The Book Of Lost Things

This book is dedicated to an adult, Jennifer Ridyard,

and to Cameron and Alistair Ridyard, who will be

adults all too soon.

For in every adult dwells the child that was, and in

every child lies the adult that will be.

Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales

told to me in my childhood than in the

truth that is taught by life.

—FRIEDRICH SCHILLER (1759–1805)

Everything you can imagine is real.

—PABLO PICASSO (1881–1973)