Little Babette


 My reading of the eighth story in Ruth Manning-Sanders children's anthology "A Book of Magic Animals" (1974). This story is called Little Babette and tells of a little girl who is aided in her grinding poverty by a talking robin (not me) and a strange, shapeshifting animal.

This tale also serves as a reminder that writing a will is a thoroughly sensible idea, especially when it comes to protecting loved ones from grasping relatives or the grasping tax man.It's one more thing to add to the endless list of "stuff to complete", my own will being very out of date now.



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