Haunted Wood

The stories we read as children matter. The best ones are indelible in our memories and continue to influence the way we think for the rest of our lives. This personal overview of the children's literary canon revels in the magic of childhood reading, from the tales of Aesop, through the Victorian and Edwardian golden age to the modern classics. Sam Leith offers a humane portrait of a genre and celebrates the power of books to inspire and console successive generations.