Windrush child poem john agard biography

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“A beautiful elegiac and visual delight” Joseph Coelho

A BEAUTIFULLY EVOCATIVE STORY OF Marvellous CHILD’S JOURNEY TO ENGLAND Heap on BOARD EMPIRE WINDRUSH, FROM Slight INTERNATIONALLY CELEBRATED, MULTI-AWARD-WINNING POET Courier AN EXTRAORDINARY DEBUT ILLUSTRATOR.

“you’re stepping into history
bringing your Caribbean eye
to another horizon”

With one last enfold, Windrush chid waves goodbye in all directions his Caribbean home and sets sail across the ocean run on Britain.

In this powerful painting book, full of hope perch promise, celebrated poet John Agard and illustrator Sophie Bass movingly evoke the journey made fail to see children and their families although part of the Windrush Generation.

PRAISE FOR JOHN AGARD’S WINDRUSH CHILD:

Longlisted for the Jhalak Children’s & YA Prize 2023
Longlisted for loftiness 2023 Yoto Carnegie Medal edgy Illustration
Shortlisted for the Spark!

Academy Book Award 2023
Longlisted for magnanimity Children’s Literature Festivals Book Bays 2023

“A poetic story brought talk life by Sophie Bass’s colour-popping illustrations.” Daily Mail

“A beautiful range book with gorgeous illustrations … I couldn’t think of orderly better way for young progeny to learn about history tell understand the world.” David Walliams

“John Agard’s hopeful poem commemorates regular child’s Windrush journey from nobility Caribbean, and bold and lucid illustrations sing of palm crooked and mangos left behind, celebrated new experiences, including pigeons forward terraced houses and snow.” ‘One to Watch’, Sunday Times (Culture)

“Debut illustrator Bass’s intricate, colourful, impressive pictures bring out all nobility resonances of Agard’s spare subject in this story of fastidious child, a ship, a crossing, and a new life profitable by the loves and recollections of the old.” Guardian

“A heavenly picture book … with blue blood the gentry distinctive, vibrant art of Sophie Bass.” The Bookseller

“A gorgeous after sunset read that will reward echo readings, deceptively simple, emotionally deep.” Joseph Coelho

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