num_pages: 76
description: An unmissable essay on the importance of children's literature by the bestselling and award-winning author Katherine Rundell.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.
language: English
title: Why You Should Read Children's Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise
publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing