LoveReading4Kids Says
Joyful and inspiring, Luna Loves to Dance celebrates a little girl as she finds the best way of expressing herself through dance. Luna is discouraged because she doesn't complete the steps needed to pass a dance test but, helped by her father and all her friends and relations, she soon finds that all dance steps are part of her everyday life. And she can do them! She can leap and shimmy and boogie. It feels as if she is flying. Suddenly, the world is full of colour and sound again as Luna expresses herself fluently. Children's Laureate and award-winning poet Joseph Coelho's lyrical text and Fiona Lumbars's exuberant illustrations perfectly capture Luna's changing emotions while also inspiring us all to see the special powers of dance.
Julia Eccleshare M.B.E
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Luna Loves Dance Synopsis
Discover the joy of dancing and the importance of family, whatever your culture, ability or style with Luna!
When Luna dances, she feels like the world's volume turns up, like all colours brighten, like sunlight sparkles behind every cloud. But when she takes her dance exam she ducks, dives, spins and... falls. Luna thinks she can't be a real dancer now. Can Luna's family convince her otherwise?
About This Edition
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9781839130564 |
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2nd September 2021 |
| Author: |
Joseph Coelho |
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Fiona Lumbers |
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Andersen Press Ltd |
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Hardback |
| Pagination: |
30 pages |
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Luna Loves... |
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Joseph Coelho Press Reviews
Luna Loves Art offers [the comfort that] not all families look the same - and that is a great message to celebrate. Laura Dockrill
Luna Loves Library Day is a touching reflection on the power of reading to bring families together; Fiona Lumbers' illustrations convey Luna's vivid inner life, while Coelho's lyrical style celebrates the joyful curiosity of early childhood. Amnesty International
About Joseph Coelho
Joseph Coelho is the Waterstones Children’s Laureate 2022-2024, and an award-winning poet, playwright and writer. His first poetry collection, Werewolf Club Rules!, won the CLPE Children's Poetry Award in 2015, and he has been writing and performing ever since. His picture books include If All the World Were... illustrated by Allison Colpoys and Luna Loves Library Day illustrated by Fiona Lumbers. His poetry books for children include Overheard in a Tower Block illustrated by Kate Milner and A Year of Nature Poems illustrated by Kelly Louise Judd.
His ‘Story told in poems’, for age 12+, The Girl Who Became A Tree, was shortlisted for The 2021 Carnegie Medal and received a special mention from the Bologna Ragazzi Award 2021. His YA verse novel, The Boy Lost in the Maze, is longlisted for the Yoto Carnegie Award for Writing 2024, has been chosen as an outstanding international book for The White Ravens collection 2023 and has also been nominated as an IBBY Honour Book for 2024.
He has written plays for the Polka Theatre, the Lyric, Hammersmith, and the Unicorn Theatre. He creates dynamic poetry theatre pieces for young people that he tours nationally. He also performs with the UK's top performance poetry organisation, Apples and Snakes, visiting venues across the UK. Joseph has been a guest poet in Cbeebies' Rhyme Rocket.
Originally from London, he now lives by the sea in Kent.
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