Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, plus Judith Kerr's centenary with Nicolette Jones and Oliver Jeffers

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Johny Pitts talks to the author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie about her new book for children. The globally famous author behind Half of a Yellow Sun, Purple Hibiscus and Americanah explains how she was inspired to write something for a young generation by both her daughter and her late parents, whom she honours with the pseudonym Nwa Grace-James. The illustrator and writer Judith Kerr would have been 100 this year. To mark her centenary, Oliver Jeffers and Nicolette Jones discuss her indisputable contribution to the world of children's books, her subtle ability to weave the playful with the profound, and legacy amongst writers today exploring issues such as displacement and living as a refugee. Plus Molly Crawford of Simon & Schuster chose a poetic and powerful new novel from Jesmyn Ward as her Editor's Pick. Producer: Ciaran Bermingham Book list Mama’s Sleeping Scarf by Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie (as Nwa Grace-James) We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie Dear Ijeawele by Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit, Bombs on Aunt Dainty and A Small Person Far Away (Out of the Hitler Time trilogy) by Judith Kerr The Tiger Who Came to Tea by Judith Kerr Mog the Forgetful Cat by Judith Kerr My Henry by Judith Kerr You Don’t Know What War Is by Yeva Skalietska In The Sea There Are Crocodiles by Fabio Geda Here We Are by Oliver Jeffers Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell The Swallow’s Flight, part 2 of the Skylark’s War Series by Hilary McKay Boy, Everywhere by AM Dassu The Boy at the Back of the Class by Onjali Q. Rauf Hidden by Miriam Halahmy Welcome to Nowhere by Elizabeth Laird The Crossing by Manjeet Mann Illegal by Eoin Colfer and Andrew Donkin Begin Again by Oliver Jeffers Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward