false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174076351m/358803.jpg 358803 4 <div>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 beloved classics as <i>The Wind in the Willows, The Little House on the Prairie, </i>and <i>The Chronicles of Narnia</i>. He recreates the excitement of discovery, writing joyfully 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.<br></div> 1422235 2002 The Child That Books Built: A Life in Reading total:75|5:12|4:19|3:23|2:15|1:6| 75 241 230 23 3 0 false false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 26 16:32:36 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 26 16:54:22 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Feb 18 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 15 08:24:16 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 18 19:38:53 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2003 Fri Dec 21 07:58:24 -0800 2007 Fri Dec 21 07:59:44 -0800 2007
Mr. Spufford not only reflects on his own reading choices as a child, but also discusses some of the psychological aspects of what children learn ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Mar 28 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 12 21:35:40 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 12 22:08:37 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Apr 06 18:08:19 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 06 18:18:15 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Fri May 15 15:46:34 -0700 2009 Fri May 15 15:49:50 -0700 2009 5 0 true false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 06 15:25:44 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 26 08:29:21 -0800 2008 Amazon.com Grace's "Child That Books Built" Book Review

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