Why You Should Read Children's Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise

Katherine 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.