3 1/2 stars. Enjoyable tales of village life in mid-50s England. Try to read a paper copy as the ebook is full of errors! ( )

Village Diary by Miss Read is the second book in her Fairacre series. Fictionally written by the village school mistress, this volume follows a monthly schedule as Miss Read writes in her diary an account of village and school life. Opening in January and closing in December, we are treated to sketches of various residents, descriptions of nature and gardens, general village affairs and day to day life at the two room schoolhouse.

Set in a beautiful rural location, these books are timeless and charming. I am slowly working my way through the Fairacre series and I seize these books whenever I feel the need for a comfort read as these books never fail to transport me to a kinder, gentler world. ( )

The Village Diary was divided into 12 chapters, each with the appropriate activities for the season. I see that even then, teachers, although getting 8 weeks off, still worked most of that time preparing for the next year! 258 pages ( )

Lovely sweet read. Nice bedtime stories. Nothing really bad ever happens. Scattered giggles. Nice gentle characters. ( )

In this second in the series, the focus widens out from the schoolchildren to the rest of the village. The narrator's rosy coloured spectacles do get a bit irritating at times but as an elegy for what was then a vanishing way of life and now has probably completely gone these gentle books are very soothing. ( )