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Hello, welcome with me today on a good read of the journalist and novelist Moni Mosein and the educator and author Javez Finn.

Javez has been a teacher, a school's inspector, an educational consultant and a professor of education. His writing ranges

from academic texts through to poetry, but he's probably best known for his autobiographical novels,

including the other side of the dale, the heart of the dales, and his most recent last

year's trouble at the Little Village School. The first book, Jervais, remembers, reading, is the

selfish giant. That's the Oscar Wilde story, I assume. It is, and it's the most beautifully,

simply written, lyrical story. It's wonderful.

Moni Moseyn,

you say that at your convent school in Lahore,

the first book you managed to read on your own was something called Old Dog Tom.

And I think that that was a beacon reader.

Is that right?

I remember a dog on the cover

cut up into five bits.

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