Bookworm
A Memoir of Childhood Reading
by Lucy Mangan
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Pub Date May 15 2018 | Archive Date May 24 2018
Random House UK, Vintage Publishing | Square Peg
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Description
The Cat in the Hat? Barbar? The Very Hungry Caterpillar? Whoever it was for you, it’s very hard to forget the vivid intensity of your first encounter with a book.
As a bespectacled young bookworm, Lucy Mangan devoured books: from early picture books, to Swallows and Amazons, Enid Blyton to Little Women, and from trashy teen romances to her first proper ‘grown-up’ novels. In Bookworm, she revisits this early enthusiasm; celebrating the enduring classics, and disinterring some forgotten treasures.
This is a love letter to the joys of childhood reading, full of enthusiasm and wit, telling the colourful story of our best-loved children's books, the extraordinary people who created them, and the thousand subtle ways they shape our lives. It also comes packed with brilliant recommendations to inspire the next generation of bookworms and set them on their way.
This impassioned book will bring the unforgettable characters of our collective childhoods back to life – prompting endless re-readings, rediscoveries, and, inevitably, fierce debate. It will also act as an invaluable guide to anyone looking to build a children’s library and wondering where to start, or where to go next.
Advance Praise
The Guardian columnist has composed an enthusiastic love letter
to childhood reading, and the classic books that have shaped many young
lives, as well as providing a resource and guide on how to build a
children’s library
Guardian
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9780224098854 |
| PRICE | CA$31.99 (CAD) |
| PAGES | 320 |
Featured Reviews
Kate W, Educator
This is both a wonderfully evocative memoir of a childhood spent (as mine was) with one's nose in a book, and a powerful argument for the power of books to expand our horizons.
Karina C, Bookseller
Well. If you, like me - and Lucy Mangan - are a bookworm, prepare to clasp this book to your heart...
In a delightful mix of book reviews, memory and memoir, Lucy revisits some of her childhood favourites, lightly sketches the history of publishing for children, reminds you of cherished books you loved as a child and introduces you to ones you wish you had read, and now will.
Insightful and snort-inducingly funny, this is the book for you if you:
Loved SVH
Look for Secret Gardens
Are Forever fans of Ralph
Check the backs of old wardrobes
Love love love...
Joanne (Jo) l, Reviewer
A wonderfully nostalgic book that i read in just one day and sent me back to memories of my own childhood as an avid reader.
The author Lucy Mangan who writes for the Guardian newspaper takes us on a journey to her childhood as a prolific reader of just about every children's book available to her. She gives a little potted history on the authors, the characters and the stories themselves aswell as a glimpse of her own childhood and how books became a big part of her life.
It was interesting to see how books have changed in the space of thirty years,for example, Enid Blyton's Famous Five series which i absolutely loved as a child but now seem tame, unreadable and very dated, and although they have had a bit of a revamp recently, they still do not resonate with this generation of young children.
The Miffy books with the little rabbit who says the most by saying nothing is still as popular today as when they were first published in 1955 and i guess the appeal is the simplistic drawings which do not date and will probably be just as popular with children in a hundred years time.
The Bookworm-A Memoir of Childhood Reading has a handy list of books at the back titled Lucy's Bookshelf which readers can then easily copy and introduce their children to these titles.
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Sarah S, Librarian
I think that I am of a very similar age to Mangan and so many of her experiences and book memories are the same as mine, from titles we read to how our families treated the reader. This book jogged my memory in so many ways that I now have a huge list of books to rediscover in 2018.
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