Winner of the Yoto Carnegie Medal for Writing 2024
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Winner of the Yoto Carnegie Medal for Writing 2024
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A spellbinding novel told in poems, blending the ancient legend of the Minotaur with the quest of a modern-day teenage boy to find his biological father by the new UK Children's Laureate
In his new verse novel, Joseph Coelho brilliantly blends Greek myth with a 21st century quest. In Ancient Greece Theseus makes a dangerous and courageous journey to find his father, finally meeting the Minotaur in the Labyrinth. While Theo, a modern-day teenage boy, finds himself on a maze-like quest to find his own father. Each story tells of a boy becoming a man and discovering what true manhood really means, The path to self-discovery takes Theo through ‘those thin spaces where myth, magic and reality combine’. Doubts, difficulties and dangers must be faced as Theo discovers the man he will become.
Joesph Coelho winner of the 2024 Yoto Carnegie for Fiction for his brilliant novel The Boy Lost in the Maze.
Awards
Winner of Yoto Carnegie Medal for Writing 2024 2024 (UK) Winner of Extraordinary Book - International Literary Festival of Berlin 2023
Critic Reviews
Powerful, playful and poignant in equal parts, The Boy Lost in the Maze skilfully interweaves the myth of Theseus with the modern coming-of-age story of Theo. Every word is carefully wrought in these astonishing narrative poems which reward reading, re-reading and reflection. Jacke Hope
An all-consuming tale of the quests of two boys told in verse... thanks to Coelho's mesmerising way with words and bold imagination, the two worlds are bridged effortlessly... Coelho allows each boy's life to complement the other while reminding us that the answers to the stories' central question - what is a man? - remain the same, in myth and modernity. The Times - Children's Book of the Week
A gritty and innovative intertwining of Theseus and the Minotaur with a modern-day quest blends 20 chapters of dual narrative poetry with illustrator Kate Milner’s abstract forms and revitalised Greek motifs. Personal, accessible and memorable, Theo’s journey of self-discovery is highly relatable and will resonate. A landmark coming-of-age verse novel, The Boy Lost in the Maze is ideal to read and discuss with students in years 9-11. Highly recommended for KS4 libraries. Tom Tolkien, School Reading List - Fiction Book of the Month
About the Author
Joseph Coelho''s debut poetry collection Werewolf Club Rules won the CLPE CLiPPA Poetry Award 2015. As well as poetry and plays, Joseph also writes picture books and non-fiction books. All of his work has poetry and an element of performance at its heart making his festival and school sessions dynamic occasions. Joseph is a staunch ambassador for Britain's straitened public libraries. He lives in Kent. Joseph became the Waterstones Children's Laureate in 2022.
Kate Milner studied illustration at Central St Martin’s before completing an MA in Children’s Book Illustration at Anglia Ruskin University. Kate won the V&A Illustration Award 2016 and the Klaus Flugge Prize 2018 for My name is not Refugee. Her book It's a No-Money Day was shortlisted for the Greenaway Medal.
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