Katherine Rundell

«Primero fue Tolkien, luego llegó Pullman, y ahora es el turno de Katherine Rundell.» Michael Morpurgo «Katherine Rundell es un fenómeno.» Neil Gaiman Ganador del Premio Waterstones al Mejor Libro de

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Winner of the Costa Children's Book Award 2017 'I loved The Explorer' Jacqueline Wilson 'Rundell is now unarguably in the FIRST RANK' Philip Pullman From his seat in the tiny aeroplane, Fred watches as the mysteries of the Amazon jungle pass by below him. He has always dreamed of becoming an explorer, of making history and of reading his name amongst the lists of great discoveries. If only he could land and look about him. As the plane crashes into the canopy, Fred is suddenly left without a choice. He and the three other children may be alive, but the jungle is a vast, untamed place. With no hope of rescue, the chance of getting home feels impossibly small. Except, it seems, someone has been there before them ...

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***EDICIÓN CON CANTOS TINTADOS*** «Primero fue Tolkien, luego llegó Pullman, y ahora es el turno de Katherine Rundell.» Michael Morpurgo «Katherine Rundell es un fenómeno.» Neil Gaiman Ganador del Pr

The dragons call out, and the ratatoskas tell of murder. Come with us now. There is justice to be done.Return to the magic of the Archipelago... The Poisoned King is the dazzling second book in Katherine Rundell's epic and bestselling Impossible Creatures series.'There was Tolkien, there is Pullman and now there is Katherine Rundell' - Michael MorpurgoWhen Christopher Forrester is unexpectedly woken by a miniature dragon chewing on his face, his heart leaps for joy. For months he's dreamed of returning to the Archipelago - the secret islands where all the creatures of myth still live. But he did not know it would involve a rescue mission on the back of a sphinx, or a plan to enter a dragon's lair. Nor did he imagine it would involve a girl with a flock of birds at her side, a new-hatched chick in her pocket and a ravenous hunger for justice...

A rare and magical book. I didnt want it to end. Bill BrysonA total miracle. Max PorterA witty, intoxicating paean to Earths wondrous creatures.ObserverRundells pen is gold-tipped.Sunday Times** SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR **The world is more astonishing, more miraculous and more wonderful than our wildest imaginings.In this passionately persuasive and sharply funny book, Katherine Rundell tells us how and why.A lavishly illustrated collection of the lives of some of the Earths most astounding animals, The Golden Mole is a chance to be awestruck and lovestruck - to reckon with the beauty of the world, its fragility, and its strangeness.A swift flies two million kilometres in its lifetime. Thats far enough to get to the moon and back twice over - and then once more to the moon. A pangolin keeps its tongue furled in a pouch by its hip, a Greenland shark can live five hundred years, a wombat once inspired a love poem.

**A Sunday Times top ten bestseller****Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award 2023****Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize for Non-Fiction 2023****Shortlisted for the Slightly Foxed First Biography Prize 2023**Masterly.ObserverWonderful, joyous. Maggie OFarrellFrankly brilliant.Sunday TimesUnmissable. Simon JenkinsEvery page sparkles. Claire TomalinA triumph. Matt HaigStylish, scholarly and gripping. Rose TremainJohn Donne lived myriad lives. Sometime religious outsider and social disaster, sometime celebrity preacher and establishment darling, Donne was incapable of being just one thing.He was a scholar of law, a sea adventurer, an MP, a priest, the Dean of St Pauls Cathedral - and perhaps the greatest love poet in the history of the English language.In Super-Infinite, Katherine Rundell shows us the many sides of Donnes extraordinary life, his obsessions, his blazing words, and his tempestuous Elizabethan times - unveiling Donne as the most remarkable mind and as a lesson in living.Katherine Rundells book Super-Infinite was a Sunday Times Bestseller w/c 16-04-2022

Winner of the Blue Peter Book Award and the Waterstones Children''s Book Prize, and shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal.Already being proclaimed a classic in children''s literature and compared to the likes of Roald Dahl and Eva Ibbotson, Katherine Rundell''s Rooftoppers merges fantasy and historical fiction with sophisticated lyrical prose and vivid imagery that will delight middle grade readers, tweens, teens, and parents and teachers alike.Join plucky heroine Sophie, her eccentric guardian Charles, and her intrepid orphan allies on the rooftops of Victorian Paris, as they encounter suspense and adventure that will keep kids of all ages on the edge of their seats right to the heartwarming end.My mother is still alive, and she is going to come for me one day.Everyone thinks that Sophie is an orphan. Found floating in a cello case and swaddled in a Beethoven score, she is the only recorded female survivor of a shipwreck on the English Channel. But Sophie remembers seeing her mother wave for help...Charles, a fellow survivor and an eccentric scholar, finds Sophie and brings her home to his London bachelor flat. Raised in a quirky home filled with music, words and love (though questionable diet), Sophie grows into a free-spirited tomboy with a taste for Shakespeare and the unshakeable belief that anything is possible. And you should never ignore a possible.So when the child welfare agency in its bureaucratic wisdom threatens to send Sophie to an orphanage, the optimistic girl and her odd guardian flee to Paris on a quest to find her mother, starting with the only clue she has - the address of the cello maker.

It was a very fine day, until something tried to eat him.A boy called Christopher is visiting his reclusive grandfather when he witnesses an avalanche of mythical creatures come tearing down the hill. This is how Christopher learns that his grandfather is the guardian of one of the ways between the non-magical world and a place called the Archipelago, a cluster of magical islands where all the creatures we tell of in myth live and breed and thrive alongside humans. They have been protected from being discovered for thousands of years; now, terrifyingly, the protection has worn thin, and creatures are breaking through.Then a girl, Mal, appears in Christophers world. She is in possession of a flying coat, is being pursued by a killer and is herself in pursuit of a baby griffin. Mal, Christopher and the griffin embark on an urgent quest across the wild splendour of the Archipelago, where sphinxes hold secrets and centaurs do murder, to find the truthwith unimaginable consequences for both their worlds. Together the two must face the problem of power, and of knowledge, and of what love demands of us.

Vita set her jaw, and nodded at New York City in greeting, as a boxer greets an opponent before a fight.Fresh off the boat from England, Vita Marlowe has a job to do. Her beloved grandfather Jack has been cheated out of his home and possessions by a notorious conman with Mafia connections. Seeing Jack's spirit is broken, Vita is desperate to make him happy again, so she devises a plan to outwit his enemies and recover his home.She finds a young pickpocket, working the streets of the city. And, nearby, two boys with highly unusual skills and secrets of their own are about to be pulled into her lawless, death-defying plan.Katherine Rundell's fifth novel is a heist as never seen before - the story of a group of children who will do anything to right a wrong.

A rare and magical book. I didn't want it to end.' Bill Bryson'A witty, intoxicating paean to Earth's wondrous creatures.' Observer'A total miracle.' Max Porter'Rundell's pen is gold-tipped.' Sunday TimesThe world is more astonishing, more miraculous and more wonderful than our wildest imaginings. In this passionately persuasive and sharply funny book, Katherine Rundell tells us how and why.A lavishly illustrated collection of the lives of some of the Earth's most astounding animals, The Golden Mole is a chance to be awestruck and lovestruck - to reckon with the beauty of the world, its fragility, and its strangeness.A swift flies two million kilometres in its lifetime. That's far enough to get to the moon and back twice over - and then once more to the moon. A pangolin keeps its tongue furled in a pouch by its hip. A Greenland shark can live five hundred years. A wombat once inspired a love poem.

There was Tolkien there is Pullman and now there is Katherine Rundell Wondrous invention marvellous writing Michael Morpurgo Rundell s first foray into fantasy is both a deft rich homage to the greats of children s literature and an absorbing profoundly poignant quest story for those aged 9 quite possibly her best yet The Guardian A book stuffed full of fantastical magical delight and a world of richly imagined wonder Cressida Cowell WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR WINNER BOOKS ARE MY BAG READERS AWARD WINNER FOYLES CHILDREN S BOOK OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR AMAZON KIDS AND YA BOOK OF THE YEAR THE TIMES CHILDREN S BOOK OF THE WEEK THE INDEPENDENT CHILDREN S BOOK OF THE WEEK THE DAILY TELEGRAPH CHILDREN S BOOK OF THE WEEK SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER IN SEPTEMBER 2023There s a place where all the wildest stories began From Katherine Rundell winner of the Costa Children s Book Award the Blue Peter Book Award and the Waterstones Children s Book Prize comes the first novel in a landmark trilogy for 9 fans of His Dark MaterialsChristopher is stunned when he discovers a passage to the Archipelago a cluster of magical islands where all the creatures of myth still live and breed and thrive in their thousands There he meets Mal a girl from th

A gloriously illustrated and fascinating bestiary of the world s most extraordinary endangered animals

* Quan una zebra apareix a la plaça on viu la Visi, i descobreix que els seus pares han estat capturats pel malvat Spit, sap que li toca ajudar. El senyor Spit els la té jurada, però amb valentia i u

A lavish edition of Katherine Rundell s gloriously illustrated and fascinating bestiary featuring three new additions to the treasure trove of vanishing wonders Exquisite and timely Maggie O Farrell A rare and magical book I didn t want it to end Bill Bryson A witty intoxicating paean to Earth s wondrous creatures Observer A total miracle Max Porter A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES AND FOYLES BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDS SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING The world is more astonishing more miraculous and more wonderful than our wildest imaginings A pangolin s tongue is longer than its body It keeps it furled in a nifty pouch near the hip A swift flies 200 000 miles in its lifetime That s far enough to get to the moon and back then back to the moon There s a fable that storks deliver babies In fact the Nazis used them to air drop propaganda A lavishly illustrated compendium of the staggering lives of some of the world s most endangered animals this sumptuous expanded and updated edition of The Golden Mole is a chance to be awestruck and lovestruck to fall for the likes of the wondrous pygmy hippo the seahorse the narwhal and as astonishing and endangered as them all the human Katherine R

The dragons call out, and the ratatoskas tell of murder. Come with us now. There is justice to be done.Return to the magic of the Archipelago... The Poisoned King is the dazzling second book in Katherine Rundell's epic and bestselling Impossible Creatures series.'There was Tolkien, there is Pullman and now there is Katherine Rundell' - Michael MorpurgoWhen Christopher Forrester is unexpectedly woken by a miniature dragon chewing on his face, his heart leaps for joy. For months he's dreamed of returning to the Archipelago - the secret islands where all the creatures of myth still live. But he did not know it would involve a rescue mission on the back of a sphinx, or a plan to enter a dragon's lair. Nor did he imagine it would involve a girl with a flock of birds at her side, a new-hatched chick in her pocket and a ravenous hunger for justice...