{"id":601861,"date":"2026-08-31T19:30:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T19:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/601861\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T19:30:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T19:30:14","slug":"katherine-rundell-releases-novel-the-neverfear-alongside-book-defending-childrens-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/601861\/","title":{"rendered":"Katherine Rundell releases novel &#8216;The Neverfear&#8217; alongside book defending children&#8217;s literature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Oxford University professor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/authors\/268831\/katherine-rundell\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Katherine Rundell<\/a> became the first children&#8217;s author since J.K. Rowling to simultaneously reach number one on the U.K. and U.S. sales charts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Her newest book, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Neverfear-Impossible-Creatures-Katherine-Rundell\/dp\/0593809947\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Neverfear<\/a>,&#8221; comes out Sept. 1, after Rundell secured a seven-figure deal with Disney to adapt the &#8220;Impossible Creatures&#8221; series its part of to film.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Rundell&#8217;s book-length essay, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/821392\/why-you-should-read-childrens-books-even-though-you-are-so-old-and-wise-by-katherine-rundell\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Why You Should Read Children&#8217;s Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise<\/a>&#8221; also comes out with a new edition Sept. 1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Host Indira Lakshmanan discusses both books with Rundell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">This segment aired on August 31, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oxford University professor Katherine Rundell became the first children&#8217;s author since J.K. Rowling to simultaneously reach number one&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":601862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[146,85,46],"class_list":["post-601861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}