Why You Should Read Children’s Books, Even Though You Are So

Why You Should Read Children’s Books, Even Though You Are So

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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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_______________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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Weight 0,132 kg
Dimensions 14,6 × 10,5 × 1 cm
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Cover

Hardback

Pages

62

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

809.89282 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K

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