[AnnieK]

Originally Posted by Ammi

…yeah I don’t recall that either, I think that owning a book/buying one to read to your children was probably quite a more ‘wealthy’ specific thing than for the average working family…and I don’t imagine there were sources of free books back in the day…we did have books, which we read ourselves and which were given as birthday/Christmas gifts…but they weren’t really read to us so much as we read ourselves because that was our own story world so I think that’s how we preferred it…

We always got a book for Christmas. My mum always wrote a message inside the cover too saying when "Merry Christmas 1981, love Mum & Dad" or something like that so we knew when they were bought