the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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R. M. Ballantyne : Fighting the Flames: A Tale of the London Fire Brigade

'Every child was given a little volume called King Edward's Realm, bound in imitation crimson leather, which I found slow going. The fate of books is strange. Perhaps it would be hard to get a copy of it now though an immense number must have been distributed through infant Britain. As for reading, there was Little Folks, the Boy's Own Paper, The Children of the New Forest, Fighting the Flames, and plenty besides; but the book appetite grew later.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edmund Blunden      Print: Book

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