A Newbury man has decided to donate his late wife’s remarkable collection of 2,000 Puffin story books to a children’s museum. Paul High, an 81-year-old retired teacher who lives in Porchester Road, will give every single book – ranging from J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit to Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson – to The Story Museum in Oxford next month. His late wife Elizabeth, who died three years ago, studied English at Oxford and completed a postgraduate degree in children’s literature at Warwick before becoming a teacher alongside her husband. Paul said that she had a particular fascin…
