Unbroken Festival
T01165576638
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Mental Health in Children's Literature
After last year's success, Unbroken Festival returns to Theatre503. Featuring new writing, live music, visual art, workshops, a short film screening and various panel discussions Unbroken presents a series of artistic responses to World Mental Health Day. In this session, Charlie Sheppard, Publishing Director at acclaimed children's publisher Andersen Press, will give us a general overview of the issue of mental health in today's children's books, looking at how often the subject is dealt with, what approaches authors tend to take and whether or not the way in which it is spoken about or dealt with has changed over recent years. She will then share with us some examples from Andersen's own output ? from beautiful picture books to teen and YA volumes that might just make you laugh and cry within the same chapter. Bookworms of all ages are guaranteed to enjoy this session and we hope to see children, teenagers, parents, guardians, teachers, librarians and writers in the audience together, along with any other interested parties!
