Wed, 31 Jan
|Virtual Event
AM Dassu - Kicked Out for Year 6 & Secondary Schools
In this workshop students will join A. M. Dassu to learn why she wrote Boy, Everywhere, Boot It and Kicked Out. Look at stereotypes and the role the media plays in them. Hear a reading from Kicked Out and then look at how to be an ally and support displaced people.
Time & Location
31 Jan 2024, 14:00 – 14:45
Virtual Event
About the Artists & Speakers
A.M. Dassu is the internationally acclaimed author of Boy, Everywhere and Fight Back, which have collectively been listed for 48 awards, including the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, the Week Junior Book Award, the Carnegie Medal, The Little Rebels Award for Radical Fiction, the American Library Association Notable Book List and Jane Addams Peace Book Award.
She is a director at Inclusive Minds, which is an organisation for people who are passionate about inclusion, diversity, equality and accessibility in children’s literature; a patron of The Other Side of Hope, a literary magazine edited by immigrants and refugees, which celebrates the refugee and immigrant communities worldwide, an ambassador for new charity Inclusive Books for Children, which reviews hundreds of high-quality inclusive children’s books, and one of The National Literacy Trust’s Connecting Stories campaign authors, aiming to help inspire a love of reading and writing in children and young people.
A.M. Dassu grew up in the Midlands dreaming of becoming a writer but studied economics instead and worked in marketing and project management before realising her dream. She writes books that challenge stereotypes, humanise the “other” and are full of empathy, hope and heart. Her most recent book, Boot It! was a bestselling World Book Day novella, published in March 2023. Her latest novel, Kicked Out was published in October 2023. You can also find her on Twitter/X @a_reflective or Instagram @a.m.dassu.