`I was always an avid reader so much so that `Bookworm' was one of my nicknames. My favourite books were The Little House on the Praire by Laura Ingels Wilder and The Family From One End Street by Eve Garnett. Eve Garnett illustrated and wrote this book and the illustrations were magical. The story was about children who lived in the East End of London. Their father was a dustbin man. I loved it. I also loved the books by Johanna Spyri. This I also read the Nancy Drew mysteries, the Bobsy Twins, Biggles and Buster.