Overheard in a Tower Block
Author: Joseph Coelho
Illustrator: Kate Milner
Publisher: Otter-Barry Books
COLLECTION
LiteratureTHEMES
Empathy and Kindness Family Feelings Growing and Changing Rhyme and Song The Urban EnvironmentYEAR GROUP
Years 5 and 6BOOK TYPE
CorebooksThis second solo poetry collection from Joseph Coelho explores further some of the themes from Werewolf Club Rules (which won the CLiPPA in 2015). More suited to an older reader than that first collection, this is an extraordinarily powerful and moving book. Each poem offers us glimpses into the life of the main character as he grows, over the course of the collection, from young boy through adolescence to adulthood. The ingenious threading of fantasy, story, myth and magic throughout the poems only illuminates further the challenges and hardships of this young man’s life, but ultimately concludes in moments of optimism, joy and possibility.
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