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

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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.

Literary Collections Essays Children's & Young Adult Literary Criticism

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30 printed pages

Publication year: 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

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Go to children’s fiction to see the world with double eyes: your own, and those of your childhood self.
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If hope is a thing with feathers, then libraries are wings.
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I still find libraries astonishing; I still think they speak to our better instincts. The library remains one of the few places in the world where you don’t have to buy anything, know anyone or believe anything to enter in. It’s our most egalitarian space.
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