LoveReading4Kids Says
LoveReading4Kids Says
Shortlisted for the CLiPPA 2023
Children’s Laureate Joseph Coelho’s warm, elegant and meaningful poems capture both how pre- schoolers experience everyday things like going shopping and the complexities of feelings as they are felt and expressed by the very youngest listeners.
Carefully grouped under headings including All About Me, What do I Feel, and At Home these poems highlight moments familiar to all children and extend them in eloquent words that make them exciting and also safe. Nicola Killen’s illustrations match the words perfectly.
Julia Eccleshare M.B.E
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Blow a Kiss, Catch a Kiss Synopsis
A beautifully illustrated anthology of forty-four short poems by award-winning Children's Laureate Joseph Coelho, designed to be shared together.
Blow a kiss, catch a kiss when we are apart.
Blow a kiss, catch a kiss put it in your heart.
From Eye Caterpillars to The Journey Game, and from Dancing Families to Dreamtime, this collection of fun and heart-warming poems from award-winning children's poet Joseph Coelho are perfect for sharing everyday feelings and experiences.
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9781839131561 |
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5th October 2023 |
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Joseph Coelho |
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Nicola Killen |
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Andersen Press Ltd |
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Paperback |
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48 pages |
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Press Reviews
Joseph Coelho Press Reviews
'A delightful selection of interactive poems for toddlers... illustrated with a multitude of gorgeous children by Killen'- The Bookseller, Editor's Choice
'Illustrated by Nicola Killen, these are ‘poems to share with little ones’, and they demonstrate Coelho’s enviable gift of getting inside toddler lives, delivered with fun and tenderness' - Books for Keeps
'Perfectly pitched for modern families and covering a range of topics that will be familiar to all, this anthology for babies and toddlers presents a collection of brand-new poems that already feel like much-loved classics' - Books for Keeps
'The new children’s laureate with a collection of beautifully illustrated poems about everyday (young) life' - Reader's Digest, 2022 Best Children's Books
'Perfect for sharing everyday feelings and experiences with babies and toddlers' - BookTrust
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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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