cybermule | Books: The Country Child

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1782775.The_Country_Child

I remember being besotted with this as a kid. Sadly my own 21st Century Sprog finds these sorts of books twee and disinteresting, but whatevs. It's a semi autobiographical story of a year in the life of a strange little girl growing up in Derbyshire, focusing on the details of nature and the hard farm life in what must have been around the 1900s. I think to my kid it would seem very much old fashioned, and to a 70s child it was a little too, but there were traces of old childhood games that still survived in the rural Cotswolds and there's an eternal nature to the fey child anyway. There probably still are small people sniffing trees and befriending streams out there, just my child isn't one of them.

This edition has lovely woodcuts. I think it would work well for you if you're fond of the "older" psychogeographical nature writers (i.e. before psychgeography was a thing). Or if you liked Cider with Rosie, maybe?

ashlyme has my copy but you're welcome to borrow it when they're done.