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New Releases by Katherine Rundell

Katherine Rundell is the author of Why You Should Read Children's Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise (2026), The Neverfear (2026), Impossible Creatures (2026), Criaturas imposibles 2. El rey envenenado (2025), The Poisoned King (2025).

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Why You Should Read Children's Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise

release date: Sep 01, 2026
Why You Should Read Children's Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise
A celebration, in a pocket-sized format, of the joys and vital importance of children''s literature for adult readers, from the #1 New York Times Bestselling author of Impossible Creatures. Katherine Rundell, one of the most accomplished modern children’s writers, offers an extended essay about the pleasures and benefits of reading children’s literature as an adult. Rundell 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. Infinitely wise and thought provoking, Rundell’s short book is a perfect one-sitting read, and a terrific gift for the book-lover in your life.

The Neverfear

release date: Aug 27, 2026
The Neverfear
''A world of richly-imagined wonder'' Cressida Cowell It''s the Midsummer Feast on the Islet of Glimt and on this magical moonlit evening, the word on everyone''s lips is bandits. Reports of masked men burning villages are spreading throughout the Archipelago, but worse is still to come: Christopher and Anya are ambushed and one of the people they love most is kidnapped. The two children - alongside Ratwin the ratatoska and Jacques the Jaculus dragon - set sail on the Neverfear to recover three precious treasures. Together they must face fearsome giants, win a daring race, and outwit deadly enemies to save those they love most. Discover the magic of Katherine Rundell in the most hotly-anticipated book of the year - the third adventure in the internationally bestselling Impossible Creatures series. Adorned with beautiful blue foil, this hardcover edition makes for a perfect gift. Awards and praise for Impossible Creatures WINNER Waterstones Book of the Year WINNER British Book Awards Children''s Book of the Year WINNER Foyles Children''s Book of the Year WINNER Books Are My Bag Readers Award ''A book stuffed full of fantastical, magical delight'' - Cressida Cowell ''Readers will seize this with delight'' - Philip Pullman ''A masterpiece to rival Tolkien'' - Daily Telegraph ''Every sentence sparkles ... Magnificent'' - The Times

Impossible Creatures

release date: Jul 15, 2026

Criaturas imposibles 2. El rey envenenado

release date: Nov 12, 2025
Criaturas imposibles 2. El rey envenenado
El Archipiélago te espera de nuevo Cuando Christopher Forrester se despierta inesperadamente con un dragón diminuto mordiéndole la cara, su corazón da un salto de alegría. Durante meses ha soñado con regresar al Archipiélago, el conjunto de islas secretas donde aún habitan todas las criaturas de la mitología. Lo que no esperaba era verse envuelto en una misión de rescate a lomos de una esfinge, ni tener que infiltrarse en la guarida de un dragón. Tampoco imaginaba que compartiría la aventura con una chica acompañada por una bandada de aves, un polluelo recién salido del cascarón en el bolsillo... y un hambre insaciable de justicia.

The Poisoned King

release date: Sep 11, 2025
The Poisoned King
Return to the magic of the Archipelago in the dazzling sequel to the runaway, #1 New York Times bestseller Impossible Creatures, hailed as “an instant classic” (Katherine Applegate, Newbery Medal Winner for The One and Only Ivan)! *This spectacular book features foil and embossing on the jacket, full-color designed endpapers, and brilliant stained edges* Christopher Forrester woke to find a dragon chewing on his face—and his heart leapt for joy! He’d been dreaming of going back to the Archipelago, the secret cluster of islands where all the creatures of myth still live, and here was his summons. But there is a poison spreading in the Archipelago. Rooting it out will involve a daring rescue mission on the back of a sphinx, a stealthy entrance to a dragon’s lair, and a death-defying plan to save a prisoner held in the heart of a castle. At the center of this storm is Anya: a small girl with a flock of birds at her side, a new-hatched chick in her pocket, and a ravenous hunger for justice. Katherine Rundell’s second thrilling installment in the Impossible Creatures series involves castles, dragons, and revenge—the things of which great stories are made. The splendors within are brought to life with more than fifty illustrations, including a map and a bestiary of magical creatures.

Vanishing Treasures

release date: Nov 12, 2024
Vanishing Treasures
A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK FROM BOSTON GLOBE, CHICAGO TRIBUNE, AND MORE! • From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Katherine Rundell comes a “rare and magical book” (Bill Bryson) reckoning with the vanishing wonders of our natural world "This celebration of seahorses, lemurs, and others doubles as a wake-up call: look around and protect what you love.” —Boston Globe The world is more astonishing, more miraculous, and more wonderful than our wildest imaginings. In this brilliant and passionately persuasive book, Katherine Rundell takes us on a globe-spanning tour of the world''s most awe-inspiring animals currently facing extinction. Consider the seahorse: couples mate for life and meet each morning for a dance, pirouetting and changing colors before going their separate ways, to dance again the next day. The American wood frog survives winter by allowing itself to freeze solid, its heartbeat slowing until it stops altogether. Come spring, the heart kick-starts itself spontaneously back to life. As for the lemur, it lives in matriarchal troops led by an alpha female (it’s not unusual for female ring-tailed lemurs to slap males across the face when they become aggressive). Whenever they are cold or frightened, they group together in what’s known as a lemur ball, paws and tails intertwined, to form a furry mass as big as a bicycle wheel. But each of these extraordinary animals is endangered or holds a sub-species that is endangered. This urgent, inspiring book of essays dedicated to 23 unusual and underappreciated creatures is a clarion call insisting that we look at the world around us with new eyes—to see the magic of the animals we live among, their unknown histories and capabilities, and above all how lucky we are to tread the same ground as such vanishing treasures. Beautifully illustrated, and full of inimitable wit and intellect, Vanishing Treasures is a chance to be awestruck and lovestruck, to reckon with the beauty of the world, its fragility, and its strangeness.

The Zebra's Great Escape

release date: Aug 20, 2024
The Zebra's Great Escape
In the vein of Islandborn and If Dominican Were a Color comes a picture book by bestselling author Katherine Rundell about a zebra trying to get back home to his family and the little girl who helps him. Mink doesn’t believe in rules. She loves letting her hair down and getting the most out of life. So when a loose zebra appears in the square where she lives—and she finds out that his parents have been captured by the evil Mr. Spit—she’ll do what it takes to make sure the zebra family can run as wild and free as she does. In this tale of bravery, friendship, and the importance of taking action, Mink uses all her courage and determination to rescue a whole menagerie of animals.

The Golden Mole and Other Vanishing Treasure

release date: Nov 02, 2023
The Golden Mole and Other Vanishing Treasure
A gloriously illustrated and fascinating bestiary of the world''s most extraordinary endangered animals.

Wonderbaarlijke dieren

release date: Mar 30, 2023
Wonderbaarlijke dieren
Schitterend bestiarium voor jong en oud Een gierzwaluw vliegt tijdens zijn leven een afstand van twee miljoen kilometer. Even ver als twee keer heen en weer naar de maan, en nog een keertje terug naar de maan. Ooit kreeg de koning van Frankrijk een giraffe cadeau. Die paradeerde door de straten van Parijs in de mooiste hautecoutureregenjas van dat moment. De tong van een schubdier is langer dan zijn lichaam. Hij zit netjes opgeborgen bij zijn heupgewricht. In Wonderbaarlijke dieren (die echt bestaan) zijn eenentwintig van de meest fascinerende, wonderschone schepsels verzameld die onze aarde bevolken en helaas met uitsterven worden bedreigd. Katherine Rundell beschrijft ze op geestige en scherpzinnige wijze en nodigt de lezer uit om nog beter naar onze fragiele en onwaarschijnlijk mooie planeet te kijken.

Ein unvorstellbar unsinniges Abenteuer

release date: Jan 09, 2023
Ein unvorstellbar unsinniges Abenteuer
Endlich im Taschenbuch: der neue Abenteuerroman von Katherine Rundell! Spannend und mitreißend - für alle, die "Wells & Wong" lieben! Kaum ist Vita mit ihrer Mutter in New York gelandet, fordert sie auch schon den stadtbekannten Betrüger Victor Sorrotore heraus. Schließlich hat der ihren Großvater um das Familienanwesen gebracht. Vita schwört Rache und schmiedet zusammen mit einer Taschendiebin und zwei Jungen vom Zirkus einen ausgeklügelten Plan, um das Haus oder doch zumindest den Smaragd ihres Großvaters zurückzuholen. Ein unvorstellbar unsinniges Abenteuer beginnt. Ein Buch voll unerwarteter Wendungen, waschechter Zirkustiere und halsbrecherischer Akrobatik, dazu vier wunderbare Freunde, die gemeinsam einen echten Bösewicht bekämpfen. Das perfekte Lesevergnügen!

Capriole sotto il temporale. Uniform Edit.

release date: Jan 01, 2023

Super-Infinite

release date: Sep 06, 2022
Super-Infinite
Winner of the 2022 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction Winner of the 2022 Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize Shortlisted for the 2023 Plutarch Award A Wall Street Journal Top 10 Best Book of 2022 A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, Times Literary Supplement, and Literary Hub From the standout scholar Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite presents a sparkling and very modern biography of John Donne: the poet of love, sex, and death. Sometime religious outsider and social disaster, sometime celebrity preacher and establishment darling, John Donne was incapable of being just one thing. He was a scholar of law, a sea adventurer, a priest, a member of Parliament—and perhaps the greatest love poet in the history of the English language. He converted from Catholicism to Protestantism, was imprisoned for marrying a sixteen-year-old girl without her father’s consent, struggled to feed a family of ten children, and was often ill and in pain. He was a man who suffered from surges of misery, yet expressed in his verse many breathtaking impressions of electric joy and love. In Super-Infinite, Katherine Rundell embarks on a fleet-footed act of evangelism, showing us the many sides of Donne’s 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.

L'explorateur

release date: Mar 09, 2022
L'explorateur
Depuis son siège à bord d'un petit avion, Fred observe la mystérieuse forêt amazonienne s'étendre à perte de vue. Il rêve de devenir un grand explorateur. Quand l'avion percute la cime des arbres, Fred se retrouve seul, au cœur de la jungle immense et sauvage, avec trois autres enfants, Connie, Max et Lila. Quelles sont leurs chances de survie si personne n'est à leur recherche ? Ils ont pourtant le sentiment d'une présence. Quelqu'un était-il là avant eux ?

Mitten im Dschungel

release date: Mar 18, 2021
Mitten im Dschungel
Mitten im Dschungel stürzt die kleine Propellermaschine ab und plötzlich sind Fred, Con, Lila und ihr kleiner Bruder Max auf sich allein gestellt. Wo sollen sie einen Unterschlupf und etwas zu essen finden. Und wie kommen sie aus diesem Urwald überhaupt wieder heraus? Immerhin ist ein Fluss in der Nähe und wilde Früchte, und Fred hat genug Abenteuerbücher gelesen, um ein Floß zu bauen. Aber ob das zum Überleben in der Wildnis reicht?

L'esploratore

release date: Jan 01, 2021

Feo und die Wölfe

release date: Oct 29, 2020
Feo und die Wölfe
Ein waschechter Klassiker von Katherine Rundell! Atmosphärisch dicht geschrieben und spannend bis zur letzten Seite! Feo und ihre Mutter leben in einer kleinen Hütte im Wald. Sie wildern Wölfe aus, die einst als Glücksbringer an die St. Petersburger Oberschicht verkauft wurden, aber jetzt zu groß und wild geworden sind. Eines Tages befiehlt General Rakow ihnen, die Wölfe von nun an zu töten. Doch Feos Mutter weigert sich und wird gefangen genommen. Feo kann in letzter Sekunde entkommen. Zusammen mit drei Wölfen und einer Hand voll Freunde macht sie sich auf den Weg, ihre Mutter zu befreien. Eine warmherzige Geschichte über echte Freundschaft - zu Wölfen und zu Menschen!

The Good Thieves

release date: Aug 25, 2020
The Good Thieves
“A dazzling tale of wild hope, lingering grief, admirable self-sufficiency, and intergenerational adoration.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Vita tests her own limits, and readers will thrill at her cleverness, tenacity, and close escapes.” —Booklist “A satisfying adventure.” —Kirkus Reviews From award-winning author Katherine Rundell comes a fast-paced and utterly thrilling adventure driven by the loyalty and love between a grandfather and his granddaughter. When Vita’s grandfather’s mansion is taken from him by a powerful real estate tycoon, Vita knows it’s up to her to make things right. With the help of a pickpocket and her new circus friends, Vita creates the plan: Break into the mansion. Steal back what’s rightfully her grandfather’s. Expose the real estate tycoon for the crook he truly is. But 1920s Manhattan is ever-changing and full of secrets. It might take more than Vita’s ragtag gang of misfits to outsmart the city that never sleeps. Award-winning author Katherine Rundell has created an utterly gripping tour de-force about loyalty, trust, and the lengths to which we’ll go for the ones we love.

Sophie op de daken

release date: Mar 31, 2020
Sophie op de daken
Katherine Rundell, bekend van Feo en de wolven en De ontdekkingsreiziger, vertelt in Sophie op de daken een meeslepend verhaal over familie en doorzettingsvermogen. Opnieuw een schitterende jeugdroman van een van de belangrijkste Britse kinderboekenauteurs van dit moment. Sophie overleefde als baby een schipbreuk en iedereen denkt dat ze wees is. Maar Sophie herinnert zich nog dat haar moeder om hulp zwaaide toen Sophie in een cellokist in het Kanaal dreef. Volgens haar voogd is het bijna onmogelijk dat haar moeder nog leeft. Maar 'bijna onmogelijk' betekent 'nog mogelijk', vindt Sophie. Met de enige aanwijzing die ze heeft – het adres van de cellomaker – vlucht Sophie naar Parijs. Daar krijgt ze hulp van Matteo en zijn 'daklopers', die in geheime plekken boven de stad wonen. Maar kunnen ze haar moeder vinden voordat Sophie wordt opgepakt door de autoriteiten? Of, nog belangrijker, voordat ze de hoop opgeeft? Katherine Rundells boeken zijn bekroond met grote literaire prijzen, waaronder de Blue Peter Award, Costa Book Award en Waterstones Children's Book Prize.

De ontdekkingsreiziger

release date: May 22, 2019
De ontdekkingsreiziger
Na Feo en de wolven is er nu De ontdekkingsreizger van Katherine Rundell. Over vier kinderen die met een vliegtuig crashen en op een mysterieuze stad in de jungle stuiten. Opnieuw een betoverend avontuur van een veelvoudig bekroonde auteur. Vier kinderen overleven een crash in het Amazonewoud nadat de piloot aan een hartaanval is bezweken. Maar ze zijn ver weg van de bewoonde wereld, en dus van alle hulp. De jungle is een meedogenloze, maar tegelijk ook betoverende plek. Ze eten larven en een tarantula, redden een babyluiaard, klimmen in bomen en bouwen een vlot. Maar hun kans op redding wordt met de dag kleiner. Dan vinden ze een kaart waarop een stad staat aangegeven. Blijkbaar zijn ze niet de eersten op deze plek. Met hernieuwde hoop gaan ze op weg om de verloren stad te vinden... 'Een geweldige leeservaring over een tijdloze ontdekkingsreis die lezers van 8 tot 88 zal bekoren.' Uit het Juryrapport van de Costa Children's Book Award 2017 over De ontdekkingsreiziger 'Elk boek van Katherine Rundell is anders, elk boek is een avontuur. (...) Feo en de wolven is spectaculair!' Beth Johnson, Boekhandel Van Rossum

Coeur de loup

release date: May 15, 2019
Coeur de loup
Féodora a grandi parmi les loups. Ils sont tout pour elle et, bientôt, elle deviendra maître-loup, comme sa mère. Mais ce destin extraordinaire est anéanti quand surgit l’armée du tsar, dévastant tout sur son passage. Alors que sa mère est faite prisonnière, l’intrépide Féo part avec sa meute à travers les forêts enneigées de Sibérie. Bravant l’ennemi, le froid, les tempêtes, elle est prête à tout pour la sauver... Une héroïne fougueuse et à l’âme sauvage. Une envoûtante épopée russe où souffle le vent de la liberté. Par l’auteur du Ciel nous appartient, prix Sorcières.

Feo en de wolven

release date: Oct 23, 2018
Feo en de wolven
Feo en de wolven is het sprookjesachtige verhaal van Katherine Rundell, die veel grote prijzen heeft gewonnen en wordt beschouwd als een van de belangrijkste Britse jeugdboekenauteurs van dit moment. Feo en de wolven is haar eerste boek dat in het Nederlands verschijnt. Feodora woont met haar moeder in de bossen van Rusland, ver weg van de revolutie. Haar moeder leert tamme wolven weer wild te worden, zodat ze kunnen overleven in de wildernis. Feo lijkt een speciale band te hebben met drie van de wolven die altijd in de buurt van hun huis rondzwerven. Dan wordt Feo's moeder gevangengenomen door het leger. Terwijl Feo een barre tocht door het besneeuwde landschap onderneemt om haar moeder te bevrijden, leren de wolven haar hoe ze moet overleven in een gevaarlijke wereld en moet opkomen voor de dingen waar ze van houdt... Rundell, auteur van o.a. The Rooftoppers en The Explorer (verschijnen nog in het Nederlands), kreeg voor haar werk onder andere de Costa Children's Book Award, de Waterstones Children's Book Prize en de Blue Peter Award. 'Elk boek van Katherine Rundell is anders, elk boek is een avontuur. Maar altijd zoeken haar personages hun grenzen op en ontdekken ze hun eigen, innerlijke kracht om in opstand te komen tegen het kwaad. Feo en de wolven is spectaculair!' Beth Johnson, Boekhandel Van Rossum, Amsterdam Een sprookjesachtige en sfeervolle jeugdroman, van een van de belangrijkste Britse jeugdboekenauteurs van dit moment.

Into the Jungle: Stories for Mowgli

release date: Oct 02, 2018
Into the Jungle: Stories for Mowgli
Timed for the release of Warner Bros.’s film Mowgli in October 2018 and Disney''s release of The Jungle Book 2 in 2019, here is a beautifully illustrated companion to Kipling''s classic, by a writer of extraordinary storytelling ability, that explores its timeless themes in a careful update. This wise and witty companion to Rudyard Kipling’s 1894 classic is likewise a series of connected stories about the man-cub Mowgli and his adventures among the animals in the Indian jungle. It includes all the original favorites like Baloo and Bagheera and gives female characters, like Mother Wolf, a more prominent role in Mowgli’s upbringing. The timely theme of the possibility of understanding and empathy across species, cultures, and genders will resonate with contemporary readers.

One Christmas Wish

release date: Sep 18, 2018
One Christmas Wish
From beloved author Katherine Rundell comes a clever, funny, and poignant picture book about a lonely little boy who wishes not to be alone on Christmas. A young boy’s Christmas Eve wish on a shooting star leads to an adventure with an ever-hungry rocking horse, an angel whose wings are molting, a robin who has forgotten how to sing, and a rusting tin drummer boy in Katherine Rundell’s classic Christmas story, with Emily Sutton’s gorgeous paintings.

La ragazza dei lupi

release date: Apr 30, 2018
La ragazza dei lupi
I soffialupi sono quasi impossibili da scoprire. Visti da fuori sembrano più o meno persone normali. Certo, ci sono degli indizi: è assai facile che manchi loro un pezzo di dito, il lobo di un orecchio, una o due dita dei piedi. Perché un soffialupi è il contrario di un domatore: accoglie un lupo cresciuto in cattività e gli insegna a vivere di nuovo tra i boschi, a ululare, ad ascoltare il Richiamo della foresta. Feo è una di loro, proprio come la sua mamma, e da sempre vive tra boschi perennemente bianchi di neve, avvolta nel profumo di legna e di pelliccia. Non tutti però amano i lupi, e ancor meno chi li aiuta a tornare selvaggi. E così, quando la mamma viene incarcerata ingiustamente, Feo non ci sta, e corre a salvarla.

The Explorer

release date: Sep 12, 2017
The Explorer
From the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award-winning author of Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms comes an exciting new novel about a group of kids who must survive in the Amazon after their plane crashes. 5 1/2 x 8 5/16.

Střechy Paříže

release date: Jan 01, 2017

The Wolf Wilder

release date: Sep 06, 2016
The Wolf Wilder
“Fairy tale and history merge seamlessly” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) in this enchanting and lyrical novel about love and resilience from the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award winner, Katherine Rundell. Feo’s life is extraordinary. Her mother trains domesticated wolves to be able to fend for themselves in the snowy wilderness of Russia, and Feo is following in her footsteps to become a wolf wilder. She loves taking care of the wolves, especially the three who stay at the house because they refuse to leave Feo, even though they’ve already been wilded. But not everyone is enamored with the wolves, or with the fact that Feo and her mother are turning them wild. And when her mother is taken captive, Feo must travel through the cold, harsh woods to save her—and learn from her wolves how to survive.

Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms

release date: Mar 01, 2016
Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms
Will must find her way after she''s plucked out of a wonderful life in Zimbabwe and forced to go to boarding school in England.

Sophie auf den Dächern

release date: Oct 30, 2015
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