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SHARE Getting lost in a book is one of life’s greatest pleasures. While many stories have the ability to fuel an infinite love of reading, there will be always be one – whether it was read as a young child or young adult – that lit that initial spark, opening our eyes to the endless possibilities to be found in the world of literature. Here, ‘The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe’ – C S Lewis (1950) As a child growing up in a difficult home environment, the book that opened my eyes to the power of reading was The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe in

Last modified on Thu 18 Feb 2021 04.09 EST Winning tip: Ruby Red Shoes Goes to Paris My six-year-old daughter Daphne and I love to say au revoir to our four walls and escape to Paris with Ruby the hare in Ruby Red Shoes Goes to Paris by Kate Knapp. Along with her grandmother Babushka, Ruby samples all the delights of Paris – the Eiffel Tower, Café de Flore, markets, fountains and florists. We dream of the day when we can lie in a Parisian park eating “buttered baguettes and huge peaches” so delicious they make Ruby light-headed. Heaven! Sarah Hamilton, Norwich The Grand Canal, Venice. ...

I spent my childhood thinking that our house at the end of an Essex cul-de-sac was like Enid Blyton’s The Faraway Tree — nice and normal until you reached the top, where you could enter distant