Two years ago, I heard David Almond talk about a primitive quality of childhood, through which children have access to ancient powers of survival, imagination, healing, and perhaps redemption, which a
Gardening is currently fashionable and the design of this book is as good as you’d expect from DK in collaboration with the Royal Horticultural Society.
The first thing that strikes you about this title is the pictures – from the cover onwards, bold, some brash, some cartoony, others dramatic, each of the eleven stories illustrated by a different pe