Joseph Coelho jumping against a background of blue sky

Celebrate the Summer Reading Challenge

Years 1 – 2

Save the date for this joyous jamboree of Key Stage 1 reading.

About Celebrate the Summer Reading Challenge

Joseph Coelho jumping against a background of blue sky

We’re joined by Camden Libraries to turn up the volume on this summer's challenge. This joyous free online event for school Years 1 – 2 celebrates this year’s Summer Reading Challenge theme, Read to the Beat.

Special guests will deliver readings, performances, and lively sing-alongs. Including award-winning performance poet, playwright and children’s author Joseph Coelho.

  • Joseph Coelho

    Joseph Coelho OBE, is a multi-award-winning children’s author and playwright.

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    His YA Story Told in Poems: The Girl Who Became A Tree’ was shortlisted for The 2021 Carnegie Medal and received a special mention from the Bologna Ragazzi Award 2021. He has written plays for Little Angel Theatre, Tutti Frutti Productions, Polka Theatre and The Unicorn Theatre amongst others. He is two-time winner of the Indie Book Awards (2019 & 2022) with picture books If All The World Were... and My Beautiful Voice respectively (illustrated by Allison Colpoys). His poetry collection Werewolf Club Rules (illustrated by John O'leary) won the 2015 CLIPPA Poetry Award. His plays for adults have received a special commendation from the Verity Bargate Award and been longlisted for the Bruntwood Playwriting Competition. He won the 2024 Carnegie Medal for writing with The Boy Lost In The Maze (illustrated by Kate Milner) and was Waterstones Children's Laureate 2022 – 2024.

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