On this Mother’s Day, I wanted to share with you these few pictures of Grain d’aile, my favourite book, which my mum gave me when I was five…

Naturally, I chose this one to present to the reading club in Year 1.
It was so beautiful and must have been a big hit… so much so that it was eventually ‘borrowed’ and never returned.
I still remember how sad I felt at the time, as the book was no longer in print in this illustrated version… It was only more than 30 years later that I finally found this book again – second-hand in the same edition, the 1977 one – and wept with joy!

So here are a few extracts from this magnificent tale written by Paul Eluard for Jacqueline Duhême, who illustrated it…