I love all of your posts but you outdid yourself with this one. I am an avid (slow) reader and a late-in-life librarian - I am sure my colleagues will enjoy it as well.
Brilliant! This is why you read books mindfully; because you consider everything you read with such attention! I on the other hand who read at least 4 books a week, couldn’t tell you half an hour later what I’d just read, it just needs to pass my eyes and escape me from raging anxiety before I go to sleep.
Tom, your article really made my day. Ladybird books were wonderful. I credit them with encouraging my love of art. The illustrations were just magical. I still have a few in a cupboard. Time to dig them out and have a read, I think.
Tom, you’ve really outdone yourself here! As a New Yorker, i never had these books as a child so i thoroughly enjoyed seeing them through your eyes! So thankful for making me chuckle on a Sunday while an orange madman rages across our land. Can you send us a fox to eat him? Thanks, Cathy
Wonderful. A friend has just scoured the net to re-build her collection of these originals. Part of childhood, as you say. Really enjoyed reading this commentary!
I read these books as a kid and they scarred me - now I know why.
I haven’t laughed so hard in a long time. Thank you for that!
Thanks Barbara! Nice to know you enjoyed it. Rereading these was one of many fun parts of researching my novel 1983.
I love all of your posts but you outdid yourself with this one. I am an avid (slow) reader and a late-in-life librarian - I am sure my colleagues will enjoy it as well.
Loved this piece! I still have most of them too. Have you got The Old Woman and her Pig? Really ramps the insanity/psychedelic levels up to the max.
Thanks Estelle. That’s one of the few I haven’t got! But I remember reading it…
I must find this now.
Brilliant! This is why you read books mindfully; because you consider everything you read with such attention! I on the other hand who read at least 4 books a week, couldn’t tell you half an hour later what I’d just read, it just needs to pass my eyes and escape me from raging anxiety before I go to sleep.
What a fascinating analysis. And you are absolutely right about the way the internet is ruining reading and victim blaming about it.
Thanks Alexandra!
I loved the comment about the Boris Johnson lookalike kid. Hilarious.
Brilliant! Loved this :D
Thanks Kay!
Reading through, chin on palm, smiling like an idiot. Thankful
Thanks Patris!
I loved these books. Such great memories. Thank you
Tom, your article really made my day. Ladybird books were wonderful. I credit them with encouraging my love of art. The illustrations were just magical. I still have a few in a cupboard. Time to dig them out and have a read, I think.
Tom, you’ve really outdone yourself here! As a New Yorker, i never had these books as a child so i thoroughly enjoyed seeing them through your eyes! So thankful for making me chuckle on a Sunday while an orange madman rages across our land. Can you send us a fox to eat him? Thanks, Cathy
Will do! Thanks Cathy!
I never, ever saw the Big Bad Wolf as Pan, not before this deconstruction.
Thank you, I think.
Wonderful. A friend has just scoured the net to re-build her collection of these originals. Part of childhood, as you say. Really enjoyed reading this commentary!
can I use that image? also if I just share the link will it be accessible?
Which image do you mean? There are several. And, yes, it will be!
Done...I will read it and comment if that's okay?