Katherine Rundell Books in Order

After growing up freely on an African farm, Wilhelmina is sent to boarding school in England when her home is sold. Facing bullying and unfamiliar restrictions, she searches for a way to survive London without losing the spirit that made her feel at home.

Found as a baby after a shipwreck, Sophie refuses to believe her mother died. When authorities threaten to remove her from her guardian, they flee to Paris, where children living on rooftops help her follow the fragile clues to her mother's fate.

Feo and her mother help domesticated wolves learn to survive in the Russian wilderness. When soldiers take her mother captive, Feo sets out through the snow with her wolves, drawing on their lessons to attempt a dangerous rescue.

Left with a babysitter on Christmas Eve, lonely Theo wishes for friends to keep him company. When decorations climb down from the tree, their unexpected arrival brings magical disorder and a new understanding of what companionship can mean.

Four children survive a plane crash in the Amazon and must cooperate to find food, shelter, and a route home. An old map gives them a destination, but following the river toward it reveals more than they expected.

As Mowgli travels through the jungle, stories reveal the earlier lives of familiar animals including Baloo, Bagheera, and Shere Khan. These interconnected adventures explore friendship, loyalty, and the laws that shape their shared forest home.

When a wealthy developer cheats her grandfather out of his New York mansion, Vita recruits a pickpocket and circus performers to help recover it. Their daring plan must expose the fraud while overcoming the hidden dangers of 1920s Manhattan.

Rundell argues that children's literature offers adult readers more than nostalgia. Exploring its imagination, emotional openness, and playfulness, she considers how returning to these books can renew curiosity and reveal perspectives that ordinary adult reading may overlook.

Matteo and Mercedes live among the children who make their homes above the streets of Paris. A hunt for hidden treasure sends them racing across rooftops while an enemy threatens the world and companions they most want to protect.

Rundell follows John Donne through his transformations as adventurer, lawyer, lover, religious outsider, and celebrated preacher. His poetry and turbulent personal history illuminate a life shaped by ambition, faith, illness, and an unusually intense engagement with love and death.

When a young zebra appears and reveals that his parents have been captured, Mink resolves to help. Their adventure becomes a rescue mission for many imprisoned animals, testing her courage and refusal to accept the cruel collector's rules.

Christopher discovers an archipelago where creatures of myth still live and meets Mal, a girl fleeing danger. Together they cross its extraordinary islands to discover why the magic is fading and its remarkable animals are dying.

Rundell explores the remarkable lives of animals facing extinction, combining natural history with essays about wonder and loss. Their unusual abilities and fragile futures become a call to notice, value, and protect the creatures sharing our world.

A miniature dragon brings Christopher back to the Archipelago and into an unexpected rescue mission. His return draws him toward a dragon’s lair and a determined girl whose search for justice will shape their dangerous journey.

Rundell explores the unusual lives and abilities of twelve threatened animals, from an orangutan kept by Napoleon to pigs and owls. These illustrated essays combine surprising natural history with an argument for valuing and protecting other species.

A midsummer celebration turns into a rescue mission when bandits kidnap someone close to Christopher and Anya. Their effort to raise a ransom takes them across the magical Archipelago, where pirates, giants, and dangerous creatures stand between them and their friend.

Katherine Rundell presents an illustrated collection of essays about remarkable animals and the threats they face. Their behaviors, histories, and unexpected qualities become a celebration of wildlife and a call to value the creatures at risk of disappearing.