Reading of the death of Allan Ahlberg this afternoon I reminded of that period in my career that was in some ways dominated, happily so, by the enchantment of a number of great writers for young readers. I never actually taught anything by the Ahlbergs but was bowled over by the brilliance of The Jolly Postman and that got me thinking of a series of drop-dead classics by Leon Garfield, Philippa Pearce, Robert Westall, Penelope Lively, Joan Aiken, Jan Mark and Jan Needle, to list a quick seven (which was my response to the obituary.)
Of course, you can't go back, can you? Except you can: through the magic of great story-telling.
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