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Diverse Cabbage: Julia on cross-cultural reading for The Sapling

Posted August 14, 2017 by Gecko Press

Gecko Press spot art from When I am Happiest, Dani reads a blue book with a cat and two guinea pigs

If reading is a bowl of cabbage, then we need to serve it with salt and pepper and garlic and butter and chilli and vinegar. Julia Marshall describes the importance of diverse reading at The Sapling.

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