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Why You Should Read Children's Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise
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Why You Should Read Children's Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise
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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.
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'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
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Why You Should Read Children's Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise by 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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Katherine Rundell's Why You Should Read Children's Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise has been warmly received, with reviews praising her ability to present a persuasive argument for why adults should continue reading children's literature. The book is described as a charming and impactful treatise that highlights the insight and perspective embedded in children's books, encouraging readers to reconnect with their sense of wonder and imagination. Reviewers appreciate Rundell's eloquent and compelling style, calling it a delightful and thought-provoking read.
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ISBN: 9781526610072
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 08 August 2019
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 14.0mm
Width: 112.0mm
Height: 152.0mm
Weight: 120g
Pages: 80
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About the Author
Katherine Rundell is the million-copy bestselling author of five children’s novels and has won the Costa Children’s Book Award, the Blue Peter Book Award and the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize amongst many others. Katherine spent her childhood in Africa and Europe before taking her degree at the University of Oxford and becoming a Fellow of All Souls College. As well as writing, she studies Renaissance literature and is learning, very slowly, to fly a small aeroplane. Katherine will be a World Book Day author for 2021.
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