British children ‘have less space’ to be kids, award-winning author says
The rise of the celebrity author has come to dominate children’s literature in the last decades a genre all too often sidelined within literary circles until now step forward one of the most talked about authors of 2023 Katherine Rondell who seems to have come up with a compelling new fantasy novel that’s seen
Her likened to literary Titans like Jr Tolen Philip Pullman and CS Lewis NAIA is it’s in my bones and skin and fingernails you know when you read a children’s book sometimes it can be like a kind of defibrillator for the imagination an Oxford fellow her grounding in Academia is apparent her
Latest work packed full of the mythical creatures she’s researched over the years to tell the story of a race to save that which is beautiful an underlying nod to our own environment I think I wanted to say to the children reading it your bravery your endurance your courage Your Action will be
Wonderfully worth the time and pain and effort it takes her own childhood by all accounts a magical sounding Affair growing up as she says surrounded by wild monkeys and snakes in Zimbabwe I was allowed to play outside and be without adult supervision and I think in England that is harder and perhaps that
Makes children grow up a little swifter that they have less space in which to be a child the time they need as for the propensity of celebrities writing children’s books Rundle questions the wisdom our current ecosystem does mean that there’s often in some places limited choice and the same names over
And over and I think what we need is to find ways to get variety and scope into children’s hands expects impossible creatures to rank alongside some of the most memorable children’s series with a sequel already in the works and a third on the cards you can’t please every kid
But just a cas occasionally I have kids who come up to me and say I’ve read it and I know it’s not real obviously it’s not real but is it real already being hailed a modern classic as Rundle says at its best children’s fiction gives young people a
Blueprint for what it might be to be happy Katy Spencer Sky News
Award-winning children’s author Katherine Rundell says she fears young people in Britain “have less space in which to be a child”.
Speaking to Sky News after her fantasy book Impossible Creatures was named 2023 Waterstones Book of the Year, the writer – who’s been likened to literary titans such as JRR Tolkien and Philip Pullman – reflected on her own early years growing up overseas.
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On 12 July 927 the monarchs of Britain gathered at Eamont in Cumbria to recognise Æthelstan as king of the English, although the process of unification had taken almost 100 years. England has remained in political unity ever since.
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Maybe because people have been allowed to push their agendas in classrooms?
Rubbish!! They have infinite virtue space!! Hello!!! 😂😂😂
They can identify as pansexual "they them" kittens what more freedom do they need 😂
How many celebrities actually write their books? This I would like to know; and would be very newsworthy to me.
That's because they are constantly being told they have to make make all these decisions about who and what they are the moment they start going to school and have more and more pressure to get good exam results feeling they will fail in life if they don't.
Nobody cares whens The Epstein list coming out
Sounds like privilege, comes from privilege
Yea the helicopter parent epidemic is causing harm.
This woman is so strange. Seems a bit fake.
Poor shouldn’t have space anyway
Her voice is lovely im getting ASMR from this
So whose fault is THAT?
Less “social media” would be a good start as would less immigration.
It’s all the social engineering purging the patriarchal family out of them.