This will not affect your buying experience or the cost of any products you order. She followed this with The Wolf Wilder, The Explorer, which won the Costa Book Award, One Christmas Wish, Into the Jungle, and The Good Thieves - a story about a heist in 1920s New York where a group of children will do anything to right a wrong.Īuthorfy are an Amazon Associate and are part of the Waterstones, and Peters Affiliate Programmes, so may earn a small commission from qualifying purchases if you click-through to their websites from any links on. A fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, Katherine wrote Rooftoppers - a novel influenced by her own hobby of clambering on Oxford’s college roofs - whilst studying for her masters. Born in Kent, Katherine grew up in Zimbabwe and her experiences of her life there and of leaving to move to Brussels when she was 14 were a strong influence on her first novel, The Girl Savage, which she wrote when she was just 21. One of the most inventive and original authors of children’s fiction writing today, Katherine Rundell’s writing career was spearheaded by Waterstones who awarded her The Waterstones Children’s Book Prize in 2014 for her novel Rooftoppers. She followed this with The Wolf Wilder, The Explorer, which won the Costa Book Award, One Christmas Wish, Into the Jungle, and The Good Thieves - a story about a heist in 1920s New York where a group of children will do anything to right a wrong. She lives mostly in London and a little in Oxford, where she works on research into the Renaissance poet John Donne and occasionally goes climbing on rooftops late at night. Her books have won, among others awards, the Waterstones Children's Book Prize, the Blue Peter Book Award, the Boston Globe Horn Book Award in America, the Andersen Prize in Italy and Le Prix Sorcières in France. Katherine Rundell, The Wolf Wilder This is 1917 and revolution is. Wolves, like children, are not meant to lead calm lives. They all bear the scars human and wolf - but these make them stronger and more prepared to face what is coming.

Katherine Rundell is an award-winning children's writer and a Fellow in English Literature at All Souls College, Oxford. But wolf wilder Marina, with Feo’s help, has helped the creatures discover how to be wolves.

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