“It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.” (Arthur Conan Doyle). Here you’ll find my thoughts on what books would be perfect for your home library and why.
Many stories are centred around a man’s quest to search for some philosophical truth about our existence. Few stories, however, are as compelling as “The Bee-man of Orn” (by Candlewick […]
“The Silent Child” (its Russian edition “Молчаливое дитя” shown here) is a book that made my jaw drop. I have over a thousand children’s books in my home library and
Along with “Les Misérables”, “Notre-Dame de Paris” (in some translations known as “The Hunchback of Notre-Dame”) is the most famous novel penned by the French poet, author and playwriter Victor
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Every now and again I am asked about ways to inspire the love of reading in energetic toddlers when settling down with a book is the last thing they want
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“The Taming of the Shrew” published by Rech in 2018 (@rechbooks) includes more than 60 chromolithographs by Yuri Gershkovich, an award-winning Soviet artist who illustrated more than 250 books. It
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