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You’re invited to Alem’s birthday party! But where will he be celebrating? Maybe bear, fox, treefrog or bulldog know? But don’t ask the dragon… or he just might eat you! Join Lemn Sissay for a fun, interactive reading and colouring activities from his picture book, Don’t Ask The Dragon, illustrated by Greg Stobbs: a heart-warming story about finding joy and home wherever you are. Chaired by author Joely Badger.
One of Britain's best loved poets, Lemn Sissay is a performer of rare passion. But growing up with foster families and in care homes, Sissay struggled with his identity. The discovery of his birth name and Ethiopian background is the catalyst for ref…
“Family is a set of disputed memories between one group of people over a lifetime. I sort of realised that at eighteen I had nobody to dispute the memory of me", the poet said at the Book Festival on Saturday night…