Wisden Cricketers' Almanack often someone "with a literary reputation first and a separate enthusiasm for cricket". The first such reviewer was J. L. Carr, and others have included Sebastian Faulks (1997) and Leslie Thomas (1998). An award for the Wisden Book of the Year was inaugurated in the 2003 edition. The winners have been: This section contains fixtures for the forthcoming international and English domestic season, the international schedule for the upcoming seven years and the Index of Unusual Occurrences featuring quirky cricketing stories. A selection from recent years includes: Rabbit burns down pavilion; Hot-air balloons stop play; Cricketers arrested for dancing naked;
A Child Is Born (book) that the book was so culturally influential as to have mediated and to some extent determined the way pregnant women understand their own pregnancies. Images from the book were sent into space aboard the "Voyager 1" and "Voyager 2" space probes. The American Library Association regards it, alongside "Gray's Anatomy", as a core medical reference work for libraries. The book was often cited as presenting the first images of a live fetus "in utero". In fact, Geraldine Flanagan's "The First Nine Months Of Life" had in 1962 compiled a similar set of fetal images from medical archives. The images played