Child that Books Built

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ISBN: 9780571346790

Products specifications

Attribute name	Attribute value
Author	Spufford, Francis (author)
Pub Date	04/10/2018
Binding	Paperback
Pages	224

Publisher: FABER AND FABER LTD

Availability: Out of Stock

A memoir about how, what and why we read as children.' Nick Hornby, Guardian Books of the Year 'Parents, non-parents, ex-children, anyone who reads or ever read children's books - read this.

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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.