Rashmi Sirdeshpande | 'Factual books have such an important place'

"In a world where fake news can travel scarily fast, factual books have such an important place.” Rashmi Sirdeshpande’s second children’s non-fiction book How to Change the World, illustrated by Annabel Tempest, will be published by Puffin in January. Speaking over the phone from her Buckinghamshire home, she is keen to smash the stereotype that non-fiction is just a tool to get children into reading before they move on to “proper” books. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-27 14:20:32 UTC ]

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‘Times change’: what authors think about rewriting older books

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Publishers are cynically using ‘sensitivity readers’ to protect their bottom lines | Zoe Dubno

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Boris Johnson recites Oompa-Loompas song in defence of Roald Dahl’s books

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