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Anyone read or even HEARD of this kids book?

I downloaded one ep of a telly adaptation and it is BOBBINS SQUARED

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Friday, 21 April 2006 12:23 (twenty years ago)

the book is GREBT -- v.v.scary -- and it is also the basis of a not-bad film called PAPER HOUSE

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 21 April 2006 12:25 (twenty years ago)

...and I thought you were going to post pervy dreams about our contralto.

― Henrietta Leavitt and the Cepheid Variables (kate), Friday, 21 April 2006 12:25 (twenty years ago)

the review of paper house sa that the telly version is truer to the book

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Friday, 21 April 2006 12:57 (twenty years ago)

yeah paper house comes adrift a bit at the end, gets more adventure thrillery and has "closure" -- the book is really very gentle and open-ended

also the releationship outside the dream is slightly differently set up i think

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:30 (twenty years ago)

It wasn't the fact the rocks had eyes but the whispering that freaked me out when I read it.

Mind you, looking back, once they escaped by bike, why were they still scared? How fast can a huge boulder move?

― Paul Kelly (kelly), Monday, 24 April 2006 06:01 (twenty years ago)

it was one of my favourite books when i was a little girl. i have thought about it quite a bit recently- i'd like to read it again. i remember the tv series being very good as well.

― estela (estela), Monday, 24 April 2006 07:17 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

The TV series was called "Escape into the Night" and apparently is now on DVD, though only in black and white, whereas I believe the original was colour. I never saw it but I did see paperhouse which was not anything like as terrifying as the book.

I read it at that age where a boy wouldn't usually read a book with a girl's name in the title, perhaps I should have let it be. It scared the hell out of me. The whispers and the menace of boulders...who knew.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A14535209

― Proger, Thursday, 11 March 2010 15:22 (sixteen years ago)

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