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The Day We Met The Queen: World Book Day 2020

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I had to actually get her to turn right around 180 degrees to look at these children with the bowls and I remember thinking ‘you can’t touch her, so how do I get her to turn around?’ Well she obliged, I can’t remember how I did that,” Ms Mihail said. Just her warmth and her ability to be able to relate to you; you really felt that you were the only person that she was interested in talking to,” Ms English said. The 47-year-old was tasked with presenting a portfolio of work to the monarch at the end of his stay that would “tell the story of the castle”, which led him to choose the Queen’s horses and stables as a muse.

Heroes Like Us” by Onjali Q. Raúf was such a joy to read! This two-novella collection caught my attention since it focuses on modern day issues for children who discover what it means to become a true hero. My one small criticism was regarding the first story “The Day We Met the Queen.” The author definitely expected the reader to have read the prior book that included these same characters since it was referenced often. I, however, had not read that book and was lost on what was being referenced and had to draw my own conclusions.

I very much felt that the stables and the mews where they keep all the horses was the heartbeat of the place and through the roles of the horses you got a very interesting perspective of both public life and private life for the Queen.” I just basically got a licence to sort of roam around Windsor Castle and produce a body of work telling the story of the castle,” he said. I’d done pictures of ponies, racehorses, carriage ponies, the Duke of Edinburgh’s ponies, you know, all sorts, and she knew about the breeding and the lineage and the names and everything about each and every horse. I love getting some closure on the story, while simultaneously showing that refugee treatment and rights is not a thing yet resolved. The idea of the Queen being at the center of the book definitely adds to the coincidental timeliness of it all, but that she is easy going and relatable to the children is still the takeaway whether you were a fan of the real Queen or not. I love the voice of the protagonist and the relatability that her concerns are with the target audience. I particularly enjoy the critique about the media and the clarity in which the children understand the flaws and limitations of what they are told in the news both on the school level and on a global stage. There isn't anything Islamic in the text, Ahment is Muslim, as is the author.

And that’s when she had a sense of humour and said, with a twinkle in her eye, ‘one does worry about the weather when one invites 8,000 people to your garden for tea’. Thank you to NetGalley, Random House Children's, and Delacorte Press for the opportunity to read an advanced reader's copy of this book for an honest review. (Publish Date: November 15, 2022) books in 1, what's better than that?! Thank you, Net Galley, Random House Kids, and Delacorte Press, for the advanced copy! (All opinions are my own.) One thing is for someone has to put a stop to the robberies. And Nelson and his friends plan to do just that, with a daring supermarket stake-out that's sure to catch the Food Bank Theives—if they don't get found out first!It was her sense of humour that got me,” Ms English said, adding: “I thought it would be really inclement weather for the garden party and I said ‘this is such a beautiful day today, I bet you’re glad that the weather is so great today’. In 2014, British fine artist Jeremy Houghton spent six months living in Windsor Castle acting as the Queen’s resident artist. Included in her responsibilities was to present the Queen with a gift made by the schoolchildren: dog bowls for her nine Corgis hand painted with their names. Alison Mihail, a retired teacher and Prince’s Trust volunteer, was asked to give the Queen a tour of a schools event in Berkshire during the Golden Jubilee celebrations in 2002.

This charming story shows what happens to Alexa and Ahmet and the whole crew as they prepare to met the Queen for tea. The group of friends is about to show the entire school their invitations and share the two questions each that they plan to ask the monarch, the list was 52 questions, but because the Queen is nearly 100 years old, they have been advised to shorten the list. On the day of the assembly news crews are present and Brenden-the-Bully is acting a little strange, as Ahmet starts talking the auditorium erupts with stink bombs and everyone leaves running. The kids think it is just the bully striking again, but the gossip at the school and reports on the news imply it might be more than that, and the kids might not make it to the Queen's tea after all.Onjali Q. Raúf does a spectacular job of showing young readers that heroes don't need superpowers or super strength. Heroes are heroes because of what they stand for and why they choose to be brave and courageous. Both of these books, The Day We Met the Queen and The Great Food Bank Heist, were endearing, sweet, a touch sad with the doses of reality, and funny. The second story “The Great Food Bank Heist” nearly had me tears at multiple moments. I’m a mom and reading about a small family having to play games to go without food when money was tight was absolutely heartbreaking for me. Reading about young children complaining of hunger pains and then feeling ashamed to take free food at school was devastating. I felt just as stunned and angry as Nelson did when he found out there was a thief stealing food from the food bank. Who would stoop to doing something that horrifically awful? After reading this story, I felt strongly compelled to donate more regularly to my local food bank. The Queen inspected all the bowls when the children presented them and exclaimed “he’s the noisy one” to one of the nine names painted on the sides.

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