July | This is not the post I'd planned on writing, but I have some very exciting news!

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I can remember my very first experience of reading as a child, when letters on a page suddenly swam together into words and made sense. I was six years old, and it was a comic based on the Disney movie, Robin Hood; the images had no speech bubbles, but a short paragraph beneath each one. After that, there was no stopping me; three years later I was reading Richard Adams’s Watership Down, Joy Adamson’s Born Free, Rosemary Sutcliffe’s Tristan and Iseult, M...