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Title: The Child That Books Built: A Life in Reading
by Francis Spufford
ISBN: 0805072152
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Pub. Date: 08 October, 2002
Format: Hardcover
Volumes: 1
List Price(USD): $23.00

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Average Customer Rating: 5

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Rating: 5
Summary: one of the best books about reading as a child I've read
Comment: This is a book I wish I'd written myself, and anyone who loves children's fiction or who wants their child to read should buy it. Spufford's loves - Narnia, The Little House on the Prairie, Ursula le Guin etc will be shared by many, but few will describe so beautifully the feeling of learning to read The Hobbit, or of the way books act as "mood altering substances". The essays on individual authors are excellent, but his evocation of a chilhood sheltered by books while his sister was slowly dying of kidney illness, and how his reading changed as he grew up and out of paradise is one that will strike a chord with many.

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