Our Tower

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Action Adventures - chills, thrills and plenty of spills
Friends & Family - tears and laughter, and happy ever after
Poetry - rhyme, rhythm and rap

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4 out 5

Featured in BookTrust’s Great Books Guide 2023

From award-winning children’s poet Joseph Coelho comes this enchanting story of three kids looking for adventure in their tower block.

Drawn from Coelho’s own experience growing up in a tower block, this is a celebration and reclaiming of them as places full of power and magic.

A power that resides
in the smiles of our neighbours.
A magic that seeps out
when we swap our home-baked flavours.

A deeply personal story written by the award-winning poet Joseph Coelho, drawn from his own experience growing up in a tower block and looking for adventure. Three children living in the tower block travel to a strange, magical world inside a tree and meet an old man with supernatural powers… only to realise that the magic they’d been looking for had been in the tower block all that time, in the form of community and connection. Beautiful illustrations complement the poetic narrative, creating an enchanting story that children and adults alike will fall in love with. This powerful story shows us the true beauty of home and community. It’s a modern-day fable about how society separates ‘urban’ spaces from the countryside, when the reality is that nature is everywhere, and everyone should have access to it.

I have read this book

I loved the pictures and how they found that magic of nature was all around them

Officer Cupcake Biscuits 26.07.2024

The story says about three friends going for an adventure to find the magic in the forest. They were in search of a tree in the forest which they see it from their tower. Yes, I recommend it to my friends.

Senorita Kiki Partridge 02.07.2024

Star Reviewer

it looks a bit scary but it isnt

Director Panther Sheep-Dip 01.09.2023

I liked that they were happy at the end and everyone was playing.

Coach Stinky Toothpaste 22.08.2023

No story and hard to follow

Countess Amazonia Bertrand 16.08.2023

No story hard to fillow

Anonymous 16.08.2023

The illustrations were beautiful and the message they were trying to get through was heart warming

Fairy Fenella Palm-tree 13.08.2023

I put 1 because i thought the other books i had read where better and i got 2 this time and i think it is the best and there is more intresting books in the library

Officer Beany Snivel 29.08.2022

I really enjoyed this book as it made me reflect on nature and how we should have balance with it and within our homes and how we should see the beauty and magic in both.

Marshal Gargoyle Piccalilli 16.08.2022

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