Our Building [Hardcover]

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE DIVERSE BOOK AWARDS 2023*

From award-winning children’s poet Joseph Coelho comes this enchanting story of three kids looking for adventure in their building.

Drawn from Coelho’s own experience growing up in a high-rise, this is acelebration and reclaimingof them as places full of power and magic.

A power that resides
in the smiles of our neighbors.
A magic that seeps out
when we swap our home-baked flavors.

A deeply personal story written by the award-winning poet Joseph Coelho, drawn fromhis own experience growing up in a high-rise and looking for adventure.

Three children living in the building travel to a strange, magical world inside a tree and meet an old man with supernatural powers… only to realize thatthe magic they’d been looking for had been in the building 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 suburbs, when the reality is that nature is everywhere, and everyone should have access to it.

Multi award-winning authorJoseph Coelhois one of the UK’s most prestigious writers for children: he won the internationally renowned Carnegie Medal for Writing withThe Boy Lost in the Mazeand was selected to be the Waterstones Children’s Laureate 2022–2024. As part of that laureateship he completed a library marathon, joining over 213 libraries. He writes for children of all ages: his collectionTen-Word Tiny Taleswon acclaim from theWall Street Journal,The Horn Book, the Bulletin Center for Children’s Books,Kirkus Reviews