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How To Speak Like an Animal

How To Speak Like an Animal

How To Speak Like an Animal

Learn about the importance of empathy, as Matt Haig shows us how conversations help us to understand how other people feel.

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Hear Matt Haig read from Evie and the Animals.

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Matt Haig

As well as being a number one bestselling writer for adults, Matt Haig has won the Blue Peter Book Award, the Smarties Book Prize and been nominated three times for the Carnegie Medal for his stories for children and young adults. He has sold more than a million books in the UK and his work has been translated into over forty languages. Most recently, The Truth Pixie was a Sunday Times children’s bestseller. And his novel A Boy Called Christmas is currently being made into a major film from the makers of Paddington.

Website: www.kids.matthaig.com
Twitter: @matthaig1
Instagram: mattzhaig

Also by this author

Evie and the Animals

Illustrated by: Emily Gravett
Published by: Canongate 

A Boy Called Christmas

Illustrated by: Chris Mould
Published by: Canongate 

The Truth Pixie

Illustrated by: Chris Mould
Published by: Canongate 

The Truth Pixie Goes to School

Illustrated by: Chris Mould
Published by: Canongate 

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