Katherine Rundell

Katherine Rundell

KATHERINE RUNDELL is the internationally bestselling author of Impossible Creatures. Her other books for children include Rooftoppers, Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms, The Wolf Wilder, The Explorer, and The Good Thieves. She grew up in Zimbabwe, Brussels, and London, and is currently a Fellow of St. Catherine’s College, Oxford. For adult readers, Rundell has written Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures and Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne, which won the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. She was the recipient of the British Book Award for Book of the Year and Author of the Year.

Nonfiction

March 28 2025

Touch Grass

If you spend any time on your phone, chances are you know what it means when someone tells you to “touch grass”: put down the phone, step away from the screens, and go outside to experience real life. And with a barrage of seemingly urgent breaking news and infinite feeds to scroll through, many are