"The world is so full of a number of things,
I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings."
....Walter Louis Stevenson
As I have been going through boxes of mementos, I found the Golden Book verson of A Child's Garden of Verses, poems by Walter Louis Stevenson--one of my most loved books as a child. Some of the pages are torn and colored with crayon, but it is still one of my favorite books. (The poems were first published in England in 1885.)
As a new year begins I think back on so many of the books I enjoyed as a child and how they began my love of books and reading.
May the new year be filled with more good books!
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2026!
