Counting Stars - David Almond

"She started with The Universe. Then she wrote The Galaxy, The Solar System, The Earth, Europe, England, Felling, Our House, The Kitchen, The White Chair With A Hundred Holes Like Stars, then her name, Margaret, and she paused. 'What's in the middle of me?' she said." Splosh. There you are, in the middle of David Almond's world. Those are the first words of the first story in his collection Counting Stars, and I do love them. They make me think of so many things: of Almond's world, of the ways of children, of the little wicker chair that was my chair when I was little - they have a childish, gentle rhythm which eases me into ...  Read the complete review