' I opened a book ....'

' I opened a book and in I strode.
Now nobody can find me.
I've left my chair, my house, my road,
My town and my world behind me.
I'm wearing the cloak......'

By Julia Donaldson

I looked at the bookshelf tonight and realised it was a visual representation of my love of reading from a very early age , with ' Kings of Space' ( first ever sci-Fi) side by side with Narnia, Lord of the Rings and a collection of African Folk Tales only ever published once. Add in Betjeman' and Eliot's poetry ( oh and of course the wonderfully humorous Jane Austen) and you have a fair selection of my ' old friends'.