WHAT I TREASURE

My big red bird book

By Sharon Pinner

For more than 40 years, my treasured item existed only as a memory. But as soon as I opened the red book that arrived after an internet hunt through secondhand booksellers, I knew it was the one. It's a reference book, The Oxford Book Of Birds. It's not a story book of mystery, escapism or wizardry – but it does contain magic. I first borrowed it from Leagrave Library in Luton. It was 1976 and I was nine. I'd missed my first chance of taking the book home the week before – I'd just picked it up and was flicking through it when a small child toddled over, whisked it out of my grasp and wandered back to a parent. I was too shy to ask for it back. I'd seen…

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The Simple Things (Digital) - 1 Issue, April 2024

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