Why You Should Read Children’s Books... | Katherine RundellKatherine 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.

the final book in the series

he needs to summon all his inner strength and courage to get back to a place of safety

Anna recounts the absurdities she's experienced on her way to and from the heart of pop culture as only she can - from her unusual path to the performing arts (her older brother's affinity for Vanilla Ice may have inadvertently launched her career) to her double life as a middle-school student who also starred on Broadway to her initial 'dating experiments' (including only liking boys who didn't like her back) to the perils of reading The Shining while filming Twilight in the isolated Canadian wilderness to reviewing a binder full of butt doubles to her struggle to live like an adult woman instead of a perpetual 'man-child'

But for Elliot

Until one day

childlike Lennie is a victim of his own strength

As summer turns to autumn and a new school year begins

'Say hello' cat or 'let me go' cat

And one day not even George will be able to save him from trouble

and there are as many queer readings of horror films as there are queer people

Kawaguchi once again invites the reader to ask themselves: what would you change if you could travel back in time

transgender people have suddenly become part of the zeitgeist