Book 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…
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Katherine Rundell writes for children. In this gorgeous short book, she tells us why adults should read children's books too. It is all about hope, agency, and transforming the world ahead of us.
For it is all about story-telling, and this is vital for all ages. Story tells children how to grow up to be good people; story tells adults what to do.
Katherine Rundell says: "those who write for children are trying to arm them for life." And yet children books and fairy tales have a long and noble history of being dismissed. She tells of the famed UK…
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