The Girl Who Became a Tree

Joseph Coelho is a performance poet and playwright. His debut poetry collection Werewolf Club Rules won the CLPE CLiPPA Poetry Award 2015.  As well as poetry, he also writes plays, picture books and non-fiction. His collection Overheard in a Tower Block was published by Otter-Barry Books in 2017 and was longlisted for the Carnegie Medal and shortlisted for the CLiPPA. The Girl Who Became a Tree was published in hardback in 2020 and was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and won the Bologna Ragazzi Award for Poetry. Joseph is a staunch ambassador for Britain's straitened public libraries. He lives in Kent. www.thepoetryofjosephcoelho.com. Joseph became the Waterstones Children's Laureate in 2022. Kate Milner studied illustration at Central St Martin’s before completing an MA in Children’s Book Illustration at Anglia Ruskin University. Kate won the V&A Illustration Award 2016 and the Klaus Flugge Prize 2018 for My name is not Refugee. Kate is particularly passionate about libraries; she continues to be involved with every kind of activity from Storytime for toddlers to teen reading groups at her local library. Her most recent book is It's a No-Money Day (2019, Barrington Stoke), which was shortlisted for the Greenaway Medal.