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

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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 ] 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. a b "2015 Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards for Excellence in Children's Literature". www.hbook.com. The Horn Book. 27 May 2015 . Retrieved 22 January 2017. Drabble, Emily (3 April 2014). "Katherine Rundell wins the Waterstones children's book prize 2014". The Guardian. London . Retrieved 23 January 2017.

Presenter: Roger McGough; Producer: Sally Heaven (4 July 2015). "John Donne". Poetry Please. BBC. BBC Radio 4 . Retrieved 22 January 2017. Trees dipped into the water on either side of them, like curtains at the theatre, Fred thought, the river as the stage. Two bright birds with yellow bellies flapped overhead. ‘Blue Macaws’ said Lila…This had all the warmth and wit of Katherine Rundell’s previous books. I adored Rooftoppers, and I liked this one too. Perhaps not as much, though - this one didn’t feel quite as effortlessly funny and unique. However, that being said, my overall experience of reading this book was pure enjoyment, and I think it is a book that lots of young readers will really love. I would say that this is a children’s book written with children in mind. Heroes don’t exist, boy – they’re inventions made up of newsprint and quotable lines and photogenic moustaches.” a b c d Bradbury, Lorna (25 April 2014). "Katherine Rundell: children's novelist and thrill-seeker". The Daily Telegraph. London . Retrieved 22 January 2017. A guide took them into the jungle, showed them ways to survive – how to eat cocoa moth grubs, find pineapples, catch piranhas and tarantulas. “We spent quite a lot of time hiking through the rainforest itself, which was beautiful and fascinatingly discombobulating. It shakes you a little bit, to be so aware of being somewhere which is not your element. Our guide said: ‘Point west’, and usually I would be able to do that from the sun. And then he said, after about 10 minutes of walking, which was a bit more frightening, ‘Point to where the boat is.’ And I was in absolutely the wrong direction.”

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. Prix Sorcières - Lauréats 2015: Romans Juniors - Lauréat". www.abf.asso.fr. Association des Bibliothécaires de France. 4 April 2016 . Retrieved 22 April 2017.The children, and other characters, drink, smoke, steal and tattoo themselves with knives. This is all dealt with quite tactfully, as would be expected from a children’s book, but it does mean the book is more suited to the far end of upper primary school and beyond. It’s funny,’ said Con… ‘The birds here make the birds in England look like they’re dressed for a job interview.’” And all of you - do not forget that, lost out here, you were brave even in your sleep. Do not forget to take risks. Standing ovations await your bravery,' Con swallowed. 'But I'm afraid,' she whispered. The Explorer nodded, scarred and dusty and matter-of-fact. 'You are right to be afraid. Be brave anyway.' My class all loved the character Con. One of my children liked how he hated Con at the beginning and warmed up to her, to the point at which she is now his favourite character. My class found Max revolting, and it was particularly enjoyable watching them all squirm. Themes Education Shed Ltd, Severn House, Severn Bridge, Riverside North, Bewdley, Worcestershire, UK, DY12 1AB

a b Allardice, Lisa (18 November 2022). "Interview: 'Taking life advice from John Donne would be disastrous' – the roof-walking, trapeze-flying Baillie Gifford winner". The Guardian. And speaking of middle-grade books. I take issue with the use of foul language here. It's one thing to refer to someone as swearing. I can handle that in a middle-grade book. But please don't actually type out the word. It makes it so I can't recommend the book to some kids. This book also included kids smoking, drinking, and giving themselves tattoos. Ummm...yeah...no. The Good Thieves. Illustrated by Matt Saunders. Bloomsbury Children's Books. 13 June 2019. ISBN 978-1408854891. {{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: others ( link) 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. Some nice ideas in there, ok for Year 3/4 but not really suitable for an ambitious Year 5 curriculum. Long writing pieces spread over a week but could really be one or two lessons. All lessons well resourced, but there are free versions of this on TES which are equally as good.

Rooftoppers. Illustrated by Terry Fan. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers. 24 September 2013. ISBN 978-1442490581. {{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: others ( link) 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”. The Story is about this boy he is called Fred. He went on a plane because his mum and dad had to go somewhere? But then their plane crashed into the jungle. The pilot died, so they were on there own but Fred met some people, there names where Lila Cone Max. 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. 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”.

McElroy, Steven (26 August 2016). " 'Life According to Saki,' a Play Set in World War I, Wins Edinburgh Award". The New York Times. New York City . Retrieved 23 January 2017. Fred es un niño inglés, del que todo el mundo dice que es un niño tranquilo y sensato, pero que siempre ha soñado con ser explorador. Ahora tiene que demostrarse a si mismo si realmente tiene madera de explorador. Please don't watch/listen to/read chapters 2 (The Green Dark) -13 (Smoke) until you have had your first Book Group. 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. Helen Dunmore wins posthumous Costa poetry prize". BBC News Online. 2 January 2018 . Retrieved 2 January 2018.Katherine Rundell (born 1987) is an English author and academic. She is the author of Rooftoppers, which in 2015 won both the overall Waterstones Children's Book Prize [1] and the Blue Peter Book Award for Best Story, [2] and was short-listed for the Carnegie Medal. [3] She is a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford [4] and has appeared as an expert guest on BBC Radio 4 programmes including Start the Week, [5] Poetry Please, [6] Seriously.... [7] and Private Passions. [8] Katherine Rundell was born in 1987 and grew up in Africa and Europe. In 2008 she was elected a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. Her first book, The Girl Savage, was born of her love of Zimbabwe and her own childhood there; her second, Rooftoppers, was inspired by summers working in Paris and by night-time trespassing on the rooftops of All Souls. She is currently working on her doctorate alongside an adult novel. 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]