I shall never have a bath again," I said. "Just dont have one too often," my grandmother said. "Once a month is quite enough for a sensible child." It was at times like these that I loved my grandmother more than ever.

And don’t worry about the bits you can’t understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.

If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

Hooray!" said the Chief of the Army. "Let's blow everyone up! Bang-bang! Bang-bang!

Rainbow drops - suck them and you can spit in six different colours.

Oh where, oh where had Snow White gone? She'd found it easy, being pretty To hitch a ride into the city.

I was observing her closely as I talked, and after a while I began to get the impression that she was not, in fact, quite so merry and smiling a girl as I had been led to believe at first. She seemed to be coiled in herself, as though with a secret she was jealously guarding. The deep-blue eyes moved too quickly about the room, never settling or resting on one thing for more than a moment; and over all her face, though so faint that they might not even have been there, those small downward lines of sorrow.