The child that books built : a life in reading /
Spufford, Francis, 1964-
The child that books built : a life in reading / Francis Spufford. - First Picador edition. - 213 pages ; 22 cm
Originally published: London : Faber and Faber, 2002.
Confessions of an English fiction eater -- The forest -- The island -- The town -- The hole.
In this extended love letter to children's books and the wonders they perform, Francis Spufford makes a confession: books were his mother, his father, his school. Reading made him who he is. To understand the thrall of fiction, Spufford goes back to his earliest encounters with books, exploring such classics as The Wind in the Willows, The Little House on the Prairie, and The Chronicles of Narnia. He recreates the excitement of discovery, writing of the moment when fuzzy marks on a page become words. Weaving together child development, personal reflection, and social observation, Spufford shows the force of fiction in shaping a child: how stories allow for escape from pain and mastery of the world, how they shift our boundaries of the sayable, how they stretch the chambers of our imagination.
0312421842 9780312421847
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
Autobiographies.
Z1037.A1 / S74 2003
028.550942
The child that books built : a life in reading / Francis Spufford. - First Picador edition. - 213 pages ; 22 cm
Originally published: London : Faber and Faber, 2002.
Confessions of an English fiction eater -- The forest -- The island -- The town -- The hole.
In this extended love letter to children's books and the wonders they perform, Francis Spufford makes a confession: books were his mother, his father, his school. Reading made him who he is. To understand the thrall of fiction, Spufford goes back to his earliest encounters with books, exploring such classics as The Wind in the Willows, The Little House on the Prairie, and The Chronicles of Narnia. He recreates the excitement of discovery, writing of the moment when fuzzy marks on a page become words. Weaving together child development, personal reflection, and social observation, Spufford shows the force of fiction in shaping a child: how stories allow for escape from pain and mastery of the world, how they shift our boundaries of the sayable, how they stretch the chambers of our imagination.
0312421842 9780312421847
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
Autobiographies.
Z1037.A1 / S74 2003
028.550942