by Francis Spufford · Faber & Faber · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780571214679
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«The Child That Books Built» is Francis Spufford's autobiographical essay, published by Faber & Faber in paperback (224 pages, in English).
The author recalls his childhood as a reader and returns to the classics that populated it (from the Narnia chronicles to The Hobbit, from Where the Wild Things Are to Little House on the Prairie) to explore how stories help understand the world and serve as refuge from a painful reality.
Published on March 17, 2003. The full title is The Child That Books Built: A Life in Reading.
For those who enjoy readers' memoirs and essays on children's and young adult literature.
Francis Spufford FRSL is an English author and writing teacher. His first novel Golden Hill received critical acclaim and numerous prizes including the Costa Book Award for First Novel, the Desmond Elliott Prize, and the Ondaatje Prize. In 2007 Spufford was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
