Does anybody recognise this book?
"And a recollection of trying to recall, in other years, a book I read as a child: somewhere, a warm kitchen scene where spices were special and rare, and had to be used carefully because the spice seller wouldn’t be coming to the house for another year. I can’t remember any more than this (how can I possibly hope to recover this book when this is all I can remember of it?), but the kitchen had something of the quality of Marmaduke Scarlett’s kitchen in The Little White Horse. I guess it's too much to hope this rings a bell with anyone?"
If it does, do be a petal and click over to Stephanie's, and tell her what it is. If it doesn't, go and have a read of her lovely posts about music, spice and summer anyway.
I don't know the book but the post brought back a memory for me. I remember having a book about a rabbit called Pookie, a flying rabbit. I can't remember what happened to it but years later I saw it in a bookshop and the whole story came back to me. I bought it and its companions and still have them. It had a happy ending and I did't sob like I did every time I had to read 'The Velveteen Rabbit'. Sorry to be so off topic but memories you know.
ReplyDeleteI remember the Pookie books. The one with Jack Frost in it freaked me out big-time.
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