A tale of wild hope and thrilling adventure on the rooftops of Paris, Rooftoppers is a multi-award-winning modern classic from internationally bestselling author Katherine Rundell
Katherine Rundell is a bestselling author whose novels
for children include Rooftoppers, The Wolf Wilder, The Explorer and
The Good Thieves. She has won the Costa Children’s Book Award, the
Blue Peter Book Award and the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize,
amongst many others. She was a 2021 World Book Day author and has
also published two picture books for children and three non-fiction
books for adults, including Super-Infinite: The Transformations of
John Donne, winner of the 2022 Baillie Gifford Prize, and The
Golden Mole and Other Living Treasure, shortlisted for the 2022
Waterstones Book of the Year. Her books have sold millions of
copies worldwide.
Katherine spent her childhood in Africa and Europe before taking
her degree at the University of Oxford and becoming a Fellow of All
Souls College. As well as writing, she studies Renaissance
literature and occasionally goes climbing on the rooftops late at
night.
Marie-Alice Harel is a French illustrator based in
Edinburgh, Scotland. She teaches illustration at the Edinburgh
Drawing School and was the winner of the 2019 Book Illustration
Competition.
I enjoyed it tremendously … An ultra stylish writer with a true
gift for imaginative storytelling. The next time I go to Paris I
will be looking up at the rooftops
*Jacqueline Wilson*
A rare and remarkable treat, witty and full of original thoughts …
This quirky book advocates curiosity, thoughtfulness, freedom and
courage
*Sunday Times*
A writer with an utterly distinctive voice and a wild
imagination
*Philip Pullman*
Whimsical, beautifully written and as carefully balanced as the
tightrope Sophie learns to walk, Rooftoppers is a sensitive and
emotionally resonant novel with an uplifting message about the
power of hope
*BookTrust*
Rundell is an astonishing young talent and her books combine
old-fashioned, edge-of-your-seat adventure with richly imagined
characters … Read everything she writes
*Daily Mail*
Katherine Rundell might be the cleverest children’s writer working
today ... [Rooftoppers] draws on Rundell’s own experiences of
scaling the dreaming spires of Oxford, and does so with
whimsicality, wit and a thrilling sense of adventure
*Ten classic children’s books to buy for Christmas, Spectator*
[a] children’s book that wipes the floor with most adult novels
*This week in audio, Guardian*
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