Christie.
Being English and being familiar with the part of the world where the tv series was filmed, I can say I have always loved the books and tb series – my daughters as well. The only thing I think you might find difficult are the accents of some of the characters and the language while not your typical modern day swearing is colourful, which means they make the series as realistic as possible and you are dealing with farmers out in the wilds and the language is what Iwould call typical for the countryside. It would not make it R rated by any stretch, but we have words in England that are not so familiar to use here, that show up now and then. They don’t bother me at all, I grew up in a farming village and am used to it. The dialect may be more difficult, it can be frustrating if your children have trouble understanding what they are saying, but worthwhile if they can. There are a few graphic scenes of animals being born and things like that, but I cannot remember now if that was the TV series or something else I saw. We have the whole set in the house here and watched them all regularly at one time. I like the matter of factness of the series, it is realistic, it does show life and death, and people’s personalities – I would recommend watching a couple of episodes yourself and then see what you think and if you can understand them – countryside is beautiful which it is, it is one of my favourite parts of the world and I spent a lot of time up there. Anyway these are my thoughts. There are some specials that were put out apart from the tv series and we enjoyed those as well. They are all very like the books, so I think it would be fine..Linda
