Photograph: Murdo Macleod/The GuardianPhotograph: Murdo Macleod/The GuardianI was three years old, we lived in Purbrook, near Portsmouth, and if I had been remarkably good my mother would order a book at the local bookshop and a month later we would go and pick it up. I remember a children’s
Hiawatha, a beautiful edition of The Pied Piper of Hamelin illustrated by Margaret Tarrant, and an illustrated MikadoI’d learn the words of the songs without tunes: “Awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock from a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block” and so on. Gloriously morbid stuff for a three-year-old.If you’d asked me at seven or eight it would have been the Narnia books, which I found infinitely re-readable – I wanted to live in them.
I agree with him about Enid Blyton but its also true of a lot of books. I can’t stand the Narnia series by CS Lewis as an adult & there are many of Gaiman’s works that don’t work for me now either. It’s fine, people & tastes change. There are other books. 🤷♀️
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