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Children Chatting With Author Alex Aster

Episode Summary

Join the Children Chatting members as they interview award-winning author Alex Aster about her debut book Emblem Island: Curse of the Night Witch and about being an author.


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Participant(s) Bio

Author Alex Aster:

Alex is the award-winning author of Emblem Island: Curse of the Night Witch, the first in a series inspired by the stories that her Colombian grandmother used to tell her before bedtime. Alex recently graduated summa cum laude from UPenn, where she studied English.

Her debut Emblem Island: Curse of the Night Witch, has received starred reviews from Kirkus and Publisher’s Weekly and was on Good Morning America. Emblem Island also recently won an International Latin American Book Award.


Book cover for Curse of the Night Witch
Curse of the Night Witch
Aster, Alex


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