Joseph Coelho OBE is a multi-award-winning children’s author, poet and playwright. He is two-time winner of the Indie Book Awards. His poetry collection Werewolf Club Rules! won the 2015 Centre for Literacy in Primary Poetry Award. He won the 2024 Carnegie Medal for Writing with The Boy Lost in The Maze, illustrated by Kate Milner, and was Waterstones Children's Laureate 2022 - 2024.

In this podcast, Joseph shares his inspiration for poems and how poetry is central to storytelling. He talks about his experience of being the Children’s Laureate for two years and how libraries were his focus during this time. Joseph reveals his tops tips that he shares with children and reflects on his childhood and how an author visiting his school inspired him to be a poet and to write children’s books. He also shares a behind-the-scenes look at how Ten-Word Tiny Tales of Love invites children to share their words.

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