The Child that Books Built

'Anyone who reads or ever read children's books – read this. It's a joy.'

Irish Times 'Exhilarating.'

New York Times Book Review 'Sublime.' Peter Ackroyd,

The Times

What would you find if you went back and re-read your favourite books from childhood?

In

The Child That Books Built Francis Spufford revisits all those childhood obsessions: fairy tales;

Where the Wild Things Are;

The Lord of the Rings;The Chronicles of Narnia;

Little House on the Prairie;

The Wind in the Willows;

The Earthsea Trilogy and more. In these treasured tales Francis Spufford discovers both delight and sadness – the thrill as worlds of imagination opened up before him mixed with the memories of a boy who retreated into books when faced with a family tragedy.