‘Adults are taught not to believe anything unless it is boring or ugly.’
Rundell makes a fantastic case to read children’s books as an adult with Rooftoppers. Undoubtedly drawing on her own experience climbing across rooftops to answer mischievous questions like ‘where do the rooftep-dwellers go to the toilet? Drainpipes.’, Rundell opens up the world above your head to the imagination. It’s a fierce, fantastic world full of beautiful language ‘Think of night-time with a speaking voice.’, wry jokes, and a distrust for Belgians.
Rooftoppers is the kind of book that inspires night-time dreams that you want to hang around and stick with you into day-time dreams. It’s empowering and self-assuredly unconventional.