URING A RECENT SPELL of family self-isolation, my daughter became obsessed with a vintage film adaptation of Philippa Pearce’s 1958 kids’ classic, . While it didn’t, strictly speaking, count as home-learning, it was apt in its way, opening as its eponymous boy hero is sent to quarantine with an aunt and uncle while his younger brother lays bedridden with measles. Tom is warned on arrival that he’s going to find it terribly dull, since the childless
Paradise regained
Feb 24, 2022
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