Read everything she writes

Daily Mail

A winning polemic about how reading a children's book can remind us of the need to see things from different perspectives

i Weekend

Rundell's pen is gold-tipped

Sunday Times

Rundell is now unarguably in the first rank

Philip Pullman on The Explorer

As an unashamed lover and reader of children's literature, I adored Katherine Rundell's Why You Should Read Children's Books ... [it's] time to remind yourself of the reason you fell in love with books and reading in the first place

Observer New Review

It's a very short book but it packs a real punch. Rundell makes an irresistible case and reminds you of the wonder and excitement of reading, discovering and learning. She is a brilliant and ferocious communicator; I found her use of language and some of her tropes thrilling and fascinating and enormously generative. A real delight

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