the-eldest-woman-on: Star Chart This illustration is from The…
Monday, November 4th, 2013
This illustration is from The Stars by H. A. Rey (the Curious George author/artist). I have a beaten-up copy that is, in a certain sense, my oldest book. I own books that are older, but of all the books I own its the one that I’ve had the longest, with a distinct memory of reading this physical copy as a young child.
It’s the original cloth-bound hardback of the first edition, published in 1962, which makes it exactly as old as I am. I remember reading it (which would have meant looking at the pictures) when I lived on Hilton Drive in Redlands. We moved from that house just after my parents divorced, so I could not have been older than four, or at most five.
I loved it then, and love it now.
Reposted from http://lies.tumblr.com/post/65998342261.
