Bogwoppit (A Puffin Book)

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It used to make me think amazing things can happen to anyone, which is always the best kind of children’s book.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. I would have preferred more about the old house and garden, and less about the bogwoppits, who are unpleasant and stinky, but it a child who enjoys all the magical creature books around today were to somehow come across it, they might like the bogwoppits much more than I did. Ursula Moray Williams (19 April 1911 – 17 October 2006) was an English children’s author of nearly 70 books for children.

When Aunt Lily marries the lodger and goes to America, orphaned Samantha is packed off to her Aunt Daisy, who lives in a grand house at the Park. THE BOGWOPPIT is a light-hearted, lively story, brilliantly told by Ursula Moray Williams, author of GOBBOLINO (also available in A Puffin Book series).

After her husband's death in 1974, Ursula Moray Williams remained active, writing, gardening, giving talks and visiting her family in various parts of the world. Their relationship gets off to a shaky start, made all the more precarious by the unexpected appearance in the kitchen of a curious wide-eyed creature with a long furry tale, feathered wings and two webbed feet.He was quite prepared to believe that the Bogwoppit existed, but not that people behaved as they did throughout the book. By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file.

The last thing she wants is the responsibility of her brash niece, but Samantha isn’t taking no for an answer, and they are going to have to learn how to rub along together.

The antisocial aunt lives in a mansion in a park, and absolutely does not want the girl staying there.

They included The Good Little Christmas Tree of 1943, and Gobbolino, the Witch’s Cat first published the previous year. It seems as though Samantha and her aunt will never agree - until one day Aunt Daisy mysteriously disappears and Samantha plans a big rescue operation! You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. She has been abandoned in a decaying old house by her aristocratic explorer husband, fighting the creeping damp and the encroaching bogwoppits and it has made her afraid and bitter.The book suffers from what most of the other reviewers have said - they (like me) read it when they were young and assumed their kids would like it too now.