Portable Magic
Reach Out and Read
English - February 02, 2023 08:00 - 35 minutes - 48.7 MBMedicine Health & Fitness Kids & Family Education for Kids earlychildhoodeducation pediatrics books children earlyreaders librarians literacy reachoutandread reading wellvisits Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Books are magic. The way they smell, the feel of their pages, illustrations on their covers, weight in your hands - all these elements convey meaning in excess of their verbal content. Our guest, Emma Smith, Professor of Shakespeare Studies at Oxford University, and author of Portable Magic: A History of Books and Their Readers, joins us to talk about these factors and how, when and why books became…iconic.