The child that books built
a life in reading
1st ed.
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Publication
2002 - Metropolitan Books, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
53,250 words, Guess
Page Count
213 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivechildthatbooksbu00spuf
- Internet Archivechildthatbooksbu0000spuf
- ISBN-100805072152
- ISBN-139780805072150
- LibraryThing5963
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- Library of Congress Control Number2002067834
- OCLC Control Number50034806
- Better World Books9780805072150
- Open LibraryOL3568013M
Classifications
- DDC028.5/5/0942
- LCCZ1037.A1 S74 2002
- LCCZ1037.A1S74 2002
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.
First Sentence
"I can always tell when you're reading somewhere in the house," my mother used to say.
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