That's what I feel like at the moment, as I type, arms outstretched, neck stiff, eyes staring forward. The neck brace I'll be wearing for the next five weeks has robbed me of peripheral vision, and also the ability to look down easily. I eat with the plate pushed halfway across the table, as my laptop is now, so I can see what I'm doing. So imagine me sitting, arms straight, with every second key of my ham-fisted typing the delete key. Frankenstein's monster. So where does Br

Roger the Reindeer Ken Lake 'Roger the Reindeer', in Ken and Angie Lake’s series The Diaries of Robin’s Toys, centres around illiteracy. Roger leaves home not knowing how to read or write, and this gets him into all sorts of trouble. He eventually learns to read and write, then is offered a job with Santa. The series features toys coming to life and telling their own stories to Robin and Grandad, but it took too long for Roger to come into the story, and the parallel between