A Child of Books Allen Mason Ward The Asian crisis has sparked

The Asian crisis has sparked a thoroughgoing reappraisal of current international financial norms

and reflecting current best practice

Cowen sees it as a glass half-full with the stirrings of cultural brilliance

Eberhard Scheiffele

A Child of Books Allen Mason Ward The Asian crisis has sparkedI am a child of books. I come from a world of stories. A little girl sails her raft across a sea of words, arriving at the house of a small boy. She invites him to go away with her on an adventure into the world of stories where, with only a little imagination, anything at all can happen. Irresistibly engaging characters by Oliver Jeffers set sail and chart their way through Sam Winston's fascinating typographical landscapes in this extraordinary ode