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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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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: https://kids.matthaig.com/
Twitter: @matthaig1
Instagram: mattzhaig
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