THE STORY OF CHILD HOOD

The Story of Child Hood

The Story of Child Hood

The book “The Story of Childhood: Growing up in Modern Britain” is written by Libby brooks. This book enriched all the necessary ingredients and insights from sociology, literature, psychology and history. And that is what makes it a remarkable piece or written art. The book has all the desired reading material for people who are interested in children welfare. Libby brooks, is a British based writer born in Glasgow, United Kingdom. She is famous for his writings and, she is famous for her murder mysteries writings. As far as her educational background concerned, she is a law graduate from the oxford university. Her professional career stated with one of the most prestigious new paper “Guardian” in the United Kingdom in the year 1997. She has also worked as a women's editor between the years 1999-2000.

She has won the “Catherine Packenham” award for young and energetic writers in the year 1996, and after that, she was titled as the young journalist of the year in 1998 by the British press Awards. In this book, Libby brook has tried to explore the childhood experiences in reference with 9 different children's with different ages, ranging from 4 years to sixteen years who have grown up in the United Kingdom (Brooks 2006, p. 2-18). The children's selected by the writer for these books have distinct social backgrounds. The author has discussed discrete event from their childhood in different analytical ways. For example, the young offender, the public-school boy, the country lad, the teenage mom. All of these different childhood experiences of these children's, narrated in different styles for example, frankly, talking amusingly, even some time shocking about their own lives while conveying a sense of instant experience that is illuminating and thought provoking indeed (Jenks 2002, pp. 11-35).

One of the characters in this book is Rosie, who lives in the country with her little sister and her parents and is just getting her restored teeth. She is confident and lovable and, her life prompts reflections about play and work-life balance. She is also a proficient player; one of those inventive children who make it clear that play is "children's work", as Montessori put it, but also a protected space for human development, as psychologist Erik Erikson affirmed (Prout 1997, pp. 19-29). It is a privilege to dip into Rosie's life, and into the lives of Lois, a nearly-10-year-old whose mother is a photographer, and Adam, a six-year-old who does not watch television.

Others discussed characters in the books have more problematic childhoods. Majid is a refugee from Iraq, and his sense of dispossession and worry about his relatives fuels a strenuous relationship with the British social system. Lauren is a teenage mother, which ought to be a problem but is not. And Nicholas has a high-achieving London family which seems to have squashed quite a lot of the life out of him, poor poppet, in the name of no-risk, fully-occupied, pre-networked ...