a b "Katherine Rundell wins Waterstones Children's Book Prize". BBC News Online. BBC. 3 April 2014 . Retrieved 22 January 2017. At its heart, this story was one of human connection and how even in the hardest of times people can get through with teamwork and helping each other out. Some of the characters were difficult to connect to at first which is perhaps why my rating didn't come out as higher however I would like to draw attention to how Rundell masterfully displayed character growth and by the end of this book, I was enchanted by each and every character. 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. 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 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2022". The Baillie Gifford Prize . Retrieved 17 November 2022. She completed her undergraduate studies at St Catherine's College, Oxford (2005 – 2008). During this period she developed an interest in rooftop climbing, [15] inspired by a 1937 book, The Night Climbers of Cambridge, about the adventures of undergraduate students at that university. [14] Academic career [ edit ] There is the very occasional use of low-level adult language. A few times the narrator also mentions that the characters were swearing, but without actually stating the specific words. None of this should cause too much of a problem in class, but it’s worth considering if you have very sensitive or younger children. Fisher, Philip (3 August 2016). "Life According to Saki". British Theatre Guide . Retrieved 23 January 2017.a b c d Bradbury, Lorna (25 April 2014). "Katherine Rundell: children's novelist and thrill-seeker". The Daily Telegraph. London . Retrieved 22 January 2017. The Explorer. Illustrated by Hannah Horn. Bloomsbury Publishing, 1 September 2017. ISBN 9781408854877 [29] As reported by The Guardian, "She is giving the Baillie Gifford prize money to charity: to Blue Ventures, an ocean-based conservation organisation, and also to a refugee charity. The reason? 'No man is an island,' she says, citing that most famous of all Donne lines." [11] Personal life [ edit ] I should be saying that I think Rundell is one of our finest and I hope she stays in the field of children's literature and does not leave. She has a style and heart which is so well suited to the genre - she never writes down and she writes with passion and humour which children will intrinsically love. Yet, the Explorer wasn't as strong, for me, as some of her other work - notably The Wolf Wilder, which is one of my favourites.

The Good Thieves. Illustrated by Matt Saunders. Bloomsbury Children's Books. 13 June 2019. ISBN 978-1408854891. {{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: others ( link) School finished at midday, and she and her friends would run barefoot through the afternoons, her mother “willing to let us take risks that I understand now as an adult would have taken a huge amount of toughness and courage on her part”, she says. “I have these memories of building a raft out of two logs and poling ourselves across this lake and teasing each other there were crocodiles. There’s a kind of raw and heady joy to being alone as a child with no adult supervision. I know that’s really hard to recreate if you live in certain cities but in Zim it’s not hard, you just go and run.” As they get bolder and explore further afield, they see more traces of another human inhabitant, too – and then they find the map. Who was here before and where will the map take them? Presenter: Roger McGough; Producer: Sally Heaven (4 July 2015). "John Donne". Poetry Please. BBC. BBC Radio 4 . Retrieved 22 January 2017.I didn’t know vultures could so much look like aunts,” said Con. Moreover, a few lines impart wisdom in a nonchalant way. Not like taking a pedestal and talking down to the reader but more so like talking to a friend. With dreams of writing another play, that adult novel bubbling under and a picture book – her second – in the works, Rundell is also finding the time to take flying trapeze lessons. It’s all in aid of her new children’s novel, but she won’t say any more. Rundell, Katherine (28 August 2014) [first published 2013 in English as Rooftoppers by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers]. Le ciel nous appartient. Translated by Ghez, Emmanuelle. Les Grandes Personnes. ISBN 978-2361932664. The story has several unexpected twists and turns. It builds and builds, and gets better and better. I made a lot of highlights during the second half of the book. There are several unexpected moments.