Why You Should Read Children's Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise

Katherine Rundell


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4.13 · 16 ratings · 80 pages · Published: 08 Aug 2019

Why You Should Read Children's Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise by Katherine Rundell
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.

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