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

By: Katherine Rundell
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 Bloomsbury presents Why You Should Read Children's Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise written and read by Katherine Rundell.
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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.©2019 Katherine Rundell (P)2019 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Essays Literary History & Criticism Nonfiction
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Spellbinding invocation to retrieve worlds of essential value mystery and hope with which to enrich and reorient our adult miasma and confusion.

Sound and timely advice

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