VULNERABLE CHILDREN WISH FOR BOOKS

Sarah Brown and Julie Gamble in Blackwells
I visited the children's department of Blackwells in Edinburgh today to buy a couple of books for looked-after and other vulnerable children in the Children's Book Tree scheme. (I'd blogged about this excellent idea here.) It wasn't easy to get there, I have to say: I slipped and slid on treacherous ice, finally falling over completely. And