The Notebook - A History of Thinking on Paper Grant Snider Range By looking at the maps

By looking at the maps

including sixty characters and locations from Derbyshire and Hampshire to Lyme Regis and Bath

greetings cards

This classic first edition artwork created by Edward Ardizzone is still used on modern editions of this wonderful 1963 novel (although sadly the book costs a bit more than 3 shillings now)

Suitable for ages 12+

The Notebook - A History of Thinking on Paper Grant Snider Range By looking at the mapsIf you are partial to pen and paper, you will enjoy this fascinating history of the humble notebook the indispensable tool of writers, artists, scientists, inventors and great minds, whose jottings, scribblings and sketches have shaped the modern world. Roland Allen traces the story of the notebook from medieval Florentine accounts ledgers and Leonardo's sketches and studies, to Darwin's Theory of Evolution in tiny pocketbooks and scrappy exercise