When you read, you enter The Land of Enchantment.
The Land of Enchantment Norman Rockwell (1934) is a large canvas belonging to the New Rochelle Public Library. The painting, depicts romantic figures drifting over two reclining children reading storybooks. Around the border of the painting are the names of storybook characters: Little Red Riding Hood, Uncas Last of the Mohicans, Aladdin, The Jester, Knights of the Round Table, Old King Cole, Robin Hood of Sherwood Forest, Rip Van Winkle, Hiawatha, The Bluebird, Long John Silver, Romeo and Juliet, David Copperfield, Alice in Wonderland, Robinson Crusoe, Bre’er Rabbit, Old Dog Tray, Huckleberry Finn, Mary and her Little Lamb, The Seven Dwarves, Old Mother Goose and her Nursery Rhymes, and The Cat and the Fiddle.
Also, this rhyme by Byron:
Parent of golden dreams, Romance!
Auspicious queen of childish joys,
Who lead’st along, in airy dance,
Thy votive train of girls and boys.
