Hear this, ‘on the importance of children’s literature’:
‘[T]he imagination is not an optional extra.’
‘… we can all meet on the pages of A.A. Milne in a way that we cannot on the pages of Jacques Derrida.’
‘There’s no doubt that reading for pleasure as a child can change your life.’
‘[T]he imagination is not an optional extra.’
‘… we can all meet on the pages of A.A. Milne in a way that we cannot on the pages of Jacques Derrida.’
‘There’s no doubt that reading for pleasure as a child can change your life.’
Reposted from
London Review of Books
‘The greatest children’s fantasies were worth your time when you were twelve, and they are equally worth it now. They remind us that the imagination is not an optional extra.’
Katherine Rundell on the importance of children’s literature: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Katherine Rundell on the importance of children’s literature: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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