This morning while I was catching up on email, there was a post on Shelf Awareness that stopped my coffee cup in midair. Quoting from Molly Flatt’s question posed on the Guardian Book Blog, it asked “What was your favorite book before you learned to read?”
And here was mine–although there were many others read aloud to me that I loved, The Saggy Baggy Elephant by Kathryn and Byron Jackson and illustrated by the inimitable Gustaf Tenggren is the one that I pored over, took to bed with me, “read” aloud from memory, and it still delights me when I see it. What was your favorite (or favourite?) pre-literate book?
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