My Words, My Book

• 4 - Dan Freedman and Daniel Geey

  Dan Freedman and Daniel Geey   Dan and Daniel discuss how important it is for children to know and understand there are other careers outside of playing football. Dan also shares the background to the popular Jamie Johnson series. They discuss how their passion for football led them into their current careers - Daniel talks about how he became a football lawyer. We also discuss the importance of libraries as well as the rise in women’s football and how there is an equal balance of stories in 50 Ways into Football. Dan is a Sunday Times bestselling author whose global book sales have surpassed one million copies. He’s best known for his hugely popular series of Jamie Johnson football novels. The series has helped get a generation of reluctant readers into books and has been adapted for TV by the BBC. As well as his role as a lawyer, Daniel has written and co-authored several bestselling books, speaks at global conferences, posts regular blogs and co-hosts ‘The Dan and Omar Show’ podcast where he (mainly) talks about football with Omar Chaudhuri. He also hosts his own podcast ‘Build the Invisible’. KS2, KS3  Please click on here to watch Jamie Johnson series. Jamie Johnson - BBC iPlayer Tapestry, our partners have kindly devised a FREE educational resource to support this Podcast. Please click on the link to download and share: https://tapestry.info/laura-henry-allain-podcast-activities/ Tapestry is the original and leading childhood education platform, providing an online learning journal, progress monitoring and management system for Early Years settings and primary schools. It helps educators to celebrate children and engage families in mainstream and SEND provision. Tapestry keeps families in touch with how their child is doing, enables educators to build a picture of each child's development and interests, and provides the tools for the daily running of a setting. Created by educators for educators, Tapestry was launched in 2012. We are now an award-winning platform used in more than 40 countries, supporting 14,000 schools and settings. Visit us at: https://tapestry.info

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• 3 - Kelechi Okafor, Nigerian-born Londoner, writer, presenter and social commentator

  Kelechi Okafor is a Nigerian-born Londoner – a writer, presenter, social commentator and tour de force in challenging how we think about race, oppression and femininity. Although Kelechi wears many hats, the head those hats are stylishly perched upon is one filled with incisive observations about society, culture and specifically Black womanhood. In this podcast, Kelechi discusses her Nigerian roots and the importance of children owning their identity. She also talks about how our identity is at the core of who we are and why we should empower children to be proud of their identity.  She explains why Wellington boots are great and why they develop a sense of belonging. In Strong Like Me, Kelechi stresses the importance of girls being able to play sport without being told that sport isn’t for them.    EYFS, KS1, KS2, KS3 Tapestry, our partners have kindly devised a FREE educational resource to support this Podcast. Please click on the link to download and share: https://tapestry.info/laura-henry-allain-podcast-activities/   My Words, My Book is delighted to be partnering with Tapestry. Tapestry is the original and leading childhood education platform, providing an online learning journal, progress monitoring and management system for Early Years settings and primary schools. It helps educators to celebrate children and engage families in mainstream and SEND provision. Tapestry keeps families in touch with how their child is doing, enables educators to build a picture of each child's development and interests, and provides the tools for the daily running of a setting. Created by educators for educators, Tapestry was launched in 2012. We are now an award-winning platform used in more than 40 countries, supporting 14,000 schools and settings. Visit us at: https://tapestry.info

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• 2 - Camilla Reid, author of the Pip and Posy stories and the Peekaboo series.

  In this episode, Camilla shares the importance of early reading and how board books are a great example for older children as an inspiration for them to create their own books. Camilla also talks about how she engages with illustrators in the process of creating her books and discusses how her book Is Dot in the House? provokes awe and wonder in children. Camilla has written more than 200 books, including the Pip and Posy stories and the Peekaboo series. As a passionate campaigner for shared reading, she believes that the daily habit of cuddling up together with a book – even if it’s for just five minutes – is the key to a positive school experience and to better life chances.   EYFS, KS1, KS2  Tapestry, our partners have kindly devised a FREE educational resource to support this Podcast. Please click on the link to download and share: https://tapestry.info/laura-henry-allain-podcast-activities/   My Words, My Book is delighted to be partnering with Tapestry. Tapestry is the original and leading childhood education platform, providing an online learning journal, progress monitoring and management system for Early Years settings and primary schools. It helps educators to celebrate children and engage families in mainstream and SEND provision. Tapestry keeps families in touch with how their child is doing, enables educators to build a picture of each child's development and interests, and provides the tools for the daily running of a setting. Created by educators for educators, Tapestry was launched in 2012. We are now an award-winning platform used in more than 40 countries, supporting 14,000 schools and settings. Visit us at: https://tapestry.info  

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• 1 - Joseph Coelho OBE, multi-award-winning children’s author, poet and playwright.

  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. Tapestry, our partners have kindly devised a FREE educational resource to support this Podcast. Please click on the link to download and share: https://tapestry.info/laura-henry-allain-podcast-activities/   My Words, My Book is delighted to be partnering with Tapestry. Tapestry the original and leading childhood education platform, providing an online learning journal, progress monitoring and management system for Early Years settings and primary schools. It helps educators to celebrate children and engage families in mainstream and SEND provision. Tapestry keeps families in touch with how their child is doing, enables educators to build a picture of each child's development and interests, and provides the tools for the daily running of a setting. Created by educators for educators, Tapestry was launched in 2012. We are now an award-winning platform used in more than 40 countries, supporting 14,000 schools and settings. Visit us at: https://tapestry.info

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• An introduction to My Words, My Book

  My Words, My Book, is an original children's podcast aimed at supporting children's love of books and reading. This comes at a time of national decline in children's reading enjoyment, according to the National Literacy Trust. My Words, My Book features authors' interviews offering children unique insights into the creative process behind some of their most beloved stories and explaining what is it like to be an author. The shows will feature fiction and non-fiction and combines interviews with emerging authors as well as those who are well known. It will reach children across different platforms, podcast channels, YouTube and will be linked to social media channels. My Words, My Book will offer a platform to authors who do not have the reach or resources to promote their books and will serve the many schools nationally and internationally that do not have the budget for author visits. Four charities will benefit from books donated by authors, Fences and Frontiers, the Grenada Community Library, Kinship and the South Norwood Community Kitchen. My Words, My Book will be available for all children including those who are home educated, those attending school online and those who are in hospital.  The beauty of My Words, My Book is that children can watch or listen at a time that is suitable for them and as many times as they like. My Words, My Book is an evergreen resource. My Words, My Book will be available on YouTube, Spotify and Apple. Follow My Words, My Book on social media. My Words, My Book is the link.  Please email Laura for all press inquiries, [email protected]. We can't wait for you to enjoy My Words, My Book.

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