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AM Dassu - Kicked Out for Year 6 & Secondary Schools
Wed 31 Jan
|Virtual Event
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…