Discovering Louis Darling

I've had an unread Beverly Cleary book on my shelf for nearly thirty years.

Henry & the Clubhouse by Beverly Cleary

Exactly, what made me pick itup yesterdayI don't know, but, by luck or fate, it was the perfect time. Now I don't mean that I needed to read a book about boy building a clubhouse (though I did enjoy the hell out of it), what I mean is that I may not have appreciated it before. A year ago the illustrations in this book wouldn't have registered. I would have flipped passed them w...