Keep Smiling
$17.99| ISBN-13: | 9781529095487 | Format: | Paperback |
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| Subject: | Kids | Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Published: | September 19th 2023 | Pages: | 32 |
Book Description
An inspiring, self-esteem-boosting picture book celebrating the power of a smile, created by Baroness Floella Benjamin, and illustrated by the award-winning Diane Ewen.
Vina's Mum has always told her that a smile is the best gift you can give someone. And as Vina loves smiling more than anything else, she gives the gift of her smile to anyone who needs it. But on her first visit to her new school, Vina's own smile gets a bit. . . lost. She can't find it under the slide, or on the climbing frame. Then, a smile appears, in the most unexpected place!
A book about kindness, sensitivity and the power of a smile, including an inspiring letter to the reader from Floella herself.
About the Author
Baroness Floella Benjamin, OBE, was born on the Caribbean island of Trinidad in 1949, and came to England in 1960 as part of the Windrush generation. She has enjoyed a successful career as a children's presenter, best known for the iconic BBC TV programmes Play School and Play Away, and has also worked as an actress, writer, producer, working peer and an active advocate for the welfare and education of children. Her broadcasting work has been recognized with a Special Lifetime Achievement BAFTA and an OBE. She published her childhood memoir Coming to England as a picture book, bringing the inspiring and uplifting story of her life to a whole new generation of readers.
Diane Ewen was born in the West Midlands. She has always loved art, and graduated from the University of Wolverhampton with a B.A. Honours Degree in Illustration. Diane likes to create illustrations that are hand-drawn in pencil, which she paints in watercolour and acrylics before embellishing them using Photoshop, but she also enjoys working directly on the computer screen to create her characters and designs. Diane has won numerous awards, including the Jericho Prize, the Queens Knickers Award, and the Children's Illustrated Book of the Year Award at the British Book Awards, for her collaboration on Hey You!