JOSEPH COELHO - Smile Out Loud
Mon, 30 Jan
|Station Hall
Meet multi-award winning, children’s author, poet and Waterstones’ Children’s Laureate, Joseph Coelho, as he shares poems to make you smile, laugh and giggle from his collection Smile Out Loud. AGES 4+
Time & Location
30 Jan 2023, 11:00 – 11:45
Station Hall
About the Artists & Speakers
Joseph Coelho is a multi-award winning children’s author and playwright. He writes across several mediums for children including stage plays, picture books, non-fiction and middle grade. His latest ‘Story told in poems’ The Girl Who Became A Tree’ was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and received a special mention from the Bologna Ragazzi Award 2021. His latest stage play The Wishing Tree recently finished a run at the Little Angel Theatre in London. He wrote and presented ‘Teach Poetry’ - a 10-part BBC online series that aims to make the writing of poetry fun and accessible to all and is the Waterstones Children's Laureate 2022 - 2024.