Our Feature Books of the Week

25th Nov 2021

For our younger children our feature book is: 'Just Like Me' by Vanessa Brantley-Newton

The Amazon Review

From Vanessa Brantley-Newton, the author of Grandma's Purse, comes a collection of poetry filled with engaging mini-stories about girls of all kinds: girls who feel happy, sad, scared, powerful; girls who love their bodies and girls who don't; country girls, city girls; girls who love their mother and girls who wish they had a father. With bright portraits in Vanessa's signature style of vibrant colours and unique patterns and fabrics, this book invites readers to find themselves and each other within its pages.

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For our older children our feature book is: 'Funky Chickens' by Benjamin Zephaniah

The Waterstones Review

Enter the crazy world of rap poet Benjamin Zephaniah! A reissue of the wonderfully irreverent collection of poetry for young people, touching on anything from vegetables to the Queen and from sewage to the sun. There's plenty of humour as well as poems on racism, pollution and the murder of a cat.

Please click here for our 2021-22 SJF Book List.