'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

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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• Biography & True AccountsArts & LiteratureAuthors
• NonfictionChildren's Nonfiction

• Publication Date: December 22, 2010
• Text-to-Speech: Disabled
• Lending: Disabled
• Print Length: 226 Pages
• File Size: 16 KB