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The School at the Chalet
The School at the Chalet | Elinor M. Brent-Dyer
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Vansa
The School at the Chalet | Elinor M. Brent-Dyer
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#SundayFunday @ozma.of.oz such a lovely prompt! So many childhood favorites, specially nearly everything Enid Blyton has written!

BookmarkTavern So many great picks! Thank you for sharing! 2y
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johncadams
The School at the Chalet | Elinor Mary Brent-Dyer
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The School at the Chalet by Elinor Brent-Dyer is the first in the much-loved Chalet School series of school stories. This is where it all began!

#schoolstories

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A lovely bookish Christmas gift all the way from India. My dear friend sent me this gorgeous edition of ‘Jo of the Chalet School‘. I‘ve been told this book (2nd in the series) is particularly festive & filled with wonderful descriptions of wintertime & the holidays. I‘m planning on diving into this little gem over the Christmas holiday. It‘s currently residing on my nightstand, & every time I see it, I get so excited to pick it up in a few days.

Nute I like everything about this post! Awesome photo! 5y
squirrelbrain What @Nute said! Gorgeous photo, and I love the Chalet School books! 5y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Love seeing your beautiful posts sweet friend 💗💗💗 5y
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erzascarletbookgasm Love this photo! Merry Christmas and happy holidays! 🎄🎉💕 5y
batsy I loved the few Chalet School books I've read! Lovely edition 😍 5y
LeahBergen Love the Chalet School books! ❤️ 5y
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Verity
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I am in book geek heaven - I‘m at a conference for School girl literature from the 20th century this weekend. So excited.

TrishB Sounds fab 👍🏻 6y
Itchyfeetreader Well this sounds like fun! 6y
jhod Amazing!! 6y
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Jess_Read_This Oh, that just sounds amazing... absolutely amazing! Please share more from the conference! 6y
batsy This sounds perfect ❤️ 6y
LeahBergen No!! That sounds awesome. 👏🏻👏🏻 I recently came across this book 👇🏻 (and bought it, of course 😆) ... have you heard of it? 6y
Andrea313 Wow! That sounds incredible. I'd love to hear more about it! 6y
Verity @LeahBergen I‘m not a big Brazil reader (I think I‘ve maybe read 2) but I think I am surrounded by people who will have read/may own that! 6y
Verity @Jess_Read_This @TrishB @Itchyfeetreader @jhod @batsy @Andrea313 it is amazing and I am having the most fun. I have bought so many books though... 6y
LeahBergen Yeah, I‘m not a big Brazil fan, either, but the book is pretty interesting as to the history of schoolgirl stories (basically what you‘re doing at that conference, you lucky thing!). 6y
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Itchyfeetreader
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#Heyjune I adored the Chalet School books when I was younger. In Jo returns Jo learns the hard way that. Being a #paperbackwriter is harder than she thought! @Cinfhen @MinDea

LeahBergen 💕💕 6y
Cinfhen Looks sweet #nostalgic 6y
Cinfhen I love @MinDea but she‘s not my cohost.... the lovely @GypsyKat is 😍 6y
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GypsyKat @Cinfhen ❤️ 6y
Itchyfeetreader @cinfhen @GypsyKat thank you and sorry. Not quite firing on all cylinders at the moment ! 6y
CarolynM 😍Chalet School❤️❤️❤️ 6y
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rachaich
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Rearranging bookcases and books #shelfie #bankholiday

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Verity
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Especially for @Itchyfeetreader and @LeahBergen here‘s my Chalet Shelves. At the top, my old paperbacks. Underneath, the new reprints of the unabridged hardback text. Also included: some ballet books and a few other childhood favourites.

squirrelbrain Wow! So many!❤️❤️ 7y
Centique Ohhhhh! 😍 I only had 3 but I loved them so much. This is awesome! 7y
Verity @squirrelbrain there‘s a fair bit of duplication between the two shelves to be fair. But I can‘t bring myself to get rid of the old ones! 7y
LeahBergen This is WONDERFUL. I had to take a screenshot so I could peer closely at them. 😂 7y
Verity @LeahBergen it‘s only taken me 25 years to get this far 😂🤣 7y
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Itchyfeetreader
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Taken a while and photo not great (but kindly snapped by my dad) as promised - here is my Chalet School collection. Note the later reprints in annoyingly different cover style, the fact my mum has been dusting and put back in a slightly odd order and the fact I was a lot tougher on spines of books as a kid (plus they have all been read at least ten times)

Verity Oh my goodness. They look so good! And they‘re much more uniform than mine! 7y
Itchyfeetreader @Verity I find myself annoyed all@over again by the blue spines. Side story I rang our local bookstore and very politely asked to order the Chalet School at War (still one my my favourites and another book that set me on to history). They took the order and asked for my credit card number at which point I explained I was ten. They were so flustered they ordered it for me but my mum was less than impressed! 7y
TommieMarie74 I‘ve never heard of this series. It sounds like a lot of fun! 7y
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Mdargusch What a great collection! 7y
Verity @Itchyfeetreader I guess mine are so far from matching that I‘ve given up on letting it bother me any more. Except that I hate the late 90s reprints and I‘m trying to swap them out for earlier ones. 7y
LeahBergen Wow!! 😍 What a great collection! And I LOVE your story about ringing the bookstore. 😂😂 7y
LeahBergen @Verity What are the 90s reprints like? Do they have bad cover art? 7y
Verity @LeahBergen they‘re just a bit naff. I think they‘re the pictures that come up when you search for the books on here. 7y
CarolynM Wow, I love the white spines! Mine were printed in the 70's and I think their spines had various pastel shades. They're in a box in the shed, I should dig them out. I don't think I had as many as you, I certainly didn't have them all. 7y
Jess_Read_This Oh wow!!! That‘s quite a collection! 7y
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LeahBergen
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Oops! I almost forgot to post this photo. Here‘s my little collection (so far 😉) of Chalet School books.

@Verity @Jess_Read_This @Itchyfeetreader @CarolynM (who else was chatting about this series?)

charl08 Are they original? Love those old 20s covers. I have a few of the Chambers reprinted hardbacks. V pretty. 7y
Verity I love them! I‘m so jealous you have the hardbacks. 7y
squirrelbrain Love these! I have a few paperback versions but no hardbacks.... 7y
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CarolynM Gorgeous! The picture on The School at the Chalet is exactly what I imagined when I read about them climbing the Alps. I've only got my ratty old childhood paperbacks. 7y
Itchyfeetreader These are beautiful - I need to persuade one of my parents to take a snap of mine for me as they are still housed at theirs! 7y
Leftcoastzen Oh so cute! These were never on my radar 7y
batsy These hardbacks are lovely! I used to love this series and still have a few beat up paperbacks ❤️ 7y
ApoptyGina69 Beautiful! I am inspired to do a similar post of my Honey Bunch books. 7y
LeahBergen @charl08 They are all oldies but not all are first editions. What years were yours published? There‘s just something so appealing about them, isn‘t there? 7y
LeahBergen @Verity Thanks! They are getting hard to find (and these are in somewhat rough condition 😄). 7y
LeahBergen @squirrelbrain Thanks! 😀 7y
LeahBergen @CarolynM Thank you! And you can‘t beat a well-loved childhood paperback. ❤️ 7y
LeahBergen @Itchyfeetreader Thanks! I‘d love to see your collection. 😀 7y
LeahBergen @Leftcoastzen Thanks! 😘 7y
LeahBergen @batsy Thanks! I can picture you as a Chalet Girl. 😄 7y
LeahBergen @ApoptyGina69 I‘d love to see them! 👏🏻 7y
charl08 Sometime in the 80s - my dad worked for the printers so I got some that didn't come out quite right! 7y
LeahBergen @charl08 Oh, now THAT‘S cool! 😮 7y
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Verity
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I'm collecting some books for my sort-of-niece. She's started reading Enid blyton and pony stories. So I think she may be nearly ready for my favourite boarding school series of all time. These are some of my duplicates (and a couple of pony books), you can see some of my collection behind to the right!

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Itchyfeetreader
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As a kid I had a real soft spot for the chalet school books (i still own all 62!) so could not resist one of Brent-Dyers other novels when I found it last week. This contains an inscription from 1930. #guiltypleasure but lots of fun and an absolute easy read!

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Verity
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Again not the right book, but I had to share my charity shop find: 12 Chalet School books, in lovely condition, in my favourite style. I already have some of these, but I had to buy them all...

kirriemummy Omg omg omg!!!! That's amazing!!! 8y
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Verity
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Not the right book (couldn't find leader in... In the database) but I don't think I've read this Chalet School before - which is surprising to me!