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The Girl Who Became a Tree: A Story Told in Poems

English

By (author): Joseph Coelho

Illustrated by: Kate Milner

Daphne is unbearably sad and adrift. She feels the painful loss of her father acutely and seeks solace both in the security of her local library and the escape her phone screen provides by blocking out the world around her. As Daphne tries to make sense of what has happened she recalls memories of shared times and stories past, and in facing the darkness she finds a way back from the tangle of fear and confusion, to feel connected once more with her friends and family. The Girl Who Became a Tree sees Joseph Coelho deploy a wide variety of poetic forms with consummate skill in its narration of events. He seamlessly but searingly weaves together the ancient legend of Daphne, who was turned into a tree to avoid the attentions of the god Apollo, and a totally modern tale, mixing real-life and fantasy, in which a latter-day Daphne seeks her own freedom. This is a heart-stoppingly imaginative story told in poems, at times bleak and even tragic, which is layered, rich and ultimately a tour de force of poetic skill and energy.

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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 03 Nov 2022
  • Publisher: Otter-Barry Books Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • Age Group: Ages 12+
  • ISBN13: 9781913074074

About Joseph Coelho

Joseph Coelho is a performance poet and playwright. His debut poetry collection Werewolf Club Rules won the CLPE CLiPPA Poetry Award 2015.  As well as poetry he also writes plays picture books and non-fiction. His collection Overheard in a Tower Block was published by Otter-Barry Books in 2017 and was longlisted for the Carnegie Medal and shortlisted for the CLiPPA. The Girl Who Became a Tree was published in hardback in 2020 and was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and won the Bologna Ragazzi Award for Poetry. Joseph is a staunch ambassador for Britain's straitened public libraries. He lives in Kent. www.thepoetryofjosephcoelho.com. Joseph became the Waterstones Children's Laureate in 2022. Kate Milner studied illustration at Central St Martins before completing an MA in Childrens Book Illustration at Anglia Ruskin University. Kate won the V&A Illustration Award 2016 and the Klaus Flugge Prize 2018 for My name is not Refugee. Kate is particularly passionate about libraries; she continues to be involved with every kind of activity from Storytime for toddlers to teen reading groups at her local library. Her most recent book is It's a No-Money Day (2019 Barrington Stoke) which was shortlisted for the Greenaway Medal.

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