One Little Bag: An Amazing Journey

Picture books don't get any better than this. From its origins as a tree cut in a mill into paper, One Little Bag tells the story of a little paper bag. It's a bag that began its happy life as a lunch sack for a child's lunch, complete with a beautifully drawn red heart, and it goes on to serve many uses for its owners, with a steady accumulation of little red hearts, until it finishes off its life to contain a little tree set in the ground as a memorial to a grandfather. A lovely, lovely story with Henry Cole's classically beautiful illustrations.