The Book of Hopes
Words and Pictures to Comfort, Inspire and Entertain
(Author) Katherine RundellFirst published online to comfort, inspire and entertain children during lockdown, Katherine Rundell’s collection of over 100 works from the best authors and illustrators of children’s books has been read by almost half a million people. A donation from the sale of each book will go to NHS Charities Together
Katherine Rundell
Katherine Rundell, born on 10 July 1987, is an English author and academic known for her celebrated children's books and literary contributions. Her book Impossible Creatures was named Book of the Year in 2023. Another notable work, Rooftoppers, won both the Waterstones Children's Book Prize and the Blue Peter Book Award in 2015 and was a Carnegie Medal finalist. Rundell, a Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, has appeared on BBC Radio 4 programs like Start the Week and Poetry Please.
Her other books include The Girl Savage (released as Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms in the U.S.), which won the 2015 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for fiction, The Wolf Wilder, and The Explorer, winner of the 2017 Costa Book Award for children’s books. In 2022, her book Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne won the Baillie Gifford Prize, making her the award’s youngest recipient.
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