Speak Up!
$17.98
- Paperback
32 pages
- Release Date
9 January 2024
Summary
Join the brilliantly passionate and instantly loveable Rocket as she organises a peaceful protest to save her local library!
Bookworm Rocket loves to collect new books on her weekly visit to the library, and to read all about inspirational figures like Rosa Parks. She is heartbroken when she discovers the library will be closing down! Can she use what she’s learnt from Rosa and speak up to save the day?
This empowering, heartwarming picture book is a love letter to libraries a…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241345870 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241345871 |
| Author: | Nathan Bryon, Dapo Adeola |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House Children's UK |
| Imprint: | Puffin |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 32 |
| Release Date: | 9 January 2024 |
| Weight: | 193g |
| Dimensions: | 4mm x 232mm x 284mm |
| Audience Age: | 2-5 |
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Nathan Bryon
Nathan Bryon (Author)
Nathan Bryon is an actor, a BAFTA-nominated writer, and a Sunday Times Bestselling Author. He grew up eating as much Caribbean food from Uxbridge Road as his bank balance would allow. His first book, Look Up!, was the number 1 picture book from a debut author and illustrator in 2019 and won the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize in 2020.
Nathan’s debut feature film, Rye Lane, which he co-wrote with Tom Melia, was released in 2023. The movie was made in partnership with BFI, BBC Films, and Fox Searchlight and received 16 BIFA nominations.
Dapo Adeola (Illustrator)
Dapo Adeola is an illustrator, author, and character designer who was awarded Illustrator of the Year at The British Book Awards in 2022. Dapo rocketed into the picture book world with his greatly acclaimed illustrator debut, Look Up!, written by Nathan Bryon and published by Puffin in 2019, which won the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize in 2020.
Dapo illustrated My Dad is a Grizzly Bear and My Mum Is a Lioness, written by award-winning author Swapna Haddow, and collaborated with Malorie Blackman on their picture book We’re Going to Find the Monster!
Dapo made his author debut in 2021 with the Puffin-published picture book Hey You!: An Empowering Celebration of Growing Up Black, featuring 18 talented Black British illustrators, which also went on to win Illustrated Book of the Year at The British Book Awards in 2022. Dapo was announced as the winner of the inaugural Illustrator of the Year Award for The Laugh Out Loud Book Awards (the Lollies), which celebrates the best and funniest children’s books in the UK and Ireland, voted for by children, in 2023.
Born in Britain and of Nigerian heritage, Dapo is an avid believer in the importance of equal representation in the creative arts. He currently lives in Manchester.
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