The Explorer: WINNER OF THE COSTA CHILDREN'S BOOK AWARD

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In 2022, she published Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne, which won the 2022 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction [24] [25] and was praised by Claire Tomalin and Andrew Motion, among others. [26] What distinguishes Rundell's biography and makes it worth reading is, according to Professor of English Literature Joe Moshenska in Literary Review, that she is above all a writer, well-versed in the art of prose: "Rather than telling us why Donne is worth reading and absorbing into one’s way of thinking, her writing shows us." [27] Oddly, I had a really hard time getting into this one. It's right up my alley, so I'm not sure exactly why that was. My best guess is that this book read just like watching a movie. You could see every move people made, and hear what they said, and experience what they saw...but it didn't have the depth that I expect in a book. Yes, even a middle-grade book. Presenter: John Wilson (broadcaster) Producer: Hilary Dunn (3 January 2018). "Neil Cross, Katherine Rundell, Book prize judging". Front Row. 11:55 minutes in. BBC. BBC Radio 4 . Retrieved 3 January 2018. From an ape getting involved in a murder case to schoolgirl cat burglars and mysteries taking place across the world, there are some brilliant capers out there just waiting to be devoured. The Wolf Wilder, about a girl and her mother who teach tamed wolves how to be wild in the forests of Russia, followed, written while she completed a master’s that focused on palaeography, forgery and John Donne. Her PhD was on “Renaissance literature more broadly, how Donne interacted with it, how people who came after Donne forged and imitated and alluded to and were inspired by his work”.

I think I struggled to understand what the story was about - whether it was one of conservation or one of voyage and return. The concept itself was wonderful and I have no doubt that children will love getting lost in the jungle with Fred, Lila, Max and Con but I just couldn't connected with the characters themselves and wanted to - characters are what Rundell excels at. As reported by The Guardian, "She is giving the Baillie Gifford prize money to charity: to Blue Ventures, an ocean-based conservation organisation, and also to a refugee charity. The reason? 'No man is an island,' she says, citing that most famous of all Donne lines." [11] Personal life [ edit ] Every human on this earth is an explorer. Exploring is nothing more than paying attention, writ large. Attention. That’s what the world asks of you. IF you pay ferocious attention to the world, So she spent her early 20s in a heady mix of academia and children’s fiction. The Girl Savage was acquired by Faber while she was still 21, “in a sort of whirlwind”. Rooftoppers, which won the Blue Peter book award as well as the Waterstones, followed The Girl Savage and drew on the Shakespeare paper she was teaching undergraduates. It opens with a baby floating in a cello case in the middle of the Channel, and Rundell describes it as “a play on Twelfth Night to an extent, in that her mother disguises herself as a boy to go on a ship, and then washes up on a foreign shore”. I have always loved poetry in the way you love swimming in the sea or running or eating,” she says, quoting a line from Margaret Edson’s play Wit, that Donne “makes Shakespeare sound like a Hallmark card”.Oh. and one more thing. I didn't like the ending. I suppose they wanted us to still feel the mystery, but I felt it was frustrating to feel like the answer to the mystery was RIGHT THERE and they wouldn't tell us. Annoying. I was able to get this as an audiobook from the library for us to listen to rather than (as usual) reading it aloud. The narrator was good, and did a decent job with the voices of the various characters. Presenter: Mary Beard; Producer: Adele Armstrong (6 July 2016). "You May Now Turn Over Your Papers". Seriously…. BBC. BBC Radio 4 . Retrieved 22 January 2017.

It’s funny,’ said Con… ‘The birds here make the birds in England look like they’re dressed for a job interview.’” Contia es una niña pija, solitaria y altiva, acostumbrada a arreglárselas sola pero rodeada de comodidades. Ahora deberá ampliar sus horizontes, ver más allá de su ambiente conocido.How CAWPILE didn't come out as five stars I don't know. This book isn't perfect but it's pretty damn close! There are many messages in this book and its hard to say what they are without spoiling the book, but there is the message of love being important, the important of caring for people, and the message that you are perfect just the way you are - never let anyone change you.

Auf "Mitten im Dschungel" war ich schon sehr gespannt, da ich Survivalszenarien schon immer sehr gern gemocht habe. Hier habe ich mir eine Geschichte voller Abenteuer gewünscht und diese auch bekommen, sodass mir das Buch gut gefallen hat. There is the very occasional use of low-level adult language. A few times the narrator also mentions that the characters were swearing, but without actually stating the specific words. None of this should cause too much of a problem in class, but it’s worth considering if you have very sensitive or younger children. Despite the unfortunate absence of suspense, Rundell makes up for the bland narrative by occasionally employing vivid language to describe the jungle:The story has several unexpected twists and turns. It builds and builds, and gets better and better. I made a lot of highlights during the second half of the book. There are several unexpected moments. Rundell's fifth novel, The Good Thieves, tells the story of a girl named Vita who travels from England to New York with her mother to look after her grieving grandfather. Moshenska, Joe (29 March 2022). "The Poet and the Whale". Literary Review . Retrieved 28 February 2023. Fisher, Philip (3 August 2016). "Life According to Saki". British Theatre Guide . Retrieved 23 January 2017.

The Explorer. Illustrated by Hannah Horn. Bloomsbury Publishing, 1 September 2017. ISBN 9781408854877 [29] She completed her undergraduate studies at St Catherine's College, Oxford (2005 – 2008). During this period she developed an interest in rooftop climbing, [15] inspired by a 1937 book, The Night Climbers of Cambridge, about the adventures of undergraduate students at that university. [14] Academic career [ edit ] Rundell, Katherine (28 August 2014) [first published 2013 in English as Rooftoppers by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers]. Le ciel nous appartient. Translated by Ghez, Emmanuelle. Les Grandes Personnes. ISBN 978-2361932664. Danger hides around every corner as we follow the children on their perilous journey. In terms of pacing, The Explorer is quite a strange one, with a high degree of variation in the chapter lengths at times; this allowed me to read the longer chapters to my class to keep the story flowing, and use the shorter chapters for my children to work on. Running through the entire book is a strong appreciation of nature and its multi-faceted beauty. I won’t give anything away, but keep an eye out for the journey down the river, and the journey towards the cliff, and you’ll see exactly what I mean.Rundell's play Life According to Saki, with David Paisley in the title role, [19] won the 2016 Carol Tambor Best of Edinburgh Award [20] and opened Off-Broadway in February 2017. [14]