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Francis SpuffordPublication Details
Book1st edMetropolitan Books2002Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) Z1037.A1 S74 2002 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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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. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
- Spufford, Francis, — 1964- — Books and reading
- Children — Books and reading — England — History — 20th century
- Teenagers — Books and reading — England — History — 20th century
- Books and reading — Psychological aspects
- Children’s literature — Psychological aspects
- Young adult literature — Psychological aspects
- Fiction — Psychological aspects
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- Originally published: London : Faber and Faber, 2002
- "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
Contents
- 1. Confessions of an English Fiction Eater
- 2. The Forest
- 3. The Island
- 4. The Town
- 5. The Hole
ISBN
- 0805072152
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