My favorite book as a child was a book called The Giant Jam Sandwich and it’s illustrated by John Vernon Lord, who sort of wrote the concepts and somebody else put this rhyme together. So it’s all about this small village in in Sussex — where I come from — and the town’s invaded.
The village is invaded by a million wasps and all the villagers meet in the town hall and they decide on this plan to get rid of the wasps and they make this huge jam sandwich where they put loads of cookers in a big brick shed and they bake this huge loaf of bread, make a jam sandwich and then they trap all these wasps in it.
But it’s all intricate, little illustrations and it’s just very funny and it rhymed. And there’s lots of little running stories going through it. So there’s these three little people being chased by wasps throughout the whole book and you see them going over the hills in the background with their little wasp swatters. And it’s really, really great. Actually, my daughter really likes that book, too.
