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A girl falls down a rabbit hole. An orphan flies out of his bedroom window. Another finds a key to a secret garden… The stories written for children 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 a different future. More vivid, more real than books we encountered mere months ago, our childhood reading might just be the making of us. The Haunted Wood is the only history of canonical literature written for children. It explores the breadth of the British nursery bookshelf, from Beatrix Potter and Maurice Sendak to Enid Blyton and Philip Pullman. And reveals the magic of our most beloved stories, the lasting grip they seem to have on us and the ways in which they define and console entire generations.
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