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What Happened to You?

What Happened to You?

by James Catchpole and Karen George
Hardback
Publication Date: 18/05/2021

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Imagine you were asked the same question again and again throughout your life . . .
Imagine if it was a question that didn't bring about the happiest of memories . . .

This is the experience of one-legged Joe, a child who just wants to have fun in the playground . . . Constantly seen first for his disability, Joe is fed up of only ever being asked about his leg. All he wants to do is play Pirates.

But as usual, one after the other, all the children ask him the same question they always ask, "What happened to you?"

Understandably Joe gets increasingly cross!

Until finally the penny drops and the children realise that it's a question Joe just doesn't want to answer . . . and that Joe is playing a rather good game . . . one that they can join in with if they can stop fixating on his missing leg . . .

Because children are children, after all.

ISBN:
9780571358304
9780571358304
Category:
Personal & social issues: disability & special needs (Children's / Teenage)
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
18-05-2021
Language:
English
Publisher:
Faber & Faber, Limited
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Dimensions (mm):
260.1x260.1x9.91mm
Weight:
0.43kg
James Catchpole

James and Lucy Catchpole run The Catchpole Agency from their home in Oxford. Their popular Instagram, @thecatchpoles,discusses disability representation in literature.

James is an amputee like Joe. His debut picture book, What Happenedto You?, received impressive critical acclaim and awards. This is the first book Lucy and James have written together.

Karen George

Karen George has always loved drawing and painting and as a child it was her absolute favourite thing to do. A graduate of The Royal College of Art, Karen used to paint sets for films but turned her creative attentions to picture book illustration after becoming mum to her two young sons. In 2009 Karen won the inaugural Waterstones' Picture This competition.

She then illustrated Julia Donaldson's stories, Freddie and the Fairy and Wake up Do, Lydia Lou! She now writes her own stories as well as illustrating, and lives in Bristol with her family and Dr Calamari the cat.

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