Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading

Author/Guide: Lucy Mangan

Why a Booktrail?

How do books shape a person’s life?

ISBN: 978-0224098854
Genre: Autobiography/memoirs

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What you need to know before your trail

When Lucy Mangan was little, stories were everything. They opened up new worlds and cast light on all the complexities she encountered in this one.

She was whisked away to Narnia – and Kirrin Island – and Wonderland. She ventured down rabbit holes and womble burrows into midnight gardens and chocolate factories. She wandered the countryside with Milly-Molly-Mandy, and played by the tracks with the Railway Children. With Charlotte’s Web she discovered Death and with Judy Blume it was Boys. No wonder she only left the house for her weekly trip to the library or to spend her pocket money on amassing her own at home.

In Bookworm, Lucy revisits her childhood reading with wit, love and gratitude. She relives our best-beloved books, their extraordinary creators, and looks at the thousand subtle ways they shape our lives. She also disinters a few forgotten treasures to inspire the next generation of bookworms and set them on their way.

Travel Guide

The world of books

A book and biography for book lovers everywhere!

If you love books, you’ll remember which books you read as a child and the first set of literary adventures you had, the visits to the library with your parents, your mum and dad reading to you, quiet time reading at school….

This is walk down memory lane and also a chance to return to the sights, sounds and smells of reading when you completely lost yourself in Narnia and even sat at the back of any wardrobe or cupboard you could find – just because.

As a child, you often crave books again and again and love returning to the worlds they open up. Narnia, the Magic Faraway Tree, Alice in Wonderland to name but three. The adventure these books inspired, the tree climbing and the seemingly endless summers of reading in the garden imagining you were one of the Famous Five.

Then there’s the joy of reading these books as an adult, perhaps to your own children or just holding a copy of The Tiger Who Came to Tea and smiling at the memories. The joy of eating chocolate after having read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and still hoping as an adult that you might find a golden ticket in your next bar.

Talking about memories, there’s a special place for Ladybird books.

A special hug for books and bookworms every where.

Booktrailer Review

Susan: @thebooktrailer

A special read for booklovers everywhere. A trip down memory lane paved with books. Lucy Mangan is the perfect one to write this given her wit and humour and I thoroughly enjoyed relaxing with this, laughing and crying at the happy memories and the wonderful world of books. I have a bookmark which reads ‘a books is a gift you can open again and again’ and this is the perfect book for it to live in!