Join us at Morocco Bound Bookshop (Wandsworth Town) for 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.

Aimed at ages 3-8. Each ticket includes a hot drink on arrival!

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.

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