The child that books built
About this book
"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.
Details
- First published
- 2002
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Pages
- 370
- ISBN-13
- 9780805072150
- OL Work ID
- OL2706776W
Subjects
Psychological aspects of Young adult literaturePsychological aspects of FictionPsychological aspects of Books and readingPsychological aspects..Young adult literatureChildren's literatureTeenagersBooks and readingPsychological aspects of Children's literatureFictionPsychological aspectsChildrenHistoryNew York Times reviewedChildren, books and readingYouth, books and readingLiterature, psychologyFiction, general