THE GIRL BROWNIES – ASHDOWN FOREST, ENGLAND 1919

Book 5 of 6 The Ashdown Forest Festival

The summary of this fifth book in the series is as follows:

The Girl Brownies prepare to perform their lantern adventure at Ashdown's first post-war Peace Festival. When their prized replica lantern disappears hours before the show, they spring into action - following muddy footprints (child-sized!), interrogating the village prankster, and ultimately discovering the lantern was mistakenly taken by historian Mr. Finch for his exhibit. After retrieving it, their performance becomes the festival highlight, blending storytelling with their real-life mystery-solving.

The adventure continues when Mr. Finch invites them to examine his museum's authentic lantern collection, hinting at future discoveries. Through the festival's celebrations, the girls witness their community healing from war while cementing their reputation as Ashdown's cleverest young detectives.

The initial opening credit music, "Joyful Journey", which does run to approximately 2 minutes sets the scene, so to speak, recorder, tambourine,guitar and accordion in a folk/classical and cheerful mood. The closing music, "Bloom", ends the tale on with more of the same at about 2 minutes and the same musical instruments etc. but more of an ending feel.

The story and music itself runs to just about 14 minutes and is narrated in my wife's voice, Claire, who actually was a ranger guide!

I do hope you enjoy this audiobook and let me know what you think, there are a lot more to come

Christopher Allen - At your service