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The Otterbury Incident is a children’s detective story based on the French film Nous les Gosses, which Cecil and Nicholas had seen in London in September 1947. Cecil adapted the story, setting it in Sherborne (which he renamed Otterbury) at the King’s School (the old name for Sherborne School). Like Sherborne, which was bombed on 30 ...
9 de ene. de 2014 · The Otterbury Incident really is a charming book. It begins strongly, with the two gangs of schoolboys from King’s School doing battle over the Otterbury Incident, a bombsite in the middle of the town. The kids show wonderful camaraderie and imagination as they play their game of war, and I thought from the start that I was going to love it.
The Otterbury Incident The new windmill series "An adaptation of the French film Nous les gosses." Author: Cecil Day Lewis: Illustrated by: Edward Ardizzone: Publisher: Viking Press, 1949: Length: 160 pages : Export Citation: BiBTeX EndNote RefMan:
7 de may. de 2023 · "The Otterbury Incident is an adaptation of the French film Nous les gosses, and I am greatly indebted to Pathéscope, Ltd., for their kind permission to use the plot of that delightful film as the starting point of my story.
22 de ago. de 2017 · The Otterbury Incident. Puffin. National Geographic Books, Aug 22, 2017 - Juvenile Fiction - 192 pages. A reissue of a much-loved adventure which has stood the test of time and is as exciting today as when it was first published nearly 70 years ago. It all begins when Nick breaks the classroom window with his football, and the Headmaster says ...
The Otterbury Incident. When a schoolboy kicks a football through the heasmaster's window, his friends decide to help raise money to replace it and unexpectedly become involved with a gang of criminals. An adaptation of the French film 'Nous les gosses' which can be seen in England under the title 'Us kids'.
The Otterbury Incident. Condition: Fair. 1961. First edition thus. 158 pages. Pictorial paper cover. A Puffin book. Illustrated by Edward Ardizzone. Pages have slight foxing, tanning and minor thumbing. A few dog-eared corners. Some pages are water stained and warped to edges, but the text is unaffected.
