Growing up in a house full of books

Why I love my coloured-in hand-me-down copy of 'The House at Pooh Corner'

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Did you grow up in a house full of books? I did and it’s one of the best gifts I could have been given as a kid. Books filled our home: in the kitchen, there were my Mum’s cookery books complete with handwritten annotations and recipes ripped from magazines folded inside; in my Dad’s home office, there were books full of maps, cars, and his …