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1st May 2025
Joyeux anniversaire Talah. 🖤🤍
30th April 2025
Sir Lenny Henry’s BBC Breakfast interview at the launch event of Tyrone’s Cool Crown
Afrori Books, Brighton
October 2024
Polka Theatre has announced new shows coming to Polka in 2025. Polka's major summer show in 2025 will be the world premiere of The Boy With Wings, a co-production with Birmingham Rep, based on the best-selling Macmillan children's book by Sir Lenny Henry, and adapted by writer Arvind Ethan David and directed by the Bush Theatre's Associate Artistic Director, Daniel Bailey. The production is recommended for 7 – 12 years and runs in the Main Theatre from Saturday 21 June – Saturday 16 August, before transferring to Birmingham Rep from Thursday 21 - Saturday 30 August.
The Boy With Wings, Polka Theatre
Tyrone’s Cool Crown
by Sir Lenny Henry,
illustrated by Salomey Doku
Publisher: Macmillan Children’s Books
Published August 2024
Edinburgh University Press, Women in Publishing 1900-2020
Published February 2024
Natalie is one of eight contemporary women working in Publishing today interviewed for the Edinburgh Companion to Women in Publishing 1900-2020.
New and Updated Book & Publishing Industry’s
Professional Values
Released November 2023
Amir Khan discusses his autobiography, Fight for your Life
Published September 2023
Publisher: Century, Penguin Random House
Welsh language editions of The Boy With Wings and You Can Do Anything Tyrone!
Published April and October 2023
Publisher: Rily Publications
Launch of You Can Do Anything Tyrone! at Dudley Library, Dudley, Midlands
Published July 2023
Publisher: Macmillan Children’s Books
The Boy With Wings: Attack of the Rampaging Robot by Sir Lenny Henry, illustrated by Keenon Ferrell
World Book Day February 2023
Publisher: Macmillan Children’s Books
Every schoolchild in Wales should be given a free book in their first year of school, according to a literary agent. Natalie Jerome, who is originally from Newport, said each child should receive a book to help them understand the power of reading.
Ms Jerome, whose career as a literary agent has seen her work with the likes of One Direction and Lenny Henry, said: "Books have completely changed my life."
She added books can "take you to another world" but also equip children with "so many life skills".
A Welsh government spokesperson said: "Helping people, especially children, to form the lifelong habit of reading, is central to the work of the Books Council of Wales and is supported by the Welsh government through Creative Wales.
"Recent campaigns have included Iechyd Da, a bilingual book gifting initiative that delivered health and wellbeing books to all primary schools in Wales.
"Other more targeted activities in Merthyr Tydfil, Gwynedd and Ceredigion, run in collaboration with local authorities and other partners, delivered almost 9,000 books and activity packs to children and families during the pandemic."