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The Child That Books Built: A Life in Reading
The Child That Books Built A Life in Reading
Author: Francis Spufford
A wise and tender tribute to childhood reading and the power of fiction — 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 enc...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780805072150
ISBN-10: 0805072152
Publication Date: 10/8/2002
Pages: 224
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Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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It offers an intelligent, thoughtful inquiry into how the pleasure of reading actually works.
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Disappointing.Thought I'd get a personal account of the way a boy was moved by reading, and lots of great recommendations, and I felt it just drifted into subpar psychobabble.


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