Ebook: Storytime: growing up with books

1. The story of Pisk / The myths of Greece and Rome by H. A. Guerber -- 2. Curiouser / Alice's adventures in Wonderland, Through the looking glass and What Alice found there by Lewis Carroll -- 3. A boy and his bear / Winnie the Pooh, The house at Pooh Corner by A. A. Milne -- 4. Things begin to happen / The castle of adventure by Enid Blyton -- 5. Mamma on the bookshelf / Finn Family Moomintroll by Tove Jansson -- 6. The flashing eyes of Betty Roland / The silent three by Horace Boyten and Stewart Pride, illustrated by Evelyn Flinders -- 7. Genius burns / Little Women by Louisa May Alcott -- 8. Mr Toad and the gates of dawn / The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame -- 9. I'm going to believe in magic as hard as I can / The enchanted castle by E. Nesbitt -- 10. A sockdolager on the muzzle / The magic pudding by Norman Lindsay -- 11. She was the professor of Greek at Oxford / The warden's neice by Gillian Avery -- 12. The very end of the world / The voyage of the Dawn Treader by C. S. Lewis -- 13. The shudder and the cold seed / Great tales of terror and the supernatural edited by Phyllis Cerf Wagner and Herbert Wise -- 14. Sandwiched between miles of rock / The weirdstone of Brisingamen by Alan Garner -- 15. The temptation and the cure / The myths of Greece and Rome by H. A. Guerber.;Storytime is a bibliomemoir for adults, a book about the author's experience of reading books. In the author's case, it's a voyage of discovery back to the books she had loved more than any others: the books she read as a child. She wanted to find out why they were so vitally important to her, why she needed them, and why they still shape her today. The author chose a series of books she'd read between the ages of seven and eleven, wrote down what she could remember about them, then reread them. They include Lewis Carroll's Alice books, Enid Blyton, Winnie-the-Pooh, The Wind in the Willows, The Magic Pudding, the Narnia books and schoolgirl comics. And one book she'd hated: Little Women. Each chapter considers one text, or more than one that belong together. And each time the author has tried to analyse what she needed from this story and these characters.