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A Julia Eccleshare Pick of the Month April 2023 | Interest Age 5-8
Children’s Laureate tells a beautifully rounded story full of his hallmark humanity and love of nature, and written in the best style of his poetry.
Grumpy Mr Buxton seems to be keen to stop Miles and his friend enjoying the beautiful woods near where he lives. But, when Miles takes care of a lost little budgie, it leads him to finding a completely different side to Mr Buxton.
Mr Buxton had been the previous owner of the budgie and it turns out he and Miles share a deep love of nature. Easy to read by readers of a wide range of ages, Budgie shows that stories that carry big emotions can be simply written.
Julia Eccleshare M.B.E
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Budgie Synopsis
A lost little budgie brings together a young boy and his seemingly grumpy older neighbour in this touching Little Gem from award-winner and Children's Laureate Joseph Coelho.
Mr Buxton always seems to be cross, and he shouts at Miles and his friends for climbing the trees outside their tower block.
But when Miles finds a lost little budgie, he discovers that he and Mr Buxton have more in common than they ever could have imagined.
“Budgie was a pleasure to write, it grew out of a memory of finding a grounded budgie one day on the way to school and rushing home to nurse it better. This childhood memory is especially bright because it contains the unexpected surprise of nature, a vibrant bird on a cold London street. That bird led to a story that has stayed with me and I hope it stays with the readers that discover it. Hopefully this story will encourage them to look.” - Joseph Coelho
About This Edition
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9781800901407 |
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6th April 2023 |
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Joseph Coelho |
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David Barrow |
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Barrington Stoke Ltd |
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Paperback |
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83 pages |
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Little Gems |
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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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