Mostly Book Talk
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Mostly Book Talk
Episode 38 - Wild Journey: an interview with AM Dassu about her latest book
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In in this episode we talk to AM Dassu about her latest book, Wild Journey. This is a collection of five interlinked stories about children around the world all connected by the sight of a murmuration of starlings. Fully illustrated by Joe Lillington.
AM Dassu's website can be found here and links to the books we discussed are below:
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