Katherine Rundell Archives » Bookology Magazine https://www.bookologymagazine.com/tag/katherine-rundell Children's Literature Thu, 08 Apr 2021 13:33:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 69996714 Finding Wonder https://www.bookologymagazine.com/big-green-pocketbook/finding_wonder https://www.bookologymagazine.com/big-green-pocketbook/finding_wonder#respond Thu, 04 Mar 2021 13:00:22 +0000 https://www.bookologymagazine.com/?post_type=article&p=24972 When fairy tale characters step into the woods, they are beset by tests, yet are stronger by the time they find their way out. At the beginning of 2021, I wandered in a deep, dark woods because, as Bruno Bettelheim warns in The Uses of Enchantment, it’s where you go after losing the framework which gives structure to your life.

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]]> https://www.bookologymagazine.com/big-green-pocketbook/finding_wonder/feed 0 24972 Losing Wonder https://www.bookologymagazine.com/big-green-pocketbook/losing_wonder https://www.bookologymagazine.com/big-green-pocketbook/losing_wonder#comments Thu, 04 Feb 2021 13:42:33 +0000 https://www.bookologymagazine.com/?post_type=article&p=24526 I hadn’t written in months. Yet each morning, during that misty period between sleep and wakefulness, ideas popped into my mind. In the cold winter light, though, those ideas were revealed as withered and drab. Covid stole more than concentration and motivation. It robbed me of wonder.

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