Bob - I've since read remarks by one of Steinbeck's sons that he was painfully shy and actually spoke with no-one on that entire trip, all fictional recreations of what he might have said, etc. and not very well written at that. I'm not remembereing everything, but don't want to forget How Green Was My Valley and its sequels by Richard Llewellyn The Green Child by Herbert Read Lovely is the Lee and others by Robert Gibbings Peig by Peig Sayers The Islandman trans. by Robin Flower all of Hugh Lofting, many times as a child and a parent, especially 'The Twilight of Magic' William Heath Robinson's 'Adventures of Uncle Lubin' and others too many to remember
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