Musings about some of my favorite fantasy literature for young readers, comics old and new, the peculiar publishing industry, the future of books, kids today, and the writing process.
This is how British road signs say, “Keep to the right.” ---> Which nation has the more optimistic outlook on life?
<--- This is how American road signs say, “Keep to the right.”
J. L. BELL is a writer and reader of fantasy literature for children. His favorite authors include L. Frank Baum, Diana Wynne Jones, and Susan Cooper. He is an Assistant Regional Advisor in the Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators, and was the editor of Oziana, creative magazine of the International Wizard of Oz Club, from 2004 to 2010.
Living in Massachusetts, Bell also writes about the American Revolution at Boston 1775.
2 comments:
I'd have to say these signs are for two totally different things. I mean, being asked to keep to the right in the UK where you drive on the left? Is that some sort of u-turn sign perhaps? A UK sign that would be the equal of the US "keep to the right" sign would have to indicate "keep to the left." Not so?
The UK "keep left" sign is just a mirror image of the blue sign above. They both point down. I chose the rarer "keep right" icon for the parallelism.
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