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A Country Called Childhood: Children and the Exuberant World by Jay Griffiths
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- Publication Date
- 2014-11-01
- Pages
- 432
- ISBN
- 9781619024298
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Counterpoint Press
ISBN-10
1619024292
ISBN-13
9781619024298
eBay Product ID (ePID)
177571706
Product Key Features
Book Title
Country Called Childhood : Children and the Exuberant World
Number of Pages
432 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Children's Studies, Parenting / General, Special Interest / Family, Life Stages / School Age
Publication Year
2014
Genre
Family & Relationships, Travel, Social Science
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.3 in
Item Weight
25.5 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2014-022401
TitleLeading
A
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
" A Country Called Childhood could have been written by no-one but Jay Griffiths. It is ablaze with her love of the physical world and her passionate moral sense that goodness and a true relation with nature are intimately connected. She has the same visionary understanding of childhood that we find in Blake and Wordsworth, and John Clare would have read her with delight. Her work isn't just good -- it's necessary."--Philip Pullman "I didn't just read this book; I revelled in it. There's a rare vitality and robust energy . . . reading this book feels like playing in the woods. An unabashedly Romantic rallying cry for childhood. Playful and polemical, emotional and imaginative. As vital as play itself." -- Independent "Passionate, wilful and supremely honest." Literary Review "An impassioned, visionary plea to restore to our children the spirit of adventure, freedom and closeness to nature that is their birthright. We must hear it and act on it before it is too late." --Iain McGilchrist "A subterranean book. We excavate it to refine the secrets of childhood, our own, and many other childhoods in times and places far from ours. We join an underground resistance to the capital of grown-up greed, accountancy and profit. We rejoin the Bears." --John Berger "Jay Griffiths writes with such richness and mischief about the one thing that could truly save the world: its children." --KT Tunstall "A beautiful combination of expansive tenderness and fierce intolerance of pettiness. A Country Called Childhood is a call to live life intensely and authentically, vividly, and with grace, humour and passion. Griffiths has politicized awe and wonder and play." --Niall Griffiths "Jay Griffiths is one of our most poetic and passionate critics of the ways of civilisation; provocative, illuminating and shamelessly romantic." --Theodore Zeldin "Every time Jay Griffiths picks up a pen, whatever her subject, she cannot help spinning into every paragraph her passionate love of nature and wildness and our relationship with the physical world out there. Her writing is like a cave painting, telling as much of man as of beast and leaving us in awe of both." --John Lister-Kaye, The Scotsman An impassioned and well-researched plea for the spirit of adventure to be instilled in the young." -- Sun-Herald (Sydney) Persuasive on how Western child-rearing is characterised by consumerism, "clockwork" overscheduling and enclosure, without adequate room for play in the natural world." -- The Age "Jay Griffiths' works are original, inspiring and dare you to search beyond the accepted norm." Nikolai Fraiture, The Strokes, " A Country Called Childhood could have been written by no-one but Jay Griffiths. It is ablaze with her love of the physical world and her passionate moral sense that goodness and a true relation with nature are intimately connected. She has the same visionary understanding of childhood that we find in Blake and Wordsworth, and John Clare would have read her with delight. Her work isn't just good -- it's necessary."--Philip Pullman "I didn't just read this book; I revelled in it. There's a rare vitality and robust energy . . . reading this book feels like playing in the woods. An unabashedly Romantic rallying cry for childhood. Playful and polemical, emotional and imaginative. As vital as play itself." -- Independent "Passionate, wilful and supremely honest." Literary Review "An impassioned, visionary plea to restore to our children the spirit of adventure, freedom and closeness to nature that is their birthright. We must hear it and act on it before it is too late." --Iain McGilchrist "A subterranean book. We excavate it to refine the secrets of childhood, our own, and many other childhoods in times and places far from ours. We join an underground resistance to the capital of grown-up greed, accountancy and profit. We rejoin the Bears." --John Berger "Jay Griffiths writes with such richness and mischief about the one thing that could truly save the world: its children." --KT Tunstall "A beautiful combination of expansive tenderness and fierce intolerance of pettiness. A Country Called Childhood is a call to live life intensely and authentically, vividly, and with grace, humour and passion. Griffiths has politicized awe and wonder and play." --Niall Griffiths "Jay Griffiths is one of our most poetic and passionate critics of the ways of civilisation; provocative, illuminating and shamelessly romantic." --Theodore Zeldin "Every time Jay Griffiths picks up a pen, whatever her subject, she cannot help spinning into every paragraph her passionate love of nature and wildness and our relationship with the physical world out there. Her writing is like a cave painting, telling as much of man as of beast and leaving us in awe of both." --John Lister-Kaye, The Scotsman An impassioned and well-researched plea for the spirit of adventure to be instilled in the young." -- Sun-Herald (Sydney) Persuasive on how Western child-rearing is characterised by consumerism, "clockwork" overscheduling and enclosure, without adequate room for play in the natural world." -- The Age, " A Country Called Childhood could have been written by no-one but Jay Griffiths. It is ablaze with her love of the physical world and her passionate moral sense that goodness and a true relation with nature are intimately connected. She has the same visionary understanding of childhood that we find in Blake and Wordsworth, and John Clare would have read her with delight. Her work isn''t just good -- it''s necessary."--Philip Pullman ""Parents who love deep philosophical and critical thinking about the hot-button topic of over-parenting will relish A Country Called Childhood ." — Parents Magazine "I didn't just read this book; I revelled in it. There's a rare vitality and robust energy . . . reading this book feels like playing in the woods. An unabashedly Romantic rallying cry for childhood. Playful and polemical, emotional and imaginative. As vital as play itself." -- Independent "…she adds a lush texture of myth and cultural reference that is often extremely seductive. She is strongest in the literary realm, and two chapters on woodland quest tales and fairy stories are very successful, weaving together a number of traditions to show how fundamental these mystical narratives are, and how necessary to a child's opening heart.…The exuberance of her thought and of her prose is matched by the exuberance of her desire—that nature-starved children be granted the real outdoors, the unenclosed Eden, common as chaffinches," not simply a few urban trees planted to shade a playground. That exuberant hope seems to me absolutely necessary today..." — The New Republic "Passionate, wilful and supremely honest." Literary Review "Griffiths goes beyond the current debates on child-rearing practices—e.g., overstructured play, too much time online and too little quality family time — and examines what she considers a more fundamental flaw: the separation of children from a natural environment...A provocative critique of modern society." — Kirkus "An impassioned, visionary plea to restore to our children the spirit of adventure, freedom and closeness to nature that is their birthright. We must hear it and act on it before it is too late." --Iain McGilchrist "A subterranean book. We excavate it to refine the secrets of childhood, our own, and many other childhoods in times and places far from ours. We join an underground resistance to the capital of grown-up greed, accountancy and profit. We rejoin the Bears." --John Berger "Griffiths ( Wild, An Elemental Journey , 2006) is a committed and passionate author, who immerses herself in subjects with an impressive verve..." — Booklist "Jay Griffiths writes with such richness and mischief about the one thing that could truly save the world: its children." --KT Tunstall "A beautiful combination of expansive tenderness and fierce intolerance of pettiness. A Country Called Childhood is a call to live life intensely and authentically, vividly, and with grace, humour and passion. Griffiths has politicized awe and wonder and play." --Niall Griffiths "Jay Griffiths is one of our most poetic and passionate critics of the ways of civilisation; provocative, illuminating and shamelessly romantic." --Theodore Zeldin "Every time Jay Griffiths picks up a pen, whatever her subject, she cannot help spinning into every paragraph her passionate love of nature and wildness and our relationship with the physical world out there. Her writing is like a cave painting, telling as much of man as of beast and leaving us in awe of both." --John Lister-Kaye, The Scotsman An impassioned and well-researched plea for the spirit of adventure to be instilled in the young." -- Sun-Herald (Sydney) Persuasive on how Western child-rearing is characterised by consumerism, "clockwork" overscheduling and enclosure, without adequate room for play in the natural world." -- The Age "Jay Griffiths'' works are original, inspiring and dare you to search beyond the accepted norm." Nikolai Fraiture, The Strokes, " A Country Called Childhood could have been written by no-one but Jay Griffiths. It is ablaze with her love of the physical world and her passionate moral sense that goodness and a true relation with nature are intimately connected. She has the same visionary understanding of childhood that we find in Blake and Wordsworth, and John Clare would have read her with delight. Her work isn't just good -- it's necessary."--Philip Pullman "I didn't just read this book; I revelled in it. There's a rare vitality and robust energy . . . reading this book feels like playing in the woods. An unabashedly Romantic rallying cry for childhood. Playful and polemical, emotional and imaginative. As vital as play itself." -- Independent "Passionate, wilful and supremely honest." Literary Review "An impassioned, visionary plea to restore to our children the spirit of adventure, freedom and closeness to nature that is their birthright. We must hear it and act on it before it is too late." --Iain McGilchrist "A subterranean book. We excavate it to refine the secrets of childhood, our own, and many other childhoods in times and places far from ours. We join an underground resistance to the capital of grown-up greed, accountancy and profit. We rejoin the Bears." --John Berger "Griffiths ( Wild, An Elemental Journey , 2006) is a committed and passionate author, who immerses herself in subjects with an impressive verve..." — Booklist "Jay Griffiths writes with such richness and mischief about the one thing that could truly save the world: its children." --KT Tunstall "A beautiful combination of expansive tenderness and fierce intolerance of pettiness. A Country Called Childhood is a call to live life intensely and authentically, vividly, and with grace, humour and passion. Griffiths has politicized awe and wonder and play." --Niall Griffiths "Jay Griffiths is one of our most poetic and passionate critics of the ways of civilisation; provocative, illuminating and shamelessly romantic." --Theodore Zeldin "Every time Jay Griffiths picks up a pen, whatever her subject, she cannot help spinning into every paragraph her passionate love of nature and wildness and our relationship with the physical world out there. Her writing is like a cave painting, telling as much of man as of beast and leaving us in awe of both." --John Lister-Kaye, The Scotsman An impassioned and well-researched plea for the spirit of adventure to be instilled in the young." -- Sun-Herald (Sydney) Persuasive on how Western child-rearing is characterised by consumerism, "clockwork" overscheduling and enclosure, without adequate room for play in the natural world." -- The Age "Jay Griffiths' works are original, inspiring and dare you to search beyond the accepted norm." Nikolai Fraiture, The Strokes, " A Country Called Childhood could have been written by no-one but Jay Griffiths. It is ablaze with her love of the physical world and her passionate moral sense that goodness and a true relation with nature are intimately connected. She has the same visionary understanding of childhood that we find in Blake and Wordsworth, and John Clare would have read her with delight. Her work isn''t just good -- it''s necessary."--Philip Pullman "I didn't just read this book; I revelled in it. There's a rare vitality and robust energy . . . reading this book feels like playing in the woods. An unabashedly Romantic rallying cry for childhood. Playful and polemical, emotional and imaginative. As vital as play itself." -- Independent "...she adds a lush texture of myth and cultural reference that is often extremely seductive. She is strongest in the literary realm, and two chapters on woodland quest tales and fairy stories are very successful, weaving together a number of traditions to show how fundamental these mystical narratives are, and how necessary to a child's opening heart....The exuberance of her thought and of her prose is matched by the exuberance of her desire—that nature-starved children be granted the real outdoors, the unenclosed Eden, common as chaffinches," not simply a few urban trees planted to shade a playground. That exuberant hope seems to me absolutely necessary today..." — The New Republic "Passionate, wilful and supremely honest." Literary Review "Griffiths goes beyond the current debates on child-rearing practices—e.g., overstructured play, too much time online and too little quality family time — and examines what she considers a more fundamental flaw: the separation of children from a natural environment...A provocative critique of modern society." — Kirkus "An impassioned, visionary plea to restore to our children the spirit of adventure, freedom and closeness to nature that is their birthright. We must hear it and act on it before it is too late." --Iain McGilchrist "A subterranean book. We excavate it to refine the secrets of childhood, our own, and many other childhoods in times and places far from ours. We join an underground resistance to the capital of grown-up greed, accountancy and profit. We rejoin the Bears." --John Berger "Griffiths ( Wild, An Elemental Journey , 2006) is a committed and passionate author, who immerses herself in subjects with an impressive verve..." — Booklist "Jay Griffiths writes with such richness and mischief about the one thing that could truly save the world: its children." --KT Tunstall "A beautiful combination of expansive tenderness and fierce intolerance of pettiness. A Country Called Childhood is a call to live life intensely and authentically, vividly, and with grace, humour and passion. Griffiths has politicized awe and wonder and play." --Niall Griffiths "Jay Griffiths is one of our most poetic and passionate critics of the ways of civilisation; provocative, illuminating and shamelessly romantic." --Theodore Zeldin "Every time Jay Griffiths picks up a pen, whatever her subject, she cannot help spinning into every paragraph her passionate love of nature and wildness and our relationship with the physical world out there. Her writing is like a cave painting, telling as much of man as of beast and leaving us in awe of both." --John Lister-Kaye, The Scotsman An impassioned and well-researched plea for the spirit of adventure to be instilled in the young." -- Sun-Herald (Sydney) Persuasive on how Western child-rearing is characterised by consumerism, "clockwork" overscheduling and enclosure, without adequate room for play in the natural world." -- The Age "Jay Griffiths'' works are original, inspiring and dare you to search beyond the accepted norm." Nikolai Fraiture, The Strokes
Dewey Decimal
305.23
Synopsis
While traveling the world in order to write her award winning book Wild , Jay Griffiths became increasingly aware of the huge differences in how childhood is experienced in various cultures. One central riddle, in particular captured her imagination: why are so many children in Euro-American cultures unhappy - and why is it that children in traditional cultures seem happier? In A Country Called Childhood , Griffiths seeks to discover why we deny our children the freedoms of space, time and the natural world. Visiting communities as far apart as West Papua and the Arctic as well as the UK, and delving into history, philosophy, language and literature, she explores how children's affinity for nature is an essential and universal element of childhood. It is a journey deep into the heart of what it means to be a child, and it is central to all our experiences, young and old.
LC Classification Number
HQ767.9.G738 2014
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