Karen Foxlee on the world-broadening magic of encyclopedias

'Our mother had a dark heart feeling'. So begins Karen Foxlee's new children's novel, Lenny's Book of Everything, a story of the beetle-obsessed Lenny Spink, a boy who can't stop growing, and an encyclopedia that broadens their entire world.Karen Foxlee joins Angus Dalton to talk about her luminous, unforgettably moving book, and how her writing life began with sheets of butcher's paper in an outback mining town. Find out more about Lenny's Book of Everything: http://bit.ly/2qS4igT