Aïsha Philippe laughs as she tells the story of her pre-school self, so desperate to read that her mother would find her, upside-down book in hand, frustrated that she couldn’t yet make the magic of the text on the page in front of her come alive.
Today, she says, “Fiction, non-fiction … I’ll read anything!”
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