Perspective: Tearing a Leaf Out of Someone Else's Book
Birmingham Post › January 31, 2005
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Whenever I dive into my bag or pockets at this time of year, out comes a flurry of torn newspaper bits - all collected over the New Year period to help me spend my Christmas book tokens. Or to be more accurate, my son's.
His various aunts and uncles, godmothers and godfathers are keen to encourage his (or is it my?) literary aspirations and knowing, because told by fondly optimistic parents, that he reads a lot, play safe and go for book tokens. What they don't appreciate is that some where along the line, it is not so much literacy skills he has acquired, but more negotiation skills and he manages to inveigle me into exchanging the tokens for hard currency - far more use in the 'Games' section at HMV.See the full content of this document
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Perspective: Tearing a Leaf Out of Someone Else's Book
I am left with the jolly Father Christmas card and uncompromising 'Book' printed over the voucher.
I used to think ...See the full content of this document
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