There's nothing we'd rather do than curl up with a good book this rather dull and drizzly 📚 Trying hard to imagine ourselves in 'A Day at the Beach', with the warmth of the sun, the sound of the sea and the feel of the sand between our toes...wish you were here!

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Not much of a market these days for dolls’ bedsteads. Fab images from William Darton’s 1820 Cries of London, depicting itinerant tradesmen advertising their wares in music and rhyme.

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Learn about Ralph McQuarrie's iconic illustration for the first Star Wars novel ever published.

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Celebrate and take some time to settle down with a good book. The wonderful Beatrix Potter wrote 23 tales; if you haven't already why not have a read of the most famous of them all, The Tale of Peter Rabbit.

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Charles Scarburgh goes one better and ostentatiously displays an open anatomy book alongside symbols of his astronomical, mathematical, mechanical and classical learning. https://t.co/3f40qqfAvl

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Almost missed the last day of The Search for Delicious by Natalie Babbit.

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She had no need to ask why he had come. She knew as certainly as if he had told her that he was here to be where she was. ~Leo Tolstoy

Tadahiro Uesugi’s https://t.co/yCDhgMhlec

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Sharing with you the final illustration for cover of the book Maria the Wanted by . I'm so glad of the result ! So glad to have been part of the adventure 😀
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The hardest part about growing up is letting go of what you were used to, and moving on with something you're not. ~Kamari aka Lyrikal Prada

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“If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.”
- Roald Dahl

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