Lindy’s Magpie Reads | Friday Reads October 6: CWY in Sri Lanka; Young People’s Literature; memoirs in audio & comics etc @lindysmagpiereads | Uploaded October 2023 | Updated October 2024, 6 hours ago.
00:00 Intro

01:07 Canada World Youth 1977/78 Sri Lanka exchange

06:32 Wab Kinew: Canada’s first Anishnaabe premier is also an author
Go Show the World: A Celebration of Indigenous Heroes by Wab Kinew and Joe Morse
The Reason You Walk by Wab Kinew
Walking in Two Worlds (Floraverse #1) by Wab Kinew
The Everlasting Road (Floraverse #2)by Wab Kinew

08:58 🇬🇧🎧 Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women’s Words by Jenni Nuttall; audiobook read by Beth Hicks; published by Books on Tape

11:00 🇺🇸🎧 The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight by Andrew Leland; audiobook read by the author; published by Books on Tape

16:20 🇺🇸 A First Time for Everything by Dan Santat; published by First Second

18:59 🇺🇸 Huda F Are You? by Huda Fahmy; published by Dial Books

20:48 🇬🇧 Western Lane by Chetna Maroo; published by Alfred Knopf

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Other Mentions:

Shawn @shawnbreathesbooks

Nyambura @100onBooks

Parachute Kids by Betty C Tang

Huda F Cares? by Huda Fahmy

Big by Vashti Harrison

National Book Award for Young People’s Literature:
nationalbook.org/2023-national-book-awards-longlist-for-young-peoples-literature