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Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell
Category: Teen
It was a very fine day, until something tried to eat him. A boy called Christopher is visiting his reclusive grandfather when he witnesses an avalanche of mythical creatures come tearing down the hill. This is how Christopher learns that his grandfather is the guardian of one of the ways between the no ...Show more
One Christmas Wish by Katherine Rundell
Category: Fiction
Go on an adventure with Katherine Rundell ... NOMINATED FOR THE CILIP CARNEGIE MEDAL 2019 NOMINATED FOR THE CILIP GREENAWAY MEDAL 2019 From the winner of the Costa Children's Book Award 'A writer with an utterly distinctive voice and a wild imagination' o Philip Pullman It's Christmas Eve and Theo o lef ...Show more
Rooftoppers by Katherine Rundell
Category: Teen
Everyone tells Sophie that she was orphaned in a shipwreck - found floating in a cello case on the English Channel on her first birthday. But Sophie is convinced her mother also survived. When the Welfare Agency threatens to separate her from her guardian and send her to an orphanage, Sophie takes matt ...Show more
The Explorer: WINNER OF THE COSTA CHILDREN'S BOOK AWARD by Katherine Rundell
Category: Teen
From his seat in the tiny aeroplane, Fred watches as the mysteries of the Amazon jungle pass by below him. He has always dreamed of becoming an explorer, of making history and of reading his name amongst the lists of great discoveries. If only he could land and look about him.As the plane crashes into t ...Show more
The Golden Mole, And other living treasure by Katherine Rundell
Category: Natural History
A gloriously illustrated and fascinating bestiary of the world's most extraordinary endangered animals - a treasure trove of vanishing wonders. A pangolin's tongue is longer than its body. It keeps it furled in a nifty pouch near the hip.A swift flies 200,000 miles in its lifetime. That's far enough to ...Show more
The Good Thieves by Katherine Rundell
Category: Teen
'Vita set her jaw, and nodded at New York City in greeting, as a boxer greets an opponent before a fight.' Fresh off the boat from England, Vita Marlowe has a job to do. Her beloved grandfather Jack has been cheated out of his home and possessions by a notorious conman with Mafia connections. Seeing J ...Show more
The Wolf Wilder by Katherine Rundell
Category: Teen
Go on an adventure with Katherine Rundell - From the winner of the Costa Children's Book Prize 'A writer with an utterly distinctive voice and a wild imagination' Philip Pullman Feodora and her mother live in the snowbound woods of Russia, in a house full of food and fireplaces. Ten minutes away, in a ...Show more
The Zebra's Great Escape (HB) by Katherine Rundell
Category: Hardback Picture Books
A TIMES CHILDREN'S BOOK OF THE WEEK'A writer of boundless gifts and extraordinary imaginative power' - Observer'A writer with an utterly distinctive voice and wild imagination' - Philip Pullman'Read everything she writes' - Daily Mail_______________Mink doesn't believe in rules. She loves running wild a ...Show more
Why You Should Read Children's Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise by Katherine Rundell
Category: Society & Culture | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
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 ...Show more
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