This double-page spread is a triumph. At their party Grace and Orlando receive their guests from the stage of a toy theatre. In the bottom right corner is a table with a label bearing the legend ‘Put presents here, please’. Among the gifts are a boxed-set of fish knives and forks, a pair of Staffordshire ‘Highland’ figures re-imagined as cats, and a pair of mouse-traps! Hale excelled at filling out the reader’s experience with such delightful discoveries. (https://clivehicksjenkins.wordpress.com/2010/10/06/kathleen-and-orlando/)