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

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ISBN9781526610072
PublisherBloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publishing Date08/08/2019
Price (excl. tax)€9.34
Tax€0.56
Price (incl. tax)€9.90
Availability+20 units in external warehouse

Product Description

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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.