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Blow a Kiss, Catch a Kiss

by Joseph Coelho, illustrated by Nicola Killen

Interest age: 4 to 5

Published by Andersen Press, 2022

About this book

Blow a Kiss, Catch a Kiss is series of heart-warming modern poems perfect for sharing everyday feelings and experiences with babies and toddlers.

The anthology includes 44 fun poems that will invite lovely, playful conversations and interactions between carers and very young children.

Split into four sections: All About Me, Out and About, What Do I Feel and At Home, Children’s Laureate 2022 Joseph Coelho and Nicola Killen visit every corner of the small child’s sensory-world – bath time, going to the supermarket, riding elevators, eating favourite foods, collecting rocks, feeling angry, leaping about, playing in the sand, painting – and weave around them wonderful rhyming spells and pictures which cannot fail to enchant and stimulate little ones.

About the author

Joseph Coelho is an award-winning children's author, performance poet and playwright based in London. He is also the Waterstones Children's Laureate for 2022-2024. His debut poetry collection, Werewolf Club Rules, was the 2015 winner of the CLPE CLiPPA Poetry Award. His second book, Overheard in a Tower Block, was shortlisted for the 2018 CLPE CLiPPA Poetry Award and is longlisted for the 2019 UKLA Book Awards. Joseph features in the BBC Teach 'Understanding Poetry' online series.

His work has poetry and performance at its heart, drawing on over 16 years' experience running dynamic creative literacy sessions in schools. He aims to inspire young people through stories and characters they can recognise.

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