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Portia Dery
4 quotes
“My love for reading and awe for books. They inspired me to imagine a world on my own terms as early as age eight. This soon transcended beyond just writing for myself into telling African stories that children everywhere could find themselves in and use to fly away into their own world. I am very grateful to be able to help increase the diversity of African children’s literature a book at a time.”
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“Write about what you would have loved to read as a child. While some find it the hardest, writing for children can be a wonderful opportunity to go back to your childhood memories. I find this very therapeutic - a free ticket to escape from the adult world for a moment. The writing process for Gogo’s List was such a pleasure because I shared it with some children in my literacy clinic. I would read a chapter and ask what they thought. Sometimes I would just observe the body language. This greatly helped me to see the world of Fatima through their eyes.”
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“Storytelling is food for the soul. Gone are the days when children will sit by the fireside to hear lovely stories, retold with such passion, vigour, and hope by people who themselves sat by the fireside. But even with our busy lives, we still can make time to tell our stories, especially to children, and encourage children to write their reflections on these stories. Whatever family unit you have, you could create 30 minutes of 'family-time' – perhaps weekly or even monthly – to share old stories and hear new, modern stories. Oral storytelling is powerful too.”
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“If you walk in the measurable, you miss out on the imaginable”
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