The Haunted Wood: A History of Childhood ReadingCan you remember the first time you fell in love with a book? The stories we read as children matter. The best ones are indelible in our memories; reaching 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 the childrens literary canon, The Haunted Wood reveals the magic

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