Rating: 5/5
Review:
A delight
I think The Child That Books Built lives up to its
reputation; it is readable, evocative, funny in places and extremely insightful
about the activity of reading itself and the effects it may have.
This is more than a memoir of childhood reading. Spufford does tell us about how he learned to
read and became an obsessive bookworm, but there is also a lot of erudite and
very interesting stuff about developmental psychology, philosophy and so on and
the light they may (or sometimes may not) shed on children and reading. I found the whole thing fascinating and
engrossing, and the prose is beautiful.
I think anyone who enjoys reading and can remember (or wants
to be reminded) of the pleasures of being read to and then learning to read
with the wonderful worlds which opened up for us would enjoy this book. Very warmly recommended.
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