Library Marginalia

This morning I started David Mitchell's novel Black Swan Green—seems quite promising, and it's come highly recommended. A few pages in, I found the following annotation, evidently added by a reader somewhat younger than Mitchell's 12–year–old narrator. I'm actually kind of a collecter of library-book marginalia, so I was rather pleased, and fired up the scanner. It reminded of some similar Kindergrafitti from German Art from Beckman to Richter. In the latter, a half-dozen spreads from the "about the artists" section had been annotated, the young Kunstkritik generally starting from the faces and working outwards.