Ask the Author: Sade Fadipe
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Sade Fadipe
Writing challenges me to view the world from different perspectives and assume what a character might do, think or say under different circumstances. It's almost like being different people, all at once!
However, the best thing about being a Children's Author is in observing their desire to return to the same book over and over again - reading my stories, out of sheer pleasure!
However, the best thing about being a Children's Author is in observing their desire to return to the same book over and over again - reading my stories, out of sheer pleasure!
Sade Fadipe
One comment that I can't seam to shake off my mind came from a friend, after congratulating me. "So Sade, I suppose you'll be writing a 1,2,3 story next'.' Well, I enjoy being mysterious and although a 1,2,3 book may have sounded like a natural progression, I have to admit that other story plots have come to mind, far easier than a book on numbers - believe it or not.
So yes, I have 'written' a number book but I would also love to publish one of my less predictable adventure stories in the near future.
So yes, I have 'written' a number book but I would also love to publish one of my less predictable adventure stories in the near future.
Sade Fadipe
I guess it may have been to preserve the memory of certain experiences that I had as a child. I started my early life with a wonderful foster family in Kent. Rolvenden to be precise - which was a very serene rural setting; where picking strawberries and looking for mines were favourite past times. At the age of six my parents relocated to Nigeria, taking my older brother, I and my memories with them. We lived in Lagos and any one who knows Lagos would know that there is naturally nothing, quiet about the place for Lagos is synonymous with life-in-excess. It took a lot of getting used to. So it wasn't surprising that some of my most memorable times in Nigeria, were those spent far away from the busy bustle of Lagos life; at Grandad's who owned an expanse of land, a lemon plantation and a juice factory, where there was lots to explore. Being at Grandad's made me feel special and I often thought of how similar both worlds (though so far apart) were. Picking strawberries and plucking lemons. Some of those experiences I share in my book and in others to come.
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