Our Tower

Our Tower tells the story of three children living in a tower block who find beauty and wonder in their building and its community.

About the author

JOSEPH COELHO is the Waterstones Children's Laureate 2022-2024. In 2019 he won the Independent Bookshop Week Picture Book Award for If All the World Were which has been translated into over 10 languages. He has been long-listed for The Carnegie Children's Award with his poetry collection 'Overheard In A Tower Block', which was also shortlisted for the CLPE CLiPPA Poetry Award and Longlisted for the UKLA Book Awards. He won the 2015 CLPE CLiPPA Poetry Award with his debut poetry collection Werewolf Club Rules. His debut Picture Book, Luna Loves Library Day was voted one of the nations favourite picture books by a survey led by World Book Day. His other poetry books include How To Write Poems and A Year Of Nature Poems . He has written plays for companies including: Soho Theatre, Polka Theatre, The Unicorn Theatre, Theatre Royal York, Oily Cart and The Spark Children's Festival to name a few.  Joseph has been a guest poet on Cbeebies Rhyme Rocket, Radio 4's Poetry Playtime and Front Row. He is the presenter of BBC's Teach Poetry (Oct 2018) and features in DiscoveryEDUK's Poetry CurriculumRichard Johnson is an illustrator whose picture books have been published by Penguin, Faber & Faber, Macmillan, DK, and many others. His work is deeply thoughtful and conjures up powerful atmospheres with detailed, delicate pencil strokes.

Summary

Our Tower tells the story of three children living in a tower block who find beauty and wonder in their building and its community.

Product details

• Authors: Joseph Coelho, Coelho Joseph, Joseph Coelho
• Assisted by: Richard Johnson (Illustration)
• Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 6 to 10
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.08.2022
• EAN: 9780711268821
• ISBN: 978-0-7112-6882-1
• No. of pages: 48
• Weight: 520 g
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Story books, fairytales, sagas, rhymes, songs; JUVENILE FICTION / Action & Adventure / General, JUVENILE FICTION / Fantasy & Magic, JUVENILE FICTION / Lifestyles / City & Town Life, Family & home stories (Children's / Teenage), Adventure stories (Children's / Teenage), Interest age: from c 6 years, Poetry (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage: Poetry, Children’s / Teenage general interest: City and town life, Picture storybooks: imagination and play