A pocketsized, unmissable essay on the importance of childrens literature by the bestselling and awardwinning author, Katherine Rundell.Its a very short book but it packs a real punch... A real delight Financial TimesRundell is the real deal, a writer of boundless gifts and extraordinary imaginative power whose novels will be read, cherished and reread long after most socalled serious novels are forgotten ObserverRundells pen is goldtipped Sunday TimesKatherine Rundell Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and prizewinning author of five novels for children explores how childrens books ignite, and can reignite, the imagination how childrens 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.

Binding: Hardback;80 pages; Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC; Classification: DSY; Weight: 236 g; Dimensions: 150 x 112 x 10

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