5th December
Today’s reading is from “A Traveller in Time” by Alison Uttley. This story is a classic children’s book which combines fantasy with a fascinating glimpse of history in the time of Elizabeth I of England and Mary Queen of Scots. Penelope slips from the twentieth century to the sixteenth and finds herself part of a household that supports Mary, not Elizabeth. So, there is not only the tension generated by historical events but also the reader is full of concern for Penelope and what will happen to her. Will she be able to return to her own time or will she be trapped in another very distant period?
You’ll have to read the book to find out! (The BBC made a children’s series of this in 1978 but it seems to be unavailable.)
