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

A pocket-sized, unmissable essay

A pocket-sized, unmissable essay on the importance of children's literature by the bestselling and award-winning author, Katherine Rundell.

Praise

"It's a very short book but it packs a real punch... A real delight" — Financial Times

"Rundell is the real deal, a writer of boundless gifts and extraordinary imaginative power whose novels will be read, cherished and reread long after most so-called "serious" novels are forgotten" — Observer

"Rundell's pen is gold-tipped" — Sunday Times

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.