An unmissable essay on the importance of children's literature by the bestselling and award-winning author, Katherine Rundell.
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.
Format:
Pages:
76 pages
Publication:
2019
Publisher:
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
1526610078
ISBN13:
9781526610072
kindle Asin:
B07P12Z3GF
Why You Should Read Children's Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise
An unmissable essay on the importance of children's literature by the bestselling and award-winning author, Katherine Rundell.
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.