Goodreads asked Colin Greenland:

If you could travel to any fictional book world, where would you go and what would you do there?

Colin Greenland I'd go at once to the village of Nutwood, so perfectly and generously imagined by the great Alfred Bestall. Of course I'd like to meet Rupert Bear, though I rather feel I have, many times over the years, in the persons of the enquiring and adventurous young sons of friends and neighbours, though few of them are as scrupulously well-behaved as Rupert. Even more, I'd like to see his home, the quintessence of rural England, yet the gateway to countless other realms – the South Seas, Imperial China, the bottom of the sea and the aerial Kingdom of the Birds, the subterranean haunts of the various Imps and the Ice Palace of King Frost. From Nutwood, it seems, you can get to any and all of these with remarkable speed and ease, see all the marvels they hold, and still be home in time for tea.

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