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Title: Stories to treasure and pass on
Review: Years ago I picked up this book from a library carousel of adolescent paperbacks. I was probably making sure I'd read everything in the Roald Dahl canon, and found this treasure. I've not had a chance to read it again recently but the immense enjoyment of reading the story about the game of toy soldiers made me weep with delicious sorrow. When I, desperate to share the experience of her beautifully written story, stood in the studio door to read it aloud to my husband at the time, my voice again faltered with emotion, and we stood there, he with palette and brush abandoned, overwhelmed by its power in broad daylight.I gifted this to my nephew confined to a sickbed after an operation as well as the audiobook of McCaughrean's authorised sequel to Peter Pan. I am sure I will have occasions to come where I gift this book again and again.
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