view of the author’s country that I needed – a view that helped me to realise again the sensation I felt as a child when I first read Andersen. This sensation experienced in childhood in foreign fairy tales is a foretaste of that encountering of familiar things in unfamiliar guise which later is one of the joys of foreign travel.’

The Observer invited Hugh Walpole to choose the best picture-book of 1932. ‘I give the prize without hesitation to Rackham’s Hans

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