A recent article in The Guardian by SF Said, "Children's books are never just for children" (16 February 2015), lamented the lack of recognition of, and rewards for, children's literature, but that wasn't what struck me most about the article. Katherine Woodfine's words caught my attention: “Children’s books can have a hugely powerful effect on their readers, helping to shape and inform their view of the world, in a way that adult books rarely achieve. They’re the first liter