Goblins burrowed in the earth, elves sang songs in the trees: Those were the obvious wonders of reading, but behind them — Francis Spufford, The Child That Books Built: A Life in Reading
Goblins burrowed in the earth, elves sang songs in the trees: Those were the obvious wonders of reading, but behind them — Francis Spufford, The Child That Books Built: A Life in Reading
Goblins burrowed in the earth, elves sang songs in the trees: Those were the obvious wonders of reading, but behind them — Francis Spufford, The Child That Books Built: A Life in Reading
Goblins burrowed in the earth, elves sang songs in the trees: Those were the obvious wonders of reading, but behind them — Francis Spufford, The Child That Books Built: A Life in Reading
Goblins burrowed in the earth, elves sang songs in the trees: Those were the obvious wonders of reading, but behind them — Francis Spufford, The Child That Books Built: A Life in Reading
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Goblins burrowed in the earth, elves sang songs in the trees: Those were the obvious wonders of reading, but behind them lay the fundamental marvel that, in stories, words could command things to be.

— Francis Spufford, The Child That Books Built: A Life in Reading
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