Today is a two-lovely day! Hurrah for days of multiple lovely!
The second lovely on this most lovely of sunny Saturdays (bah to the weather reporter people who said it would rain), is Animalia.
Of course, Animalia is not new in its loveliness, but it's being-only-two-dollars-with-the-local-newspaper-ness only just happened today.
I spent many, many hours as a young Cackle poring over this most gorgeous of books, as well as my other favourite, The Eleventh Hour. I simply can't wait to share it with Tiger.
Hurrah to the newspaper people for making children's books front-page news. Hurrah to the newspaper people for making them affordable. Hurrah to them for encouraging reading, for making it important. For putting Graeme Base on the cover instead of robberies or car crashes or warring or petrol prices.
Reading is important. Books are important. They take us away from the bad stuff, to someplace more wondrous. They rescue us. They enlighten us. They make the world seem all the more magical. And lovely.
~ Love, Miss Cackle
1 comments:
A fantastic initiative, well done to our local newspaper. My mum is collecting a set for my girls.
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