The Latest Breaking News from Joseph Coelho

Booker prize launches £50,000 children’s award

Children will help judge the new prize along with children’s laureate Frank Cottrell-Boyce

The Guardian - UK · Oct 23, 2025

Scottish schoolgirl among child cancer survivors who inspired poem about courage

Former children’s laureate Joseph Coelho was assisted by the youngsters to write Courage Looks Like Me.

Evening Standard · Dec 4, 2024

Have a stately Christmas: 10 historic houses and gardens to get the festive party started

Scrooge, Santa, polar bears, gingerbread and light shows are among this year’s seasonal family delights at castles, palaces and Palladian piles throughout the UK

The Guardian - UK · Nov 5, 2024

Carnegie medal for children’s books shortlist announced

A reinterpretation of the Minotaur myth, poetry exploring refugee experiences and a picture book looking at the human impact on nature all feature on the shortlist judged solely by librarians

The Guardian - UK · Mar 13, 2024

Best children’s books of 2023

Dream-seeking bears, a pancake-making lion, an ingenious guide to rewilding and more

The Guardian - UK · Dec 7, 2023

‘Libraries are the heart of community’: children’s laureate Joseph Coelho on inspiring the next generation of writers

Since his first anthology in 2014, Coelho has become a prolific author for children and YA readers – and it all started, he says, in a vital community space

The Guardian - UK · Oct 6, 2023

Children’s and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels

A very grumpy toddler; poems for the planet; ancient demons unleashed; and a moving YA trafficking tale

The Guardian - UK · Aug 24, 2023

5 new books to read this week

This week’s bookcase includes reviews of The Trackers by Charles Frazier and Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead.

The Independent UK · Aug 2, 2023

Royal Society of Literature aims to broaden representation as it announces 62 new fellows

RSL president Bernadine Evaristo highlights need to change to become an organisation for all writers rather than just the white and middle class

The Guardian - UK · Jul 12, 2023

I set out to find the happiness I felt as a child, and it worked – let me tell you how I did it

Rediscovering old, simple joys such as music, photography and Lego made me wonder why I abandoned them in the first place, says poet Joseph Coelho

The Guardian - UK · Apr 23, 2023