Audio & Video
The World of the Crossing
Manjeet explains the origins of her novel in verse, The Crossing.
- The World of the Crossing
- Introduction
- Genre
- The World
- Drawing out the secret character
- Character and story
- Stuff
- Obstacles
- Choices
- Summary
- Being Children’s Laureate
- Konnie Reads From Cookie and the Most Annoying Boy in the World
- Sputnik
- Re-imagining Scottish folklore
- The importance of libraries
- The real world and the fictional world
- Wordplay
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- Reading from 'The Places I've Cried in Public'
- Flirting and locker room talk