The child that books built : a life in reading / Francis Spufford.

By:

Spufford, Francis, 1964- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York : Picador, 2003Edition: First Picador editionDescription: 213 pages ; 22 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0312421842
9780312421847

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Autobiographies.

Additional physical formats: No titleDDC classification:

028.550942 23

LOC classification:

Z1037.A1 S74 2003

Contents:

Confessions of an English fiction eater -- The forest -- The island -- The town -- The hole.

Summary: 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.

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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.

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