Go on an adventure with Katherine Rundell ...

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Winner of the Children’s Book Prize

Winner of the Costa Children’s Book Award 2017

Winner of the London Book Fair Children’s Travel Book of the Year

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’I loved The Explorer’ - Jacqueline Wilson

’Rundell is now unarguably in the FIRST RANK’ - Philip Pullman

’Read everything she writes’ - Daily Mail

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From his seat in the tiny aeroplane, Fred watches as the mysteries of the Amazon jungle pass by below him. He has always dreamed of becoming an explorer, of making history and of reading his name amongst the lists of great discoveries. If only he could land and look about him.

As the plane crashes into the canopy, Fred is suddenly left without a choice. He and the three other children may be alive, but the jungle is a vast, untamed place. With no hope of rescue, the chance of getting home feels impossibly small.

Except, it seems, someone has been there before them …

KATHERINE RUNDELL

Creció en Londres, Zimbabwe y Bélgica. Estudió Literatura Inglesa en la Universidad de Oxford y en 2008 se convirtió en miembro del All Souls College, donde trabaja como investigadora en literatura renacentista. Entre sus libros para niños se encuentran Rooftoppers (2013), The Wolf Wilder (2015) y The Explorer (2017), ganador del premio Costa. También ha publicado libros de no ficción: The Golden Mole, un catálogo de extraordinarios animales en peligro de extinción, y Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne, que ganó el premio Baillie Gifford de no ficción.