Diversity in Children's Literature 3: Alex Wheatle and AM Dassu

Five Leaves Bookshop

Alex Wheatle and AM Dassu read from and talk about their books, looking at issues of diversity and inclusivity in middle grade/YA fiction.

Alex Wheatle spent most of his childhood in the notorious Shirley Oaks children’s home near Croydon, spending many lonely hours reading comics. His first novel, Brixton Rock, was published to critical acclaim by BlackAmber Books in 1999, and his novel Crongton Knights won the Guardian children&#x27;s fiction award and the Renaissance Quiz Writers&#x27; Choice Award. The Humiliations of Welton Blake is a laugh-out-loud tale of the disasters that happen to Welton when he asks the best-looking girl in the school out, and she says yes... but then his phone breaks and everything goes wrong.A. M. Dassu writes fiction and non-fiction. She is the Deputy Editor of SCBWI-BI&#x27;s Words &amp; Pictures magazine and a Director of Inclusive Minds, a unique organisation for people who are passionate about inclusion, diversity, equality and accessibility in children&#x27;s literature. Her widely-acclaimed novel Boy, Everywhere is one of the Guardian’s, Bookriot’s, BookTrust’s and CLPE’s Best Children’s Book of 2020, it features on Amnesty’s ‘Books That Inspire Activism’ list, and was given a Kirkus Star. A. M. Dassu has used her publishing deal advances for Boy, Everywhere to assist Syrian refugees in her city and set up a grant to support an unpublished refugee/recently immigrated writer.Alex Wheatle and A. M. Dassu join Deirdre O&#x27;Byrne to read from and talk about their books and the issues they address, and about cultural diversity in children&#x27;s books in general.This event will have BSL interpretation provided. NB due to the way Zoom is implemented on the iPad, BSL interpretation is not available during screensharing. If this is a problem for you, please use another device to attend the event.With Lottery funding from Arts Council England

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