Katherine Rundell

Una aventura conmovedora con tintes clásicos: intriga, acción, y cierta fantasía donde reina el amor a los libros y a la valentía. Tras hundirse un barco en el Canal de la Mancha, una niña de apenas un año aparece flotando en un estuche de violonchelo y es rescatada por un erudito y aventurero londinense llamado Charles Maxim. De esta forma tan extraordinaria comienza la conmovedora historia de Sophie y Charles, quien, una vez constatada la desaparicion de la madre de la niña, se convierte en su tutor legal. Sin embargo, con el paso del tiempo, se apodera de Sophie la idea de que su madre sobrevivio al naufragio, y aunque Charles le advierte que eso es casi imposible, para ella el casi significa que existe alguna posibilidad, y esta, por remota que sea, jamas debe descartarse. Asi pues, a pesar de que la unica pista que tienen es una direccion parisina grabada en el estuche del chelo, Charles, que lo daria todo por verla feliz, accede a acompañarla a Paris para iniciar la incierta busqueda. Alli, en una noche magica, Sophie conoce a Matteo y sus amigos, unos jovenes vagabundos que recorren la ciudad por los tejados y que enseguida se prestan a ayudarla para que su sueño se haga realidad.Reseña:Una escritora con una voz profundamente personal y una imaginacion fecunda.Philip Pullman

Por la compra de un ejemplar de Criaturas imposibles, llévate tu propio bestiario de regalo. ¡Y conviértete en Guardián del Archipiélago! ***EDICIÓN CON CANTOS TINTADOS***«Primero fue Tolkien, luego

***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

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.

**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 Tremain John 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

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.

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

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

Una de las razones por las que escribí este libro es por el sorprendente asombro que experimentamos al contemplar el mundo natural. Por ejemplo, el topo dorado es el único mamífero iridiscente. Brilla literalmente como el oro, pero es ciego y no puede percibir su propio resplandor. La otra razon era para exponer algo que todos sabemos: estas maravillas estan en peligro de desaparecer y el tiempo para evitarlo se nos acaba. Katherine Rundell El mundo es mas sorprendente y maravilloso de lo que podamos imaginar, y este Atlas de animales asombrosos es un insolito bestiario profusamente ilustrado de algunos de los animales mas asombrosos de la Tierra. Una oportunidad para dejarse admirar por la belleza del mundo, su fragilidad y su extrañeza.

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.

* 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

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...

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...

* Cuando una cebra aparece en la plaza donde vive Visi, y descubre que sus padres han sido capturados por el malvado Spit, sabe que le toca ayudar. Spit se la tiene jurada, pero la valentía y unos maravillosos amigos son infalibles, La aventura de la cebra Gabriel, el perro Arcoiris, Visi y todos sus compañeros, con una gran valentia y determinacion, ¡al rescate! Una historia ilustrada sobre la valentia, la amistad y la importancia de actuar. "Una autora con un talento ilimitado y una imaginacion extraordinaria". The Observer

Go on an adventure with Katherine Rundell FOYLES CHILDREN S BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019From the winner of the Costa Children s Book Award An amazing adventure story told with sparkling style and sleight of hand Jacqueline Wilson Read everything she writes Daily Mail 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

Go on an adventure with Katherine Rundell From the winner of the Costa Children s Book Prize A writer with an utterly distinctive voice and a wild imagination Philip Pullman A truly compelling read totally original Jacqueline Wilson Feodora and her mother live in the snowbound woods of Russia in a house full of food and fireplaces Ten minutes away in a ruined chapel lives a pack of wolves Feodora s mother is a wolf wilder and Feo is a wolf wilder in training A wolf wilder is the opposite of an animal tamer it is a person who teaches tamed animals to fend for themselves and to fight and to run and to be wary of humans When the murderous hostility of the Russian Army threatens her very existence Feo is left with no option but to go on the run What follows is a story of revolution and adventure about standing up for the things you love and fighting back And of course wolves