Oh, please, professor and others (Letters, 3 December)! Where and when did I ever object to fiction for “young people” diverging from a supposed norm of innocence? I take issue with prizes for literature which have the word “children” attached to them, but which seem to me to be for adults or teenagers. This should be a separate category. I liked “The Indian in the Closet”, though. Good idea. Next time it reprints…
Lynne Reid Banks
Shepperton, Middlesex
• One of our common-or-garden daffodils never lets us down (Letters, 2 December). It came out as usual on 30 November. We’d send you a photo if we weren’t digitally challenged.
Philip and Margaret Morey
Warrington, Cheshire
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