{"product_id":"a-british-childhood-hardback","title":"A British Childhood by Frank Cottrell-Boyce [HARDBACK]","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'No home, no school, and especially no library should be without this story and this book'\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e- Michael Morpurgo\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Original, surprising and compassionate without being earnest . . . Frank's book left me enraged, informed and moved'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e - Sathnam Sanghera\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'This clarion call about the loss of delight and safety in children's lives is also a reminder of the sheer magic of reading\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e- Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDuring his time as Children's Laureate, the bestselling author Frank Cottrell-Boyce travelled the country, meeting children and young people where they were: in schools and libraries, in young offenders' institutions and prisons, many of them living in extremely precarious conditions.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAs he met these children, he began to reflect on stories from his own childhood and on children's lives in Britain during his lifetime - the imaginative connections we make and the sense of community that are so vital to our future adult selves.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA British Childhood\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e tells the story of what it means to be young in modern Britain. It is at once a searing condemnation of our failure to look after the nation's most vulnerable citizens, and a call to arms to all of us to protect the innocence, and the imagination, of childhood.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Especially powerful on poverty, reading and imagination'\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e- \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe i\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Novel Sheffield","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63819819909497,"sku":null,"price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0727\/0721\/1547\/files\/9781035080755.webp?v=1782211125","url":"https:\/\/novelsheffield.com\/products\/a-british-childhood-hardback","provider":"Novel Sheffield","version":"1.0","type":"link"}