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Author Gabrielle Wang talks about her journey as a writer, before and since the publication of her acclaimed first novel, The Garden of Empress Cassia...

Picture book creator extraordinaire, Demi takes us on an in-depth tour of her work and discusses how Buddhism influences everything she does...

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Lynne Barasch
Guo Yue and Clare Farrow
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Jimmy Liao shares some moments from his vibrant "journeys of the Imagination"...

Nilesh Mistry takes us on a journey through his work that encompasses book illustration, design, and painting elephants...

Lak-Khee Tay-Audouard talks about her pain-staking art and some of the more unusual media she brings into her work...

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Demi
James Rumford
Wen Hsu
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The Journey of Translation: Walking with Jimmy Liao
by Sarah L. Thomson

It's Not the Destination. It's the Journey
by James Rumford

Escaping Conflict, Seeking Peace: Picture books that relate refugee stories
by Marjorie Coughlan

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by Debjani Chatterjee

Children's Books in Translation by Gillian Lathey
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PaperTigers Book of the Month - Azzi In Between

Sarah Garland,
Azzi In Between
Frances Lincoln, 2012.

The cover image of a little girl clutching her teddy bear as she looks warily behind her while walking through a war-torn landscape sets the scene for what is to come, as Azzi and her family flee their unspecified Middle Eastern country and arrive as refugees in the Western city that will gradually become their home...the graphic format and the depth of this story aimed at young readers is also a quality read for older children through to adults...
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