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A Julia Eccleshare Pick of the Month March 2024
Award-winning Children’s Laureate Joseph Coelho and illustrator Fiona Lumbers have created a beautiful new title to add to their delightful series about Luna and the community she grows up in.
This time Luna shares her love of gardening. Working with her Dad and her grandparents in the community garden Luna not only learns about planting and tending plants to help them grow well but also about the importance of gardening for the insects who help to pollinate them. She also learns how plants come from all across the world and how each tells its own story.
Julia Eccleshare M.B.E
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Luna Loves Gardening Synopsis
By award-winning Children's Laureate Joseph Coelho, the fifth book in the Luna Loves... series brings alive the art of gardening.
Luna is wowed by her local community garden, there are squashes and runner beans, potatoes and tomatoes and even an apple tree. But each plant hides a story.
Grandpa and Nana show her the Callaloo their family grew in Jamaica. It’s time for Luna to grab a trowel and sow seeds that will tell a new story for the whole community as they all discover their connection to the entire world.
Other books in the Luna Loves... series:
Luna Loves Library Day
Luna Loves Art
Luna Loves Dance
Luna Loves Christmas
Luna Loves Books board book
About This Edition
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9781839131578 |
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7th March 2024 |
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Joseph Coelho |
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Fiona Lumbers |
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Andersen Press Ltd |
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Hardback |
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32 pages |
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Luna Loves... |
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Joseph Coelho Press Reviews
Praise for the Luna Series:
‘Not all families are the same – and that is a great message to celebrate‘ - Laura Dockrill
‘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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