Formative early reading included Richard Scarry
and Kenneth Grahame
's The Wind in the Willows. Joanne Rowling did not care for Enid Blyton
as a young child but acquired a taste for her later...
Intertextuality and Influence
J. K. Rowling
Joanne Rowling
wrote her first story at the age of six: Rabbit, inspired by Richard Scarry
. The Seven Cursed Diamonds, also written at primary school, owed more to E. Nesbit
. She...
