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The Child that Books Built: 'A memoir about how and why we read as children.' NICK HORNBY - Softcover
Synopsis
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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Exuberant and serious, funny and sophisticated, this memoir of reading and childhood is a delight. -- Andrea Ashworth, author of Once in a House on Fire
Short, dense, allusive and ferociously bright . . . A memoir about how, what and why we read as children. -- Nick Hornby, Guardian Books of the Year
A beautifully composed and wholly original memoir, sounding the classics of children's literature, while examining the effect obsessive reading had on one bookish boy. -- David Sexton, Evening Standard
Parents, non-parents, ex-children, anyone who reads or ever read children's books -- read this. It's a joy., Irish Times
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The Child that Books Built is Francis Spufford's celebrated memoir and investigation into childhood and reading.
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- PublisherFaber & Faber
- Publication date2018
- ISBN 10 0571346790
- ISBN 13 9780571346790
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages224
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