After discovering this little classic online I automatically fell in love with the cover. The innocence of the illustration evokes feelings of youth and purity, something we often don't appreciate within ourselves until its gone, only memories we scratch at to remember.
One of my favourite childhood memories was having that love of play. Having the ability to leave all pressures, well whatever pressures a 10-year-old school kid would have, and simply disappear into the jungle that was the playground. It was nothing but fun, nothing but pure youthfulness.
How easily we can watch it vanish.
Although we often trick ourselves into a satisfactory life of stresses, and responsibility, and structure, this book reminds me that for the shortest periods of our lives we once had all the sweetest freedoms in the world.
Nostalgia will trip you up like that.
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