About the Book: British Childhood: How Our Children Live Now
No home, no school, and especially no library should be without this story and
this book-Michael Morpurgo
Original, surprising and compassionate without being earnest... Franks book
left me enraged, informed and moved-Sathnam Sanghera
A British Childhood is at once a searing account of our failure to look after
the nations most vulnerable citizens, and a call to arms to all of us to protect
the innocence of childhood.
During his time as Childrens Laureate Frank Cottrell-Boyce visited schools that
had been forced to make permanent homes in temporary buildings, where teachers
doubled up