Wings and the Child
E. Nesbit
Read by Cori Samuel
"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 (3 hr 53 min)
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Accidental windfall
Rikster
I had no intentions to read this book or listen, indeed I did not even know of it's existence I was simply scrolling through the titles that Cori has read., it is however a wonderful journey of observations and musings and I enjoyed every chapter. Thank you Cori for another excellent reading.