or another and is always thrilled at any opportunity to add to her growing literary collection.Ĭurrent favourites include anything and everything by Jacqueline Wilson, David Walliams, Enid Blyton and Roald Dahl, all of whose books she re-reads continually. When I asked my daughter what she wanted for her ninth birthday her reply was an unequivocal “lots of books”. *Gift Aid Admissions let us reclaim tax on the whole amount paid - an extra 25 per cent - potentially a very significant boost to our places' funds.Thank you to Wordsworth for giving my daughter these books in exchange for this review Gift Aid Admissions let us reclaim tax on the whole amount paid - an extra 25 per cent - potentially a very significant boost to our places' funds.Īn extra £1 paid under the scheme can be worth over £3 to the National Trust as shown below: Gift Aid Admission includes a 10 per cent or more voluntary donation. It's entirely up to you which ticket you choose. If the place runs Gift Aid on Entry, we'll offer you a clear choice between the Gift Aid Admission prices and the Standard Admission prices at the admission point. Under this scheme, if you're not a member you have the choice of two entry tickets: Most of our places run the Gift Aid on Entry scheme at their admission points. Pre-booking is not needed, but timed tickets may operate on busy days. In the front rooms there are no ropes and barriers, but we ask you not to touch the objects. The visitor offer in the back rooms (excluding the exhibition space) is hands-on to make you feel at home. The beautiful riverside garden that gave William lifelong inspiration is packed with 18th-century varieties of vegetables, fruit, herbs and flowers, and the River Derwent runs behind William’s beloved terrace walk. Souvenirs and second-hand books are available in our visitor welcome area. In the downstairs discovery room, there is a permanent exhibition about William’s Lakeland legacy and his key role in the founding of the National Trust. In 2022 we have a special exhibition Scree, co-created with poet Lucy Burnett. The exhibition rooms house a changing programme of displays. There is a daily children’s trail, and down in the cellar, the household’s ghosts are waiting to tell their stories. There is real food on the dining table and a fire burning in the kitchen grate. The house is peopled by friendly, knowledgeable guides, and in holiday times, the maid-of-all-work is cooking in the kitchen – and always keen to stop for a chat.
Presented as it would have been when he lived here with his parents, siblings and the family servants, Wordsworth House and Garden offers an unforgettable chance for all ages to experience life in the 1770s. Romantic poet William Wordsworth was born in this lovely Georgian townhouse, in the Cumbrian town of Cockermouth, over 250 years ago.