Stig of the Dump
The magic of a story for children may lie in many things - the story itself, the characters, a myth, humour, evocation of a place or time, so many things. The simple beauty of it is that it may form a part of you, get beneath your skin so to speak, almost as easily as the lessons your parents teach you. And the reason is not hard to find. It is so often the first time you have encountered, in print or in real life, what it presents. The eponymous Stig is...
