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A British Childhood: How Our Children Live Now

By (author) Frank Cottrell-Boyce

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'No home, no school, and especially no library should be without this story and this book' - Michael Morpurgo 'Original, surprising and compassionate without being earnest . . . Frank's book left me enraged, informed and moved' - Sathnam Sanghera 'Lively and frequently moving . . . A British Childhood makes a stirring case for children as central to any national story' The Times During his time as Childrenâ€™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 offendersâ€™ institutions and prisons, many of them living in extremely precarious conditions. As he met these children, he began to reflect on stories from his own childhood and on childrenâ€™s lives in Britain during his lifetime â€“ the imaginative connections we make and the sense of community that are so vital to our future adult selves. A British Childhood 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 aftfter the nationâ€™s most vulnerable citizens, and a call to arms to all of us to protect the innocence, and the imagination, of childhood. 'Especially powerful on poverty, reading and imagination' - The i 'This clarion call about the loss of delight and safety in childrenâ€™s lives is also a reminder of the sheer magic of reading' - Guardian