Good morning everyone today I’m doing a spotlight feature in this beautiful book that I’ve bought my nephew for his Christmas present.
When I say this books beautiful, it’s absolutely stunning! My picture honestly doesn’t do it justice. It has a gold cover with sparkling gold bits on it and gold sprayed edges too. There are some wonderful illustrations inside too which help break up the text which I would have loved as a kid. I’m very hopeful that my nephew will like it and that I’ll be aunty of the year!
Book Synopsis:
** SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES AND FOYLES BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDS **
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 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.
About The Author:
One of the most inventive and original authors of children’s fiction writing today, Katherine Rundell’s writing career was spearheaded by Waterstones who awarded her The Waterstones Children’s Book Prize in 2014 for her novel Rooftoppers.
Born in Kent, Rundell grew up in Zimbabwe and her experiences of her life there and of leaving to move to Brussels when she was 14 were a strong influence on her first novel, The Girl Savage, written when she was just 21.
A fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, Rundell wrote Rooftoppers – a novel influenced by her own hobby of clambering on Oxford’s college roofs – whilst studying for her masters. She followed this with The Wolf Wilder, The Explorer, which won the Costa Book Award, One Christmas Wish, The Good Thieves and Into the Jungle, a sequel to Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book.
In addition to her stellar writing for children, Rundell has also penned two highly acclaimed non-fiction books for adults; The Golden Mole, which was shortlisted for the Waterstones Book of the Year 2022, and Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne, which scooped the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2022.
What books are you planning to buy as gifts this Christmas?
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It’s a fascinating book and as you such, so beautiful.
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