Wings and the Child

By Nesbit, E. (Edith)

Book Id: WPLBN0002953774
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File Size: 112.47 MB
Reproduction Date: 2012

Title:	Wings and the Child
Author:	Nesbit, E. (Edith)
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Non-fiction, Advice, Instruction
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, Wings and the Child
Historic Publication Date:	1913
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago (Edith) Nesbit, B. E. (1913). Wings and the Child. Retrieved from http://www.self.gutenberg.org/

Description
When this book first came to my mind it came as a history and theory of the building of Magic Cities on tables, with bricks and toys and little things such as a child may find and use. But as I kept the thought by me it grew and changed, as thoughts will do, until at last it took shape as an attempt to contribute something, however small and unworthy, to the science of building a magic city in the soul of a child, a city built of all things pure and fine and beautiful. -- E. Nesbit This lovely book describes the practicalities of building cities (or forts, secret bases and fairytale palaces) out of household odds-and-ends. It also goes much further to speak of the importance of developing a child's imagination and other aspects of Education beyond simple instruction. Nesbit may not have realised how multicultural her own Britain was, let alone ours now, or that the wider world might be interested in this book, so please forgive some rather dated phrasing in places. -- Cori Samuel

Summary
Electronic recorded live performance of a reading

Excerpt
Advice, Instruction, Children