’tis the season

Happy Christmas, dear reader(s). I’m feeling festively empty-headed so will make this a pictorial post. Mum has given me a lovely 1937 edition of Lawrence of Arabia’s The Seven Pillars of Wisdom with pictures, which confirmed everything I suspected about pictures in books being a Good Thing. These photos of it open up very big

Illustrated books

When you are a kid there are a couple of huge reading milestones. The first is being able to read at all; then, after a while, there is the magnificent graduation on to ‘chapter books’ which look like grown-up books although thinner and with a huge font size; then there’s the final stage, the move