LoveReading4Kids Says
LoveReading4Kids Says
Children’s Laureate 2022-24 Joseph Coelho captures the warmth, fun and Christmas magic by putting a massive all-inclusive hug all around it.
Luna is used to a happy Christmas sometimes with her mum and sometimes with her dad. This year she is sharing with everyone, as mum and dad are both volunteering to make sure that everyone can have a very happy Christmas. Taking presents and food to people in need in homes all around her community on the night before Christmas with mum, Luna enjoys playing with new friends and listening to a special new Christmas story before making Christmas cookies with her dad and falling asleep exhausted. And, on Christmas Day itself, along with her mum, dad and grandparents, she enjoys the best Christmas ever with everyone. And Santa, of course!
Julia Eccleshare M.B.E
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Luna Loves Christmas Synopsis
From award-winning Children's Laureate Joseph Coelho, the fourth book in the Luna Loves... series celebrates separated families at Christmas time, and shows the power of giving to bring people together.
Luna loves Christmas. Sometimes at Mum's, sometimes at Dad's, she gets two trees, two dinners, two advent calendars to open . . . but this Christmas, Luna's family are doing something different. They're volunteering, and Luna can't wait for them to all be together at the community Christmas dinner!
Other books in the Luna Loves... series:
Luna Loves Library Day
Luna Loves Art
Luna Loves Dance
Luna Loves Gardening
Luna Loves Books board book
About This Edition
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9781839131677 |
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5th September 2024 |
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Joseph Coelho |
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Fiona Lumbers |
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Andersen Press an imprint of Andersen Press Ltd |
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Paperback |
| Pagination: |
32 pages |
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Luna Loves... |
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Press Reviews
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
Author
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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