Empathy Day 2022 with A.M.Dassu

In this episode, the second celebrating Empathy Day 2022, Toria
talks to award winning author A.M.Dassu (Az) about why empathy is
so important to her and her writing. She is an advocate for
Empathy Day and how this event enables our young people to
develop this important skill. In 2021, Az went on an Empathy Walk
and this year she is striking up a power pose! Find out more here
- https://www.empathylab.uk/

Az is a multi award-winning writer of both non-fiction and
fiction including the internationally acclaimed novel Boy,
Everywhere, one of The Guardian’s, Bookriot’s, Kirkus’s,
American Library Association’s Booklist’s, CLPE’s and
BookTrust’s Best Children’s Book of the Year. It has coveted
starred reviews from Kirkus, Booklist and Publisher’s
Weekly and is also an American Library Association’s
Notable Book. Boy, Everywhere also featured as one of The
Guardian’s Children’s Best New Novels on publication in October
2020, is on Amnesty’s Books That Inspire Activism list and
has been listed for 25 awards including the Waterstones
Children’s Book Prize and Carnegie Medal, and
is the 2021 winner of The Little Rebels Award for Radical
Fiction. 'Boy Everywhere' a moving story of survival
which looks at the refugee crisis in a very different way. This
book was part of Empathy Labs 2021 Read for Empathy secondary
collection.

You can find her on Twitter @a_reflective or Instagram @a.m.dassu


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