Light

Getting back very late from work most evenings this week and feeling rather too frazzled, though happily so, to do much reading, I've found myself picking an old favourite off the shelves to easily escape into. In fact, in many ways Colin Thompson's picture book The Paradise Garden (a note parfect birthday present from Karen some years back) is all about escaping and, possibly, dealing with what happens when you get back.

Thompson has a genius for packing pages with the sort of beguiling detail that means you're so busy just noticing it all that there's no time to leave - you just get yourself gloriously lost. I'm puzzled as to why I've only got one of his books and really must track down some of the others. In the meantime his excellent home page can supplement the delights of Peter's paradise.