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An edition of The child that books built: A Life in Reading (2002)

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"To understand the thrall of fiction, Spufford goes back to his earliest encounters with books, exploring such beloved classics as The Wind in the Willows, The Little House on the Prairie, and the Narnia chronicles. He re-creates the excitement of discovery, writing joyfully of the moment when fuzzy marks on a page become words, which then reveal - a dragon.

Weaving together child development, personal reflection, and social observation, Spufford shows the force of fiction in shaping a child: how stories allow for mastery of the world and escape from pain, how they shift our boundaries of the sayable, how they stretch the chambers of our imagination."--BOOK JACKET.

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Faber
Language
English
Pages
214

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Subjects
Psychological aspects of Young adult literature, Psychological aspects of Fiction, Psychological aspects of Books and reading, Psychological aspects.., Young adult literature, Children's literature, Teenagers, Books and reading, Psychological aspects of Children's literature, Fiction, Psychological aspects, Children, History, New York Times reviewed, Children, books and reading, Youth, books and reading, Literature, psychology, Fiction, general, Children's literature, history and criticism
People
Francis Spufford (1964-)
Places
Great Britain, England
Times
20th century

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The Child That Books Built: A Life in Reading
December 1, 2003, Picador
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002
Library of Congress
Z1037.A1S74 2002

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214 p. ;
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OL19605443M
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