True to Nature: Robert Macfarlane, Helen Macdonald and More on the Children’s Books That Inspired Them

True to nature: Robert Macfarlane, Helen Macdonald and more on the children’s books that inspired them

… none of your baby, fairy-book tinsel stuff, and they live … lives.
Detail from the Ladybird Book of Pond Life. Photograph: Sabena … bought with hoarded money and book tokens, about one a year … animals have become in picture books, especially farm animals or pets …

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