Sam Leith is Literary Editor of the Spectator. He has also written extensively for the Guardian, TLS, Financial Times, Telegraph and Daily Mail, and was a judge for the 2015 Man Booker Prize. His previous books include You Talkin' To Me?: Rhetoric from Aristotle to Trump and Beyond, and Write To The Point: How to be Clear, Correct, and Persuasive on the Page. ... Read more Read less
Do you remember the first time you fell in love with a book?
'The Haunted Wood is a marvel.' Philip Pullman
The stories we read as children extend far beyond our childhoods; they are a
window into our deepest hopes, joys and anxieties. They reveal our past –
collective and individual, remembered and imagined – and invite us to dream
up different futures.
In a pioneering history of children’s literature, from the ancient world to the
present day, Sam Leith reveals the magic of our most cherished stories, and
the ways in which they have shaped and consoled entire generations.
Excavating the complex lives of beloved writers, Leith offers a humane
portrait of a genre – one acutely sensitive to its authors’ distinct contexts.
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