The child that books built
Subtitle: a life in reading
By: Francis Spufford.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
Subjects: Spufford, Francis, 1964- -- Books and reading.; Children -- Books and reading -- Great Britain.; Teenagers -- Books and reading -- Great Britain.; Books and reading -- Psychological aspects.; Children's literature -- Psychological aspects.; Young adult literature -- Psychological aspects.; Fiction -- Psychological aspects.
Description: "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.
Notes: Originally published: London : Faber and Faber, 2002.