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The Sunday Times Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2025A Sunday Times, Irish Times, Financial Times, Independent, Daily Mail, TLS, Economist, Prospect, Evening Standard and New Statesman Book of the Year 2024*The perfect Christmas gift for booklovers*’A MARVEL’ PHILIP PULLMANThe stories we read as children matter a great deal. The best ones are indelible in our memories; reaching far beyond our childhoods, they are a window into our deepest hopes, joys and anxieties. They reveal our pastcollective and individual, remembered and imaginedand invite us to dream up different futures.In a pioneering history of the childrens literary canon, The Haunted Wood reveals the magic of childhood reading, from the ancient tales of Aesop, through the Victorian and Edwardian golden age to new classics. Excavating the complex lives of our most beloved writers, Sam Leith offers a humane portrait of a genre and celebrates the power of books to inspire and console entire generations.***’A DELIGHT’ JULIA DONALDSON’A JOY’ MICHAEL ROSEN’GLORIOUSLY ENTERTAINING’ TOM HOLLAND