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Katherine Rundell

Katherine Rundell

Katherine Rundell spent her childhood in Africa and Europe. After completing a degree in English and a doctorate on John Donne, she is now a full-time writer and a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, where she studies Renaissance literature and climbs old buildings at night. Katherine is the bestselling author of The Wolf Wilder and Rooftoppers, which won the Waterstones Children's Book Prize and the Blue Peter Book Award and was shortlisted for many others. In 2017 Katherine won the Costa Children's Book Award for The Explorer. She has also been selected as one of the Aarhus39 - 39 of the leading children's writers from across Europe - and one of the Hay30 'writers and thinkers'.

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  • Into the Jungle

    Into the Jungle: Stories for Mowgli

    Author: Katherine Rundell Illustrator: Kristjana S Williams
    Publisher: Macmillan Children’s Books
    Interest age: 7-10
    Reading age: 7+

    Inspired by Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book, this splendid collection of five short stories focuses on a variety of characters from the original tale. Full of stylish illustrations and a hardback cover, it would make a stunning gift book.

  • One Christmas Wish

    One Christmas Wish

    Author: Katherine Rundell Illustrator: Emily Sutton
    Publisher: Bloomsbury
    Interest age: 6-9
    Reading age: 7+

    One Christmas Wish has the right amount of charm and mischief to delight young readers, and Emily Sutton’s beautiful illustrations evoke the Christmases we dream of: cosy, colourful and magical.

  • Rooftoppers

    Rooftoppers

    Author: Katherine Rundell
    Publisher: Faber and Faber
    Interest age: 9+
    Reading age: 11+

    Following an elusive cello melody over the rooftops of Paris, Sophie is determined to find her long lost mother, before it is too late.

  • The Girl Savage

    The Girl Savage

    Author: Katherine Rundell
    Publisher: Faber Children's Books
    Interest age: 12+
    Reading age: 10+

    When Wilhelmina Silver's home is sold, she is torn from her best friend, her adopted monkey and her pet horse, and banished to an inhospitable boarding school in England.

  • The Good Thieves

    The Good Thieves

    Author: Katherine Rundell
    Publisher: Bloomsbury
    Interest age: 9-11
    Reading age: 9+

    If you try to steal back something that has been taken from your family by trickery, is that a crime or is it justice? A thrilling adventure, set in 1920s New York, rich in period detail and tensely dramatic moments.

  • The Wolf Wilder

    The Wolf Wilder

    Author: Katherine Rundell
    Publisher: Bloomsbury

    When the murderous hostility of the Russian Army threatens her very existence, Feo is left with no option but to go on the run. What follows is a story of revolution and adventure, about standing up for the things you love and fighting back. And, of course, wolves.

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