The Explorer: WINNER OF THE COSTA CHILDREN'S BOOK AWARD

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Drabble, Emily (3 April 2014). "Katherine Rundell wins the Waterstones children's book prize 2014". The Guardian. London . Retrieved 23 January 2017. a b Allardice, Lisa (18 November 2022). "Interview: 'Taking life advice from John Donne would be disastrous' – the roof-walking, trapeze-flying Baillie Gifford winner". The Guardian.

She also spent much of her time reading, particularly during her ninth and 10th years, when the foster sister her parents were caring for was dying. “I spent a huge amount of time escaping the world reading, and I think it is no coincidence that I write for the age that I was when that happened,” she muses. It was “deeply sad. Big and sad and difficult and new and profoundly painful … It was the saddest I had ever been. It’s young to discover death. What happens is you circle your wagons and draw the people you love closer and the things you love closer and for me that was books.” The prize fellowship at All Souls is over, but, missing the academic side of her life, Rundell now has another fellowship at the college. She has a room there, but lives in Borough, London, and is very definitely making a living from her children’s books – although she has a few other strings to her bow. Prix Sorcières - Lauréats 2015: Romans Juniors - Lauréat". www.abf.asso.fr. Association des Bibliothécaires de France. 4 April 2016 . Retrieved 22 April 2017. Oh. and one more thing. I didn't like the ending. I suppose they wanted us to still feel the mystery, but I felt it was frustrating to feel like the answer to the mystery was RIGHT THERE and they wouldn't tell us. Annoying. Heroes don’t exist, boy – they’re inventions made up of newsprint and quotable lines and photogenic moustaches.”The Good Thieves. Illustrated by Matt Saunders. Bloomsbury Children's Books. 13 June 2019. ISBN 978-1408854891. {{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: others ( link) This is an amazing book and I’m so sorry that there are 1 stars, this is a wonderfully written and the characters are brilliant, keep this amazing work up 😉 Katherine Rundell is a bestselling author whose novels for children include Rooftoppers, The Wolf Wilder, The Explorer and The Good Thieves. She has won the Costa Children’s Book Award, the Blue Peter Book Award and the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, amongst many others. She was a 2021 World Book Day author and has also published two picture books for children and three non-fiction books for adults, including Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne, winner of the 2022 Baillie Gifford Prize, and The Golden Mole and Other Living Treasure, shortlisted for the 2022 Waterstones Book of the Year. Her books have sold millions of copies worldwide. A mysterious map, found by chance, charts their course, leading them to a ruined city of secrets, where they soon discover that they were never alone out there in the jungle; someone has been watching them, and it’s only a matter of time until their paths cross. This book really grabbed my interest than others I give this book 5 star rating as I love the Intertainment and language they use.

a b "Katherine Rundell wins Waterstones Children's Book Prize". BBC News Online. BBC. 3 April 2014 . Retrieved 22 January 2017. Disfrute de una gran aventura leyendo la historia de estos pequeños, párrafos llenos de mensajes, una lectura agradable y amena con datos muy interesantes de esta maravilla de selva, la cual debemos cuidar y sobre todo respetar. Please don't watch/listen to/read chapters 2 (The Green Dark) -13 (Smoke) until you have had your first Book Group. Education Shed Ltd, Severn House, Severn Bridge, Riverside North, Bewdley, Worcestershire, UK, DY12 1AB

Rundell's third novel, The Wolf Wilder, tells the story of Feodora, who prepares wolf cubs – kept as status-symbol pets by wealthy Russians – for release into the wild when they become too large and unmanageable for their owners. [12]