While Carle is sadly no longer with us, his contribution through his books continues to be a guiding light for millions of people of the young and (not so) young variety. It was Eric Carle’s classic The Very Hungry Caterpillar, a book that hands down fanned the early flames of my now forty-plus years long love affair with reading. Yet, even before all of these literary marvels, there was another book that really floated my boat. But I reckon I was bang on schedule age-wise to fall into Judy Blume’s Are You There God, It’s Me, Margaret, and Sue Townsend’s chronicles on Adrian Mole’s life. I started hanging out in The Magic Faraway Tree with Enid Blyton quite soon after learning about the hatted cat’s antics before Roald Dahl introduced me to The BFG.Īs with many 70s-born girls, I graduated to Flowers in the Attic courtesy of Virginia Andrews a touch earlier than the author probably intended. Ah, I loved them even though I’m, weirdly, not a fan of audiobooks these days. Seuss introduced me to his Cat in the Hat and Green Eggs and Ham, the illustrated hardcopies my mum bought me as a kid often accompanied by a cassette tape (remember those?) with a reading of the book. Original 18th century illustration from The Smithsonian on rawpixel
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