The child that books built

By Francis Spufford

Subjects: Psychological aspects of Young adult literature, Children's literature, Teenagers, Fiction, general, Young adult literature, Books and reading, Children's literature, history and criticism, Children, books and reading, Psychological aspects, Children, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, Youth, books and reading, Psychological aspects of Children's literature, Psychological aspects of Books and reading, Psychological aspects of Fiction, History, Psychological aspects.., Literature, psychology

Description: "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.