'Mr Joseph Conrad, the author, writes: I don�t remember any child�s book. I don�t think I ever read any; the first book I remember distinctly is Hugo�s "Travailleurs de la Mer" which I read at the age of seven. But within the last two years I�ve participated in my son�s (age 5) course of reading, and I share his tastes � in prose, Grimm and Andersen; in verse, Lear.'
