Coming to England: An Inspiring True Story Celebrating the Windrush Generation

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Removing himself from the narrative as much as possible, Matthews has assembled a book that aims to replicate an oral storytelling tradition. The warmth and strength she gained from her family are strongly evoked, as are her feelings of bewilderment at the ignorance and racism they encountered. We're not quite there yet, but have made significant progress compared to when I said to my Play School producers in the early 1980s, 'Why can't we have illustrations with Black, Asian and Chinese characters on the screen?

Coming to England by Floella Benjamin, Diane Ewen - Waterstones

When she finished school she worked in a bank before becoming a singer, dancer, and then one of the most recognisable faces on television. When you first wrote Coming to England did you think of writing a picture book, as this was the age of children to whom you devoted the early part of your career? Another reason to read these books, which fill out the story of those who came to Britain in the first wave, and those who came after.We understand that not everyone can donate right now, but if you can afford to contribute, we promise it will be put to good use. Coming to England by Floella Benjamin is a biographical story of the TV presenter's arrival in the UK in the 1960s. I think anyone who has read Coming to England gets the picture and gets the idea about what I'm talking about, but anyone who hasn't lived through the specific experience at the particular time needs some help on details, for example the kind of hats and suitcases people had at that time, or the setting of Southampton Docks in the 1950s. I love the illustrator’s vibrant colours in the book when Floella’s talking about Trinidad and the way the colours change in England. Brinkhurst-Cuff has brought together the life stories of 22 people of Caribbean, heritage, covering seven decades of experiences.

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Gentleman was the journalist who first exposed the scandal and has rightly won awards for her reporting. Floella’s illustrator, Diane Ewen, shades the differences between Trinidad and London, showing Floella’s inner life and making things visual for her readers. I had to go through bad times, but I feel my life is a happy ending so I needed to give the book a happy ending. My debut novel This Lovely City begins in 1950, two years after Jamaican Lawrie Matthews has arrived on the Empire Windrush.Transport Secretary Grant Shapps announced that double-vaccinated passengers arriving from non red-list countries will no longer have to take day 2 PCR tests from a date later in October. So a black child should see themselves in a book in a positive way: as an angel, as a superhero, as the boss.

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They've all seen the Queen, and we had to find an element of how the story can come good, to give people hope. I was intrigued by the differences, including the tropical climate, in Trinidad – the opposite to cold England. Bernard’s poetry collection was written after investigating the New Cross Fire records during their residency at the George Padmore Institute, a centre dedicated to radical black history in Britain. Floella's dad was a musician who played the saxophone in a jazz band and when Floella was a teenager she started singing in the band, which she loved. Is this picture book version the kind of book you dreamt about reading when you were on Play School?From Una Marson, who arrived in Britain from Jamaica in 1932 and became an influential broadcaster at the BBC, to British-born women such as Shirley Bassey and Amanda Ira Aldridge, this is a wonderful exploration of black women’s lives in mid-20th century Britain.