I remember it was this way: School starts and goes on and on. I think I am learning to read. I have a book with big black print and a soft green cover with pale green threads running through it. The first story is of Little Red Riding Hood who set out one day to take some sweetmeats (what are sweetmeats?) to her grandmother, not knowing that a wolf had been into the house in the wood - see his open jaws, his teeth, his red tongue like flannel? - and had gobbled up grandma, had dressed himself in her clothes, and was waiting to gobble up Red Riding Hood. It seems that people in stories may or may not hear you speak to them, yet nothing you say can change the story as it is written. How can I warn Red Riding Hood? The words of the story are spread over the whole page, there is no room for me to write a warning, and if I put Watch Out Red Riding Hood at the bottom of the page or in the margin, I’m sure Red Riding Hood will not heed it, and, strange to say, I’m glad, for by the time she has reached the little house deep in the wood (why don’t they say the ‘bush’?
What do You think about Towards Another Summer (2010)?
