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The Child that Books Built
About the book
'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.