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My Beautiful Voice

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My Beautiful Voice by Joseph Coelho, and Ms. Allison Colpoys

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By Joseph Coelho, and and, Ms. Allison Colpoys

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A moving, lyrical picture book about a shy child unlocking the power of their own voice through poetry, with the helping hand of an extra special teacher, written by multi-award winning poet and Waterstones Children’s Laureate Joseph Coelho.

From the creators of If All The World Were, winner of the 2019 Independent Book Shop Picture Book Award which has been translated into 13 languages, this beautifully illustrated, powerful and heartwarming text shows children that everyone’s voice can be powerful and beautiful, however small.   

Allison Colpoys’ gorgeous artwork spills from every page as she shows this most heartwarming of tales. Follow a child who is so shy she doesn’t speak.

With the encouragement on an enchanting and magical teacher, she writes a poem. But a poem is meant to be read aloud! She musters all her courage, stands at the front of the class and shows her classmates that she does have a voice. And her voice is BEAUTIFUL!    The perfect way to encourage empathy in young children and show shy children how to feel brave, this beautiful story will delight readers time and time again. 

Reviews

11 Oct 2024

A great book

11 Sep 2024

A lovely story and beautiful pictures.

11 Sep 2024

I read this book twice and enjoyed it

24 Aug 2024

It had a nice massage

15 Aug 2024

Very good

09 Aug 2024

I didn't like this one.

30 Jul 2024

I loved the teacher and that she had lovely clothes and she was very adventurous. I loved the illustrations.

30 Jul 2024

I read this book at school and asked my Mummy to buy it for us for home. I like the singing, poems and the teacher Miss Flotsam. She has travelled all around the world and tells the class about her adventures. There is a girl in the book who is really shy, she writes a poem and manages to read it to the class. Sometimes I feel nervous at school too, so I could relate to this book and how it feels like you’re ’climbing a mountain’ when you stand up infront of everyone. The pages are colourful and pretty and the drawings are really good!

29 Jul 2024

There is something in this book that I love, which is poetry

25 Jul 2024

I like the book and the colors are very good

24 Jul 2024

It was quite nice story about why boy just like me.

18 Jul 2024

It shows what you can do

16 Jul 2024

I liked it because it sounded nice to read because it made me feel calm. The words used were interesting.

11 Jul 2024

really liked this book because it has lots of beautiful illustrations, full of bright colours and great imagination. I loved the topics discussed in the book such as important fellings and emotions.

08 Jul 2024

Intresting book!

26 Sep 2023

The illustrations were beautiful

09 Sep 2023

Nice book

08 Aug 2023

I was immediately drawn to the bold colours and detailed illustrations of this book. There was so much to look at, before even reading the text - the time on the school clock, 'reading' the expressions on faces, noticing how the classroom looks similar or different to our own. From the illustrations and text, we were captivated by the teacher who appears larger than life and who pulls us in as she tells of her many adventures. But the boy in the story is anxious. Like many children he is worried about having to perform in front of others. As the story develops, he finds encouragement, understanding and inspiration from his teacher, which helps him to find his beautiful voice.

31 Jul 2023

tells a person to just be confident and have courage in your life

26 Jul 2023

Good book

26 Jul 2023

It wasn't a very good book for my age. I'm 4.5 years old

25 Jul 2023

I liked that he was shy at the start to talk but at the end he's not shy at all.

01 Sep 2022

I liked the book it helped me to be confident to speak out loud to a group of people.

01 Sep 2022

It fictional book and I liked miss Floatsom because she has had lots of adventures. I will recommend this book because the tell you about to love your voice.

23 Aug 2022

It was a bit too easy but it lets me express my imagination because there is a teacher in it who likes writing poems. She tells a girl poems and the girl uses her imagination to see the poem.

16 Aug 2022

He finds different words to expressions himself. The book is bright and colourful.

08 Aug 2022

I would like to recommend this to a lot of people, if possible and I hope it inspires a lot of people to be confident about their actions and be proud of their (hopefully kind or brave) actions. ;)

04 Aug 2022

I enjoyed the story. I liked the quiet boy who finally read his poem to the whole class. We all have magical voices.

03 Aug 2022

This book is beautiful. Written in a poem like prose it depicts the worries and anxieties around reading aloud in front of others. It also shows children that their voices are meant to be heard and that through being resilient and persevering we can build our self confidence.
I would definitely recommend this to Key stage 1 and lower key stage 2 children especially when thinking about resilience and having a go.

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