Today sees the launch of this book (completely free), which is a collection of short stories, poems, essays and pictures that has contributions from more than 110 children’s writers and illustrators, including Lauren Child, Anthony Horowitz, Greg James and Chris Smith, Michael Morpurgo, Liz Pichon, Axel Scheffler, Francesca Simon, Jacqueline Wilson – and Katherine herself.
According to the National Literacy Trust, ‘The Book of Hopes aims to comfort, inspire and encourage children during lockdown through delight, new ideas, ridiculous jokes and heroic tales. There are true accounts of cats and hares and plastic-devouring caterpillars; there are doodles and flowers; revolting poems and beautiful poems; and there are stories of space travel and new shoes and dragons’.
I have just had a quick flick through the book, and particularly like Hope-o-potamus. Let me know which poem is your favourite.
This book sounds good to read.
I read one short poem and it is so good.
Let us know which one you enjoyed Aurora.
Hope page 18
I liked The Toilet Ghost Dog because it was funny and it had a puppy in it.
Ooh, I haven’t read that one – I’ll make sure that I do, thanks Oliver.
I’ve just read it – what a surprising ending!