Essays
Why You Should Read Children's Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise
2019·80 pages
A short, powerful essay on why adults should read children's books, exploring their imaginative and emotional depth.
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A short, powerful essay on why adults should read children's books, exploring their imaginative and emotional depth.
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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.
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