Children’s reading 1939-45

I was not quite three when the war started in 1939, but became a keen reader during the next six years. Favourite books, carried from one part of Britain to another as my parents moved home after home to avoid bombing, helped provide a welcome sense of continuity to a world otherwise very much in flux. With numbers of book warehouses destroyed during 1940 bombing raids on London Docks there followed a great shortage of all books for children. I sometimes wonder whether my own future academic

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