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'Anyone who reads or ever read children's books - read this. It's a joy.' Irish Times
'Exhilarating.' New York Times Book Review
'Sublime.' Peter Ackroyd, The Times

** An Evening Standard, Daily Telegraph, Independent, Guardian and Irish Times Book of the Year. **

What would you find if you went back and re-read your favourite books from childhood?

In The Child That Books Built Francis Spufford revisits all those childhood obsessions: fairy tales; Where the Wild Things Are; The Lord of the Rings; The Chronicles of Narnia; Little House on the Prairie; The Wind in the Willows; The Earthsea Trilogy and more. In these treasured tales Francis Spufford discovers both delight and sadness - the thrill as worlds of imagination opened up before him mixed with the memories of a boy who retreated into books when faced with a family tragedy.

The Child that Books Built: 'A memoir about how and why we read as children.' NICK HORNBY

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'Anyone who reads or ever read children's books - read this. It's a joy.' Irish Times 'Exhilarating.' New York Times... Read more

    Publisher: Faber & Faber
    Publication Date: 04/10/2018
    ISBN13: 9780571346790, 978-0571346790
    ISBN10: 0571346790

    Number of Pages: 224

    Non Fiction , ELT & Literary Studies , Education

    Description

    'Anyone who reads or ever read children's books - read this. It's a joy.' Irish Times
    'Exhilarating.' New York Times Book Review
    'Sublime.' Peter Ackroyd, The Times

    ** An Evening Standard, Daily Telegraph, Independent, Guardian and Irish Times Book of the Year. **

    What would you find if you went back and re-read your favourite books from childhood?

    In The Child That Books Built Francis Spufford revisits all those childhood obsessions: fairy tales; Where the Wild Things Are; The Lord of the Rings; The Chronicles of Narnia; Little House on the Prairie; The Wind in the Willows; The Earthsea Trilogy and more. In these treasured tales Francis Spufford discovers both delight and sadness - the thrill as worlds of imagination opened up before him mixed with the memories of a boy who retreated into books when faced with a family tragedy.

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