The Child That Books Built: A Life in Reading by Francis Spufford

The Child That Books Built: A Life in Reading

Francis Spufford

224 pages first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction biography memoir challenging reflective slow-paced
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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 ...

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