Books to stroke and sigh over…
 

The first is The Black Apple’s Paper Doll primer by Emily Winfield Martin: ethereal, beautifully created characters…

 

and their exquisite clothes. To cut out or keep? What a DILEMMA.

 

The second book is a one off and I own the only copy. I’m a devoted (ok, obsessive) fan of Gwnedd Rae; her stories about the little bear Mary Plain – still around, but only just – were an essential part of my childhood and I have them all. But I didn’t have this book, a novel Leap Year Born, and it seems it’s disappeared…

 

 

so this copy has been all typed up and bound, especially for me! What a lucky bean I am.