Our Tower
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By Joseph Coelho and Richard Johnson
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12 reviews
Featured in BookTrust’s Great Books Guide 2023
From award-winning children’s poet Joseph Coelho comes this enchanting story of three kids looking for adventure in their tower block.
Drawn from Coelho’s own experience growing up in a tower block, this is a celebration and reclaiming of them as places full of power and magic.
A power that resides
in the smiles of our neighbours.
A magic that seeps out
when we swap our home-baked flavours.
A deeply personal story written by the award-winning poet Joseph Coelho, drawn from his own experience growing up in a tower block and looking for adventure.
Three children living in the tower block travel to a strange, magical world inside a tree and meet an old man with supernatural powers… only to realise that the magic they’d been looking for had been in the tower block all that time, in the form of community and connection.
Beautiful illustrations complement the poetic narrative, creating an enchanting story that children and adults alike will fall in love with. This powerful story shows us the true beauty of home and community. It’s a modern-day fable about how society separates ‘urban’ spaces from the countryside, when the reality is that nature is everywhere, and everyone should have access to it.
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I liked Our Tower because the children were creative and they went into the woods and they had fun. I loved it.
I liked the pictures best.
I loved the pictures and how they found that magic of nature was all around them
The story says about three friends going for an adventure to find the magic in the forest. They were in search of a tree in the forest which they see it from their tower.
Yes, I recommend it to my friends.
it looks a bit scary but it isnt
I liked that they were happy at the end and everyone was playing.
No story and hard to follow
No story hard to fillow
The illustrations were beautiful and the message they were trying to get through was heart warming
I put 1 because i thought the other books i had read where better and i got 2 this time and i think it is the best and there is more intresting books in the library
I really enjoyed this book as it made me reflect on nature and how we should have balance with it and within our homes and how we should see the beauty and magic in both.
A poetic story where each word has been carefully chosen. Beautiful illustrations compliment the narrative. 3 children go on a fantastical adventure which helps them to see their home in a new magic light. Explains nature is everywhere, even near the tower block & highlights the beauty of community & helping each other. The book encourages us to see the magic of where you already are. Would be good to read aloud & pour over the illustrations.
