My Lockdown Books – Page 7 – Pictures and Conversations

My Lockdown Books: Five

I read the Katy books by Susan Coolidge when I was a child. I have a vague idea that I also saw a BBC adaptation…

As a teenager I collected Bodley Head career novels. I had loads; they were easy to find. And then, in one of our moves, I…

My choice today is all about the illustrations. Around the World in Eighty Days has been published in many editions since Jules Verne wrote it…

Today's book is Indigo's Star by Hilary McKay, one of the Casson family series. This was the first one I read and I enjoyed it…

Around half of the books I own in hard copy (so about 1000) were published for children and teenagers. They're an odd mixture of the…