A feast for any lover of English children\'s books.
This new edition features the stunning art by Mark Lang, and the authors\' afterword, written thirty years after the book was first released..
How the Heather Looks has been called \'the book most often stolen by retiring children\'s librarians.
As Emily Dickinson says, even if we have never seen a moor, we can still imagine how the Heather looks.
While we can\'t all make the journey ourselves, we can let Joan Bodger take us along.
While not all their quests end in victory, like any marvelous story, how they get there is what matters.
Join their adventures, from sleeping in a wagon to messing about in boats on the Thames.
Milne herself shows the way to that enchanted place on the top of the Forest [where] a little boy and his Bear will always be playing.
And in Winnie the Pooh Country Mrs.
In the Lake District, the farm where Jemima Puddle-duck laid her eggs.
They discover the countryside that inspired Caldecott\'s illustrations in Whitworth.
In Edinburgh, they stand outside the childhood home of Robert Louis Stevenson.
Come along and see for yourself the people and places behind the stories we love.
There, they sought to discover the lands they knew from their beloved children\'s books. - Christian Herald Over sixty years ago, Joan Bodger, her husband, and their two children traveled to the UK for the adventure of a lifetime.
A feast for any lover of English children\'s books
