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

By looking at the maps

Suitable for ages 12+

This is what happens when you let academics loose on Clement Clarke Moore's A Visit from St

look out for the innovative 'Reading Trees' to fill in - use these to map out which books to read next or to recommend

gloomy schoolrooms and weathered stone buildings of nineteenth-century England to spot Cathy and Heathcliff at Wuthering Heights

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