Reading (and being read to) helps your children understand the world around them, and eases them into school, says Mark Evans, and now one bookshop is helping with age-appropriate reading lists

You know you were born in a different era when you look at wallpaper and think not so much of feature walls but of schoolbooks.

A low-key, though not unsatisfactory, adaptation of Dodie Smith's novel … made as a film which looks more like a TV drama.