Juno Dawson and Dean Atta: Taking pride in storytelling
Juno Dawson and Dean Atta on writing celebratory stories for LGBTQ+ teenagers
This week, we go inside the world of childrenβs books and teen fiction.
What were your favourite books growing up? What stories were you drawn to? We hear from the prize-winning authors Juno Dawson and Dean Atta about creating celebratory stories for LGBTQ+ teenagers of coming of age and coming out.
In Japan, thereβs one tradition that can take a story from the pages of a book and bring it out on to a street corner for crowds of children to enjoy. Itβs called Kamishibai which means βpaper play.β The picture book author and illustrator Satoshi Kitamura tells the story of this unique performance art.
We meet the author and activist taking on US immigration policy through the power of a childrenβs story. The Mexican-American writer Aida Salazar talks to the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔβs Mugabi Turya about how the recent detention of child migrants and her personal memories living as an undocumented migrant led her to write her new book, The Land of the Cranes.
Has a film, a song or a book ever changed the way you see the world? We hear from the illustrator of The Gruffalo, Axel Scheffler, on how his love for the work of French-German artist Tomi Ungerer set him on a path of artistic expression.
Presented by Tina Daheley
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- Sat 23 May 2020 01:32GMTΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ World Service except Online, Americas and the Caribbean, Australasia & UK DAB/Freeview
- Sun 24 May 2020 04:32GMTΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ World Service except Americas and the Caribbean, East Asia & South Asia
- Sun 24 May 2020 08:32GMTΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ World Service except East and Southern Africa & West and Central Africa
- Sun 24 May 2020 10:32GMTΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ World Service East and Southern Africa & West and Central Africa only
- Sun 24 May 2020 21:06GMTΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ World Service
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