'Shawni ranged from enthralled to terrified'

"The kids had spent a year on the project"

One of the pleasures of having the littley's with us in France was finding special places, shows and exhibitions geared for children. I remember loving it all as much as they did.

I see from this extract of one of my letters sent to Mom after our boating holiday on the Charente in the June of 1987, that we went to a marionette show at a 'chapelle' in Saintes, which is in the Charente -Maritime province.

Each young boy had made a puppet as an art project, then a story was written around the puppets. What a creative idea, will let Inel know as an idea for her school too.



So 'Barry was wide-eyed, Shawni ranged from enthralled to terrified, especially when the narrator has a bad dream and life-size, weird looking puppets come on stage."