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  • Bibliography:
    11 Books
  • First Book:
    January 2011
  • Latest Book:
    September 2023
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Book List in Order: 11 titles





  • Embrace possibility in this luminous novel about a girl in search of her past who discovers a secret rooftop world in Paris. Everyone thinks that Sophie is an orphan. True, there were no other recorded female survivors from the shipwreck that left...



  • Even a life on the untamed plains of Africa can’t prepare Wilhelmina for the wilds of an English boarding school in this lovely and lyrical novel from the author of Rooftoppers, which Booklist called “a glorious adventure.” Wilhelmina Silver...



  • A girl and the wolves who love her embark on a rescue mission through Russian wilderness in this lyrical tale from the author of the acclaimed Rooftoppers and Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms. Feo’s life is extraordinary. Her mother trains domestic...



  • From Boston Globe-Horn Book Award winner Katherine Rundell comes an exciting new novel about a group of kids who must survive in the Amazon after their plane crashes. Fred, Con, Lila, and Max are on their way back to England from Manaus when the p...



  • 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-hung...



  • Costa Children’s Book Award-winning author Katherine Rundell pens Kipling estate-approved Jungle Book origin stories This wise and witty companion to Rudyard Kipling’s 1894 classic is likewise a series of connected stories about the man-cub Mo...



  • “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 esca...



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    Shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year
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    In difficult times, what children really need is hope. And in that spirit, bestselling author Katherine Rundell emailed some of the children's...






  • 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 lett...



  • Two kids race to save the world’s last magical place in the first book of a landmark new fantasy series, from “a writer with an utterly distinctive voice and a wild imagination.” (Philip Pullman, author of The Golden Compass)   “Katherin...


Award-Winning Books by Katherine Rundell

Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms
2015 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award -- Fiction & Poetry
The Good Thieves
2019 Foyles Book of the Year -- Children's
Impossible Creatures
2023 Foyles Book of the Year -- Children's


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Katherine Rundell has published 11 books.

Katherine Rundell does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Impossible Creatures, was published in September 2023.

The first book by Katherine Rundell, The Girl Savage, was published in January 2011.

No. Katherine Rundell does not write books in series.