{"product_id":"a-british-childhood-how-our-children-live-now","title":"A British Childhood: How Our Children Live Now","description":"\u003cp\u003eNo home, no school, and especially no library should be without this story and this book'  – Michael Morpurgo\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Original, surprising and compassionate without being earnest . . . Frank's book left me enraged, informed and moved'  – Sathnam Sanghera\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e' Lively and frequently moving . . .  A British Childhood  makes a stirring case for children as central to any national story'  –  The Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDuring his time as Children’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 offenders’ institutions and prisons, many of them living in extremely precarious conditions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs he met these children, he began to reflect on stories from his own childhood and on children’s lives in Britain during his lifetime – the imaginative connections we make and the sense of community that are so vital to our future adult selves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA 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 after the nation’s most vulnerable citizens, and a call to arms to all of us to protect the innocence, and the imagination, of childhood.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Especially powerful on poverty, reading and imagination'  –  The i\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'This clarion call about the loss of delight and safety in children’s lives is also a reminder of the sheer magic of reading '  – The Guardian\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANT","offers":[{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":54363889140080,"sku":"UK1316","price":8.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1009\/8543\/8576\/files\/ebook_8271_a578c638cc.jpg?v=1790238556","url":"https:\/\/antbook.store\/fr\/products\/a-british-childhood-how-our-children-live-now","provider":"ANTBOOK","version":"1.0","type":"link"}