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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, plus Judith Kerr's centenary with Nicolette Jones and Oliver Jeffers

Johny Pitts talks to the author behind Half of a Yellow Sun, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, about her new book for children. Plus Nicolette Jones and Oliver Jeffers discuss Judith Kerr.

Johny Pitts talks to the author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie about her new book for children. The globally famous author behind Half of a Yellow Sun, Purple Hibiscus and Americanah explains how she was inspired to write something for a young generation by both her daughter and her late parents, whom she honours with the pseudonym Nwa Grace-James.

The illustrator and writer Judith Kerr would have been 100 this year. To mark her centenary, Oliver Jeffers and Nicolette Jones discuss her indisputable contribution to the world of children's books, her subtle ability to weave the playful with the profound, and legacy amongst writers today exploring issues such as displacement and living as a refugee.

Plus Molly Crawford of Simon & Schuster chose a poetic and powerful new novel from Jesmyn Ward as her Editor's Pick.

Producer: Ciaran Bermingham

Book list
Mama’s Sleeping Scarf by Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie (as Nwa Grace-James)
We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie
Dear Ijeawele by Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit, Bombs on Aunt Dainty and A Small Person Far Away (Out of the Hitler Time trilogy) by Judith Kerr
The Tiger Who Came to Tea by Judith Kerr
Mog the Forgetful Cat by Judith Kerr
My Henry by Judith Kerr
You Don’t Know What War Is by Yeva Skalietska
In The Sea There Are Crocodiles by Fabio Geda
Here We Are by Oliver Jeffers
Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell
The Swallow’s Flight, part 2 of the Skylark’s War Series by Hilary McKay
Boy, Everywhere by AM Dassu
The Boy at the Back of the Class by Onjali Q. Rauf
Hidden by Miriam Halahmy
Welcome to Nowhere by Elizabeth Laird
The Crossing by Manjeet Mann
Illegal by Eoin Colfer and Andrew Donkin
Begin Again by Oliver Jeffers
Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward

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28 minutes

Last on

Thu 28 Sep 2023 15:30

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Photographer Manny Jefferson

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  • Thu 28 Sep 2023 15:30

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