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

_______________ 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.

ISBN:	9781526610072
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
Imprint:	Bloomsbury
Published date:	08 Aug 2019
DEWEY:	809.89282
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Sales rank:	8917
Number of pages:	62
Weight:	130g
Height:	150mm
Width:	112mm
Spine width:	10mm

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