New Children’s Laureate wants to 'ensure every child sees themselves as a writer'

Performance poet, playwright and children’s author Joseph Coelho said he wants "to ensure that every child gets to see themselves as a writer" after being announced as the new Children’s Laureate. On being named the Children’s Laureate, he added: “I’m trying to connect with and heal my younger self – a self unable to imagine a future writing and publishing books." Edit includes GVs of Coelho with outgoing Laureate Cressida Cowell and previous Laureate Michael Rosen, as well as clips from Coelho's speech.