The Looking Glass
In a series of five original essays, award-winning writer Katherine Rundell explores the world of children鈥檚 fiction in a journey that reveals its fundamental importance to us all.
In this gripping investigation of children鈥檚 fiction, award-winning author Katherine Rundell makes a passionate argument for a literature that is often underrated, yet whose magic can live on inside us for the rest of our lives. The best children鈥檚 books need to be good enough both for the hungriest child and the wisest, sharpest adult.
In her final original essay, Katherine Rundell argues that children鈥檚 books are not a luxury, but fundamental to our culture and to the society we build. Reading for pleasure can change your life and books can offer a vision of the world as it is, and as it might be. So we have to fight to ensure that all children have the opportunity to seek out books.
Katherine Rundell is an acclaimed writer for children, winning Author of the Year and Book of the Year for Impossible Creatures at the British Book Awards 2024 and winner of the Costa Children鈥檚 Book Award.
Written and presented by Katherine Rundell
Producer: Jo Glanville
Editor: Kirsten Lass
Production Co-ordinator: Heather Dempsey
Studio Engineer: Dan King
A Loftus Media Production for 成人快手 Radio 4
Photo credit: Nina Subin
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