An unmissable essay on the importance of children's literature by the bestselling and award-winning author, Katherine Rundell.
'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
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.
This was a book that tells exactly how I feel about reading children's books. I feel this is a book that all adults should read that think children's books are only for kids. This book is only 80 pages long so it's a quick read. Though I'm not this book's target audience since I read a lot of children's books to my 2nd-graders, I liked this book and wanted to tell others about it. There are many great messages to be found in books that most think are just for kids.
