Tim Roux's Blog – November 2009 Archive (2)

Earlier this year I read George Polley’s ‘Grandfather & The Raven’. Tonight I have read his ‘The Old Man & The Monkey’. There is one thing I have learnt about George’s books – that when you sit down to read them, you needn’t stop until they end, and probably that you cannot stop until they end either.



At one level, the two books have a similar theme – they are about an old man in Japan befriending an animal – a monkey in the… Continue

When my children were eight and five, they used to love listening to a couple of Barefoot Books CDs in the car and as they settled down to sleep – ‘Tales of Wisdom & Wonder’ narrated by Hugh Lupton and ‘Grandmothers’ Stories’ narrated by Olympia Dukakis.



Coming from Barefoot Books, these were charming multicultural tales suffused with wry observations on the world – the… Continue