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Griffiths' understanding of how it feels to be a child is extraordinary, and her writing is as vivid as poetry

I didn't just read this book; I revelled in it.  Playful and polemical, emotional and imaginative. As vital as play itself

A subterranean book. We excavate it to refind the secrets of childhood, our own, and many other childhoods in times and places far from ours

Kith 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

Jay Griffiths writes with such richness and mischief about the one thing that could truly save the world: its children

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

Scintillating, passionate, supremely honest. Adults and children need more books like this

Jay Griffiths is one of our most poetic and passionate critics of the ways of civilisation. Provocative, illuminating and shamelessly romantic

The Riddle of the Childscape

In Kith, Jay 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.

From Jay Griffiths, the author of the award-winning Wild comes a passionate polemic defence of childhood 
 
'Her work isn't just good -- it's necessary' Philip Pullman 
 
In Kith, Jay 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. 
 
 '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 
 
 'Jay Griffiths writes with such richness and mischief about the one thing that could truly save the world: its children' KT Tunstall

Jay Griffiths is the author of many books, such as Wild: An Elemental Journey, Kith: The Riddle of the Childscape, Tristimania and Pip Pip: A Sideways Look at Time. She won the Discover award for the best first-time author in the USA; the inaugural Orion award and the Hay Festival International Fellowship. She has broadcast and written widely, on subjects such as Radiohead and the Royal Shakespeare Company. Her work has received widespread accolades, including from Gary Snyder, Barry Lopez, Don Paterson, John Berger, Philip Pullman, KT Tunstall and Nikolai Fraiture.

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