Go on an adventure with Katherine Rundell ... _______________ NOMINATED FOR THE CILIP CARNEGIE MEDAL NOMINATED FOR THE CILIP GREENAWAY MEDAL From the winner of the Costa Children's Book Award _______________ 'A writer with an utterly distinctive voice and a wild imagination' – Philip Pullman 'A book that will be treasured forever' - Irish Times 'A moving, witty and magical tale' - Sunday Times _______________ It’s Christmas Eve and Theo – left at home with a babysitter – sees an odd-looking star out of his window and decides to make a wish. He wishes that he had some friends to...

Katherine Rundell - Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and prize-winning author of five novels for children - explores how children's books ignite, and can re-ignite, the imagination; how children's fiction, with its unabashed emotion and playfulness, can awaken old hungers and create new perspectives on the world. This delightful and persuasive essay is for adult readers.

Katherine Rundell, the award-winning and bestselling author of The Wolf Wilder and The Explorer, brings the magic of Christmas Eve to life in this modern classic, illustrated in stunning detail by renowned artist Emily Sutton and now available for the first time in a glorious paperback edition

A glittering, page-turning adventure set amidst the streets of New York, this is a modern classic from the Costa Award-winning author of The Explorer, Katherine Rundell - now available in a glorious paperback edition