An interactive storytelling from Dean Atta, all about finding joy and celebration in life. Featuring fun, music and lots of confetti.
Join award-winning author and poet Dean Atta for an uplifting, interactive storytelling session celebrating his colourful picture books Confetti and Auntie’s Bangles.
Beginning with a reading of Auntie’s Bangles and ending with a joyful parade from Confetti, this event will feature music, dancing, jingling bangles and of course, plenty of confetti.
Confetti
Celebrate love and life through the seasons in the debut picture book from acclaimed poet Dean Atta and illustrated by award-winning Alea Marley.
One day, Ari discovers a piece of pink confetti under the sofa. She throws is up into the air and watches it helicopter down: a small, bright moment of celebration. … She finds that when you look around, life is full of celebrations, each moment bursting with colour and joy – just like a handful of confetti.
Auntie’s Bangles
A heartfelt story about love, loss and the joy a person leaves behind, written by multi-prize winning poet Dean Atta and illustrated by the award-winning Alea Marley.
About the author
Dean Atta is a BAFTA award-winning screenwriter, author and spoken word poet. He is the author of YA novels-in-verse The Black Flamingo and Only on the Weekends and was named as ‘one of poetry’s greatest modern voices’ (Gay Times). The Black Flamingo was a top-selling debut of 2020 and was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, CILIP Carnegie Medal, The Jhalak Prize and The YA Book Prize. The Black Flamingo was also awarded the prestigious Stonewall Book Award and the Carnegie Shadowers‘ Choice Award 2020, and sold to the US in a five-way publisher auction. He has two picture books with illustrator Alea Marley, Confetti and Auntie’s Bangles, both celebrating and acknowledging those big moments in everyday life.