• astronomer
• audiobook reader
• calligrapher
• cats rescuer
• constellations marker
• fireworks photographer
• hot air balloon pilot
• kindergarten teacher
• mother
• pâtissier (specialise in anything chocolate & cheese)
• pirate
• philosopher
• reference librarian (virtual)
• socks designer
• translator at the geneva
• waitress at a french restaurant

• absence of heat
• barking dogs
• dinosaur for an internet connection
• instant mushroom soup
• late mornings
• meowing cats
• mum at the door
• saying goodbyes never hellos
• white noise

• animals for companions
• attic
• bay windows
• creaky floorboards
• floor-to-ceiling bookshelves
• french doors
• garden gnomes
• glass jars
• gramophones
• hedges (no fences)
• lanterns
• little pots of flowers by the windows
• little hideouts
• old suitcases
• old gas lamps
• outdoor hammock
• pantry room
• pocketsized garden
• shoe boxes
• swings
• trees (and treehouses)

• Anastasia (1997)
• Anne of Green Gables (1985)
• Amélie (2001)
• Beauty and the Beast (1991)
• Bright Star (2009)
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
• Chronicles of Narnia, the
  • The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005)
  • Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010)
• Coraline (2009)
• Finding Nemo (2003)
• Harry Potter and ...
  • the Sorcerer's Stone (2001)
  • the Half-Blood Prince (2009)
• Juno (2007)
• Lion King, the (1994)
• Little Women (1994)
• Lord of the Rings, the

• blue bulb & pink Minnie Mouse lamp
• blunt pencils
• boy suspenders
• cloth swing
• drawings of carrots on the wall
• Enid Blyton books
• Nancy Drew books
• one beloved crippled cat named Mimi
• pink bunny with one eye
• Raphael the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle stuffed toy
• red gardening boots
• ribbons of various colours
• stethoscope
• surgeon teddy
• video cassettes & player
  • Road Runner & Wild E. Coyote
  • Looney Tunes cartoons, basically
• watercolour paints
• yellow raincoat

• Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
• C. S. Lewis
• Charles Simic
• Charlotte Brontë
• Enid Blyton
• J. K. Rowling
• J. R. R. Tolkien
• Jane Austen
• Joan G. Robinson
• John Keats
• Kresley Cole
• Kristy Bowen
• Kurt Vonnegut
• Leonard Cohen
• L. M. Montgomery
• Lisa Kleypas
• Louisa May Alcott
• Margaret Atwood
• Neil Gaiman
• Nicole Krauss
• Pablo Neruda

• bed
• Cair Paravel in the Golden Era
• cinemas
• bookshops
• Hogwarts
• journal
• by the lampposts
• Lantern Waste
• libraries & museums
• planetariums
• seashores
• Shire

Female

• Alma
• Carrington
• Clementine
• Coraline
• Deirdre
• Emmeline (Emma, Em for short)
• Esme
• Georgie
• Hermia
• Isobel (other variants: Isabel, Isabelle, Isabella)
• Leah
• Liesel (other variants: Liesl, Elisabeth)
• Louise
• Lucille
• Tallulah
• Theodosia (Daisy for short)
• Penelope
• Sophie

• Christchurch
• Cornwall
• Florence
• New Orleans
• Paris

• befriend those with the callused hands
• breathe on papers
• breathe in the scent of papers lest you forget what the first time was like
• bring your books to bed
• consult our old friends the dictionaries
• every printed item is a keepsake
• have a cup of hot tea, perhaps more
• hide in bookshops & libraries
• immortalise memories out of the fleeting on papers
• gaze at the night skies
• greet all critters
• inhale words when you feel most absent & silent
• keep your hands warm
• think up names

• This is a Photograph of Me , Margaret Atwood
• Variation on the Word Sleep , Margaret Atwood
• You Begin , Margaret Atwood
• Night Mail , W. H. Auden
• Auguries of Innocence , William Blake
• an explanation for wednesday , Kristy Bowen
• Boat, a , Richard Brautigan
• I Live in the Twentieth Century , Richard Brautigan
• Oh Yes , Charles Bukowski
• Beneath My Hands , Leonard Cohen
• Osso Bucco , Billy Collins
• Love Poem, a , Jamison T. Crabtree
• Inside My Head , Robert Creeley
• After a Hundred Years , Emily Dickinson
• Happenstance , Rita Dove
• Elegy , Carolyn Forche
• She Didn't Mean to Do It , Daisy Fried
• Cancellation , Erich Fried
• Perhaps , Erich Fried
• Mending Wall , Robert Frost
• WildTendrils , Caroline Grace

• Aragorn
• Beast
• Caspian X
• Faramir
• Gilbert Blythe
• Hardy Cates
• Jack Travis
• Klaus Baudelaire
• Little Prince
• Mr Bingley
• Mr Knightley
• Peter Pevensie
• Reepicheep
• Remus Lupin
• Rhage
• Ron Weasley

• Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
• Anne of Green Gables series, L. M. Montgomery
• Bell Jar, the, Sylvia Plath
• Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut
• Centuries of Stories, Wendy Cooling (ed.)
• Chronicles of Narnia, the, series, C. S. Lewis
• Coraline, Neil Gaiman
• Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody, the, Will Cuppy
• Faraway Tree, the, Enid Blyton
• Fragile Things, Neil Gaiman
• Graveyard Book, the, Neil Gaiman
• Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, J. K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J. K. Rowling
• History of Love, the, Nicole Krauss
• Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë