Joseph Coelho

Joseph Coelho is a British poet and children’s book author who was elected Children’s Laureate in 2022.

Picture books

Luna Loves Library Day with illustrator Fiona Lumbers (Nominated for the 2018 Greenaway Medal)

Luna Loves Art with illustrator Fiona Lumbers

Luna Loves Dance with illustrator Fiona Lumbers

Luna Loves World Book Day with illustrator Fiona Lumbers

The Hairdo That Got Away with illustrator Fiona Lumbers

If All The World Were….with illustrator Allison Colpoys (winner of the Independent Bookshop Week Book Award 2019)

My Beautiful Voice with illustrator Allison Colpoys (Winner of the Indie Book Awards 2022)

No Longer Alone with illustrator Robyn Wilson-Owen

Our Tower with illustrator Richard Johnson

Thank You with illustrator Sam Usher

Middle-Grade

Fairy Tales Gone Bad – Zombierella, illustrated by Freya Hartas

Fairy Tales Gone Bad – Frankenstiltskin, illustrated by Freya Hartas

Fairy Tales Gone Bad – Creeping Beauty, illustrated by Freya Hartas

Run, Friend , Run! Illustrated by Davide Ortu

Short-Stories

“Hope Hunter”, in The Book of Hopes, ed. Katherine Rundell

“Amelia St-Claire and the Long-Armed Killer”, in Happy Here, introduced by Sharna Jackson

Poetry

Werewolf Club Rules, illustrated by John O’Leary

winner of the CLPE CLIPPA Poetry Award 2015

Overheard in a Tower Block, illustrated by Kate Milner

Long-listed for the 2018 Carnegie medal

Shortlisted for the CLPE Poetry Award 2018

Long-listed for the 2019 UKLA Book Awards

A Year of Nature Poems, Illustrated by Kelly Louise Judd

Poems Aloud, illustrated by Daniel Gray-Barnett

Smile Out Loud, illustrated by Daniel Gray-Barnett

Blow a Kiss Catch a Kiss, illustrated by Nicola Killen

How to Write Poems, illustrated by Matt Robertson

Young adult

The Girl Who Became a Tree

Shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal and the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal,

Special Mention for the 2021 Bologna Ragazzi Poetry Award

The Boy Lost in the Maze, Illustrated by Kate Milner