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

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Do you know how many days it took in 1960 to travel to grey, dark England from vibrant, warm Trinidad? This book told me how important it is never to give up and always believe in yourself. Floella overcame many problems. She travelled on a floating house to England where people were unfriendly at school. After a while though, she made lots of friends and was happy. The author has many problems. She moves from colourful Trinidad to a dull England to join her Marmie and Dardie who went to London for work. She feels unwelcome, she doesn’t know what an escalator or a telephone is for. She experiences discrimination. Her ambition is to meet the Queen. She works hard to settle in her new home. One day, she achieves her dream! Now she works to help other people at the House of Lords. As you open the book, all of the vibrant colours shine at you. The colour drew me in to a different life.

KS1 Black British History: Floella Benjamin - BBC Teach

This book is great fun to read. There are so many lovely colours in the pictures. Everyone will enjoy it! What is the book about? A little girl from Trinidad moves to England to be with her family in London. A little girl called Floella. They've all seen the Queen, and we had to find an element of how the story can come good, to give people hope. So it was lovely to have the story of me dreaming about meeting the Queen as a young girl, and then eventually meeting her at the end with my Mum and Dad looking on so proudly. 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. Those were the stepping stones I used to get through the book, and leave everything else aside.

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Which of the characters did you find most interesting and why?Jacob liked Dardie the best because “he could play the saxophone.” This book is about her life as a little girl who came to England. She always had a lot of ambition. In the book she says, “I dreamt of meeting the Queen.” She came from a very positive family; as they say in the book, “We have been invited to go to England!” They were among many people who went to work in England. Floella’s illustrator, Diane Ewen, shades the differences between Trinidad and London, showing Floella’s inner life and making things visual for her readers. There are lots of new things for everyone to learn about: Trinidad, the House of Lords and the British Empire. As her dad wanted to be a Jazz musician, I learnt about the music side of things too! The book told me about the British Empire and about why people came to England from the other side of the world. I empathised with Floella’s worries about moving somewhere new with new people. It must have been hard too, to cope with the change of climate. London was cold and the people were cold as well. Being happy with her family again, helped her cope with the discrimination, she settled in and it felt like home.

Coming to England CBBC - Coming to England

I loved the colourful illustrations showing life in Trinidad and less colourful ones in England. I would recommend this book to everyone: 10 out of 10. Which of the characters (if any) you did not like. Why?The mean aunt. She did not let Floella and Sandra play. I learnt that the time zones changed as people sailed to England to find work. Floella took every opportunity, tried her best, worked hard and, as she became a politician in the House of Lords, she met the Queen!Is this picture book version the kind of book you dreamt about reading when you were on Play School? Who is the main character in the story? How would you describe them? Why do you like that character? What is the book about? A little girl from Trinidad moves to England to be with her family in London

Coming to England by Floella Benjamin - Pan Macmillan

Did you learn any new words or facts as a result of the story?I learnt that meeting new people is very hard but you always have to keep going and never give up. urn:lcp:comingtoengland0000benj:epub:aea6e85e-0fb4-461e-a052-ed5217efbb3f Foldoutcount 0 Identifier comingtoengland0000benj Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s2v3kkn3vbs Invoice 1652 Isbn 9781406315967 When Floella left school she went to work in a bank, but what she really wanted to do was show business - acting and singing in front of an audience, either on TV or in a theatre. Floella went on to appear in many different shows, and when she was 27 years old Floella became one of the presenters of a children's TV show called Play School . It's one of the most popular children's TV programmes ever! Which of the characters did you find most interesting and why? I found Floella most interesting because she wanted to be the queen. You look at it holistically. I had to think very carefully about what I wanted very young children to know and grasp. Some of them know about moving to a new place, so they can understand the concept of moving. Some of them know about parents leaving, even if it's for a couple of weeks, so they know the emotional feeling that gives you.

I like the artistic attention to detail, the bold colourful style with the Historical fashion and the big petticoat skirts. It is very visually engaging and I learnt about Colonialism and Windrush as well as Trinidadian life. Even though it did not hide from the depressing subject of Racism, I was cheered up by the optimistic ending and would like to read more by this author. I am probably older than the age this is aimed at, but I think it would appeal to all ages. In the wake of the overdue scandal, several books have offered up accounts of the Windrush generation. Matthews explores the stories of ordinary people who came to Britain from the Caribbean between 1948 and 1971. Removing himself from the narrative as much as possible, Matthews has assembled a book that aims to replicate an oral storytelling tradition. I loved reading these accounts, which felt fresh and honest. Floella Benjamin has rewritten her groundbreaking autobiography Coming to England, turning it into a picture book with beautiful illustrations by Diane Ewen. The illustrations and descriptions are really memorable. My recommendation would be for all infants and juniors. KS3 might enjoy it too!

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