Katherine Rundell’s
Impossible Creatures series follows two kid heroes on their journey to save a group of islands filled with magical beasts. She’s the first children's author since J.K. Rowling to simultaneously top the U.K. and U.S. sales charts. Now, Rundell is out with
The Neverfear, the third installment in the series. She’s also authored a book-length essay called
Why You Should Read Children's Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise. In today’s episode, she talks with
Here & Now’s Indira Lakshmanan about how children’s literature gets to “the meat of the human heart.”
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