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

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Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781526610072
Format: Paper over boards
Year: 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury


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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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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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