Why you should read children’s books, even though you are so old and wise

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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.

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ISBN: 9781526610072 Author: Rundell, Katherine Publisher: Bloomsbury Publication Date: 8th August 2019 Imprint: Bloomsbury Cover: Hardback Dewey: 809.89282 (edition:23) Pages: 62 Language: English Readership: General - Trade / Code: K Category: Subjects: , ,

_______________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.

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