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An unmissable essay on the importance of childrens literature by the bestselling and award-winning author, Katherine Rundell.Rundell is the real deal, a writer of boundless gifts and extraordinary imaginative power whose novels will be read, cherished and reread long after most so-called serious novels are forgotten - ObserverKatherine Rundell - Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and prize-winning author of five novels for children - explores how childrens books ignite, and can re-ignite, the imagination; how childrens fiction, with its unabashed emotion and playfulness, can awaken old hungers and create new perspectives on the world. This delightful and persuasive essay is for adult readers.
Product Details
Title: | Why You Should Read Children's Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise |
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Author: | Katherine Rundell |
Publisher: | BLOOMSBURY CHILDREN'S BOOKS |
SKU: | BK0486597 |
EAN: | 9781526610072 |
Number Of Pages: | 80 |
Language: | English |
Binding: | Paperback |
Release date: | 8 August 2019 |
About Author
Katherine Rundell is a bestselling writer and a Fellow of St Catherine's College, Oxford. Her books have sold millions of copies, been translated into 40 languages and have won, among others, the Baillie Gifford Prize for non-fiction, the Boston Globe Horn Book Award, the Waterstones Book of the Year, the Costa Children's Book Award, the Andersen Prize in Italy and Le Prix Sorcières in France. She lives mostly in London and a little in Oxford, where she works on research into the Renaissance poet John Donne and occasionally goes climbing on rooftops late at night.