Never Judge a Book by Its Mother

by Esmerelda Weatherwax (February 2012)

The little voice that lives at the back of my head piped up to argue with me.

That first warm afternoon she spent getting to know her class and our reading tastes, asking us what we had read for our own pleasure during the summer holiday.

And I think we will both pass on The Silence of the Lambs.

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