Why You Should Read Children’s Books, Even Though You Are So

Katherine RundellPublished: 08/08/2019

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Katherine Rundell – Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and prize-winning author of five novels for children – explores how children’s books ignite, and can re-ignite, the imagination; how children’s 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.

ISBN: 9781526610072 Category:

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_______________A pocket-sized, unmissable essay on the importance of children’s literature by the bestselling and award-winning author, Katherine Rundell._______________‘It’s a very short book but it packs a real punch… A real delight’ – Financial Times‘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’ Observer‘Rundell’s pen is gold-tipped’ – Sunday Times_______________Katherine Rundell – Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and prize-winning author of five novels for children – explores how children’s books ignite, and can re-ignite, the imagination; how children’s 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.

Additional information

Weight 0.132 kg
Dimensions 14.6 × 10.5 × 1 cm
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Publisher
Imprint

Cover

Hardback

Pages

62

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

809.89282 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K

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