EAN: 9781529118681

JUST SAYIN - MALORIE BLACKMAN KARTONIERT (TB)

The long-awaited autobiography of one of the world's greatest children's writers  and an
empowering and inspiring account of a life in books.Malorie Blackman OBE is one of Britain's
best loved and most widely-read writers. For over thirty years  her books have helped to shape
British culture  and inspired generations of younger readers and writers. The Noughts and
Crosses series  started in 2000  sparked a new and necessary conversation about race and
identity in the UK  and are already undisputed classics of twenty-first-century children's
literature.She is also a writer whose own life has been shaped by books  from her childhood in
south London  the daughter of parents who moved to Britain from Barbados as part of the
Windrush Generation  and who experienced a childhood that was both wonderful and marred by the
everyday racism and bigotry of the era. She was told she could not apply to study her first
love  literature  at university  in spite of her academic potential  but found a way to books
and to a life in writing against a number of obstacles.This book is an account of that journey
from a childhood surrounded by words  to the 83 rejection letters she received in response to
sending out her first project  to the children's laureateship. It explores the books who have
made her who she is  and the background to some the most beloved and powerful children's
stories of today. It is an illuminating  inspiring and empowering account of the power of words
to change lives  and the extraordinary life story of one of the world's greatest writers.

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