![]() ![]() ![]() But the truth is that I am a long way from living in a three-storey townhouse in London, taking day trips to the coast in my Volvo with my two children. Sometimes, during my dark days of early parenting, I used to stare at the illustrations of mothers in lemon-yellow jumpers and low-heeled sandals and feel like someone was pouring warm honey right into my veins. But choosing books that were popular in the 1980s and 1990s (in my case) doesn’t necessarily represent or serve modern life. For comfort, for entertainment, for nostalgia and, somewhere along the line, to enthuse our children about books in the way we were once enthused. When I became a parent, I learnt just how much we turn to the books of our own childhoods when reading to children and babies. And so, my views about what we do with books written in another era are up in the air. ![]()
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