Sally Gardner is a multi-award-winning novelist whose work has been translated into more than 22 languages.
As a child, she was classified as ‘unteachable’ before anyone mentioned the word ‘dyslexia’. She learned to read at 14 and hasn’t looked back since. Her novel Maggot Moon - featuring dyslexic hero Standish Treadwell - won both the Costa Children's Book Prize and the Carnegie Medal 2013, and she won the 2005 Nestle Children's Book Prize for her debut novel I, Coriander.
Sally will talk at the Henry Bloom Noble Library about her writing and dyslexia and its impact on children's learning. As she says: ‘We accept a diversity in sexuality and yet we refuse the accept diversity in the way children learn. Hasn't the time come for us to start celebrating the differences in ways in which we learn and look at the world?’
This is a free event - but space is limited in the library, so please reserve a place by emailing the library or calling 696461.
