Bookish puzzles

There’s a lot to be said when two art forms come together in a way that makes you smile and brings back happy memories of childhood. I love a good book cover and find that as a child I have strong memories of my favourite ones.  I had a bookcase stuffed with books but I would ensure my favourite ones stood facing me. The pictures on them made their way into my dreams and I was convinced that after I’d gone to sleep, the characters from one book would pop into another to make more friends and tell each other stories.

I’ve kept many of my childhood favourites but when I wandered into Waterstones recently, something caught my eye that wasn’t a book – it was a jigsaw of one. Then I saw another and another, and before I knew it, I’d bought the series and couldn’t wait to rebuild my childhood memories. And it was like spending an afternoon with old friends:

I plagued my mother for the same trousers as that cat (never got them but did get a red cloak like Little Red Riding Hood which I barely took off.  I believed in the elves, was fearful of the wolf in the woods but would love to climb trees so if I  ever did meet him, I could escape. Ah the adventures I had because of these books. The only time mother objected was when she couldn’t find a complete pair of shoes as I was in my Cinderella phase and had deposited single shoes all over the house.

So these pictures brought back many happy memories and so on this National Puzzle Day, I wanted to share them with you book lovers in the hope you might like to see them and even buy one or two for yourself.

Book covers now still capture my imagination and I have my favourites so it would be just as magical now to recreate the covers of The Night Circus or the upcoming The ToyMakers by Robert Dinsdale

But for now, with these puzzles I have recreated and assembled some of the most magical pieces of my childhood