Flower Block
Published on 6. June 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
32 pages
978-0-241-61137-1 (ISBN)
Description
Winner of the 2025 Children's Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing
Winner of Derby Book Festival's - Derby Children's Picture Book Award 2025
Shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize 2025
Illustrator Hoang Giang longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Illustration 2025
When Jeremiah plants a packet of sunflower seeds, the very last thing he expects is for the vines and leaves to grow overnight and burst through the ceiling of his apartment!
As Jeremiah and his brother chase the magical plant up through the floors of their tower block home, they discover an array of curious neighbours who join in the adventure. But what could be waiting for them at the top of the building? And will Jeremiah find his voice to help the neighbours discover the true magic hidden within these sunflower seeds?
A glorious celebration of the power of nature to bring communities together, from talented debut author Lanisha Butterfield and illustrator Hoang Giang.
"An utterly stunning debut picture book about community, nature and the things that bring us together. Warmly written and gorgeously illustrated, Lanisha and Hoang are a perfectly synced storytelling duo." - Dapo Adeola, illustrator of LOOK UP!
Selected for Book Trust's Great Book Guide 2024-2025
Shortlisted for the Teach Early Years Awards 2024
Winner of Derby Book Festival's - Derby Children's Picture Book Award 2025
Shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize 2025
Illustrator Hoang Giang longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Illustration 2025
When Jeremiah plants a packet of sunflower seeds, the very last thing he expects is for the vines and leaves to grow overnight and burst through the ceiling of his apartment!
As Jeremiah and his brother chase the magical plant up through the floors of their tower block home, they discover an array of curious neighbours who join in the adventure. But what could be waiting for them at the top of the building? And will Jeremiah find his voice to help the neighbours discover the true magic hidden within these sunflower seeds?
A glorious celebration of the power of nature to bring communities together, from talented debut author Lanisha Butterfield and illustrator Hoang Giang.
"An utterly stunning debut picture book about community, nature and the things that bring us together. Warmly written and gorgeously illustrated, Lanisha and Hoang are a perfectly synced storytelling duo." - Dapo Adeola, illustrator of LOOK UP!
Selected for Book Trust's Great Book Guide 2024-2025
Shortlisted for the Teach Early Years Awards 2024
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Penguin Random House Children's UK
Target group
Children/juvenile
Interest Age: From 3 to 6 years
Product notice
Picture book
Dimensions
Height: 296 mm
Width: 256 mm
Thickness: 6 mm
Weight
243 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-241-61137-1 (9780241611371)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
E-Book
06/2024
Puffin
€7.99
Available for download
Persons
Lanisha is a lifelong book junkie, whose quiet ambition of becoming an author - long-held and nurtured with lunchtime trips to the local bookshop - were realised during lockdown, with a serendipitous, snap decision to join an online Penguin Children's Book Workshop.
A woman of Black mixed race heritage, born and raised on a council estate in Oxford, to a hardworking single mother, she is very proud of her working class roots and hopes to challenge misconceptions of council estate life and remind readers - that, no matter where they are from, or what their family might look like, they are just as worthy of fairy-tale and magic, as anyone else. Her debut children's picture book, Flower Block, publishes in 2024.
Hoang Giang was born in Dalat, a small highland city in Vietnam, before moving to Ho Chi Minh City to work as an illustrator. She always has fun while working and likes to make her characters as lively as possible - because the story belongs to the characters, themselves.
A woman of Black mixed race heritage, born and raised on a council estate in Oxford, to a hardworking single mother, she is very proud of her working class roots and hopes to challenge misconceptions of council estate life and remind readers - that, no matter where they are from, or what their family might look like, they are just as worthy of fairy-tale and magic, as anyone else. Her debut children's picture book, Flower Block, publishes in 2024.
Hoang Giang was born in Dalat, a small highland city in Vietnam, before moving to Ho Chi Minh City to work as an illustrator. She always has fun while working and likes to make her characters as lively as possible - because the story belongs to the characters, themselves.