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Author: Rundell, Katherine
Children's literature studies: general
Published on 8 August 2019 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC in the United Kingdom.
Hardback | 80 pages
150 x 112 x 10 | 118g
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 TimesKatherine 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.
