TY  - BOOK
AU  - Spufford,Francis
TI  - The child that books built: a life in reading 
SN  - 0312421842
AV  - Z1037.A1 S74 2003
U1  - 028.550942 23
PY  - 2003///
CY  - New York
PB  - Picador
KW  - Spufford, Francis,
KW  - Children
KW  - Books and reading
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Teenagers
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Children's literature
KW  - Young adult literature
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Autobiographies
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Originally published: London : Faber and Faber, 2002; Confessions of an English fiction eater -- The forest -- The island -- The town -- The hole
N2  - 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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