The Day We Met The Queen: World Book Day 2020

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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’. 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. 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.”

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.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. In 2014, British fine artist Jeremy Houghton spent six months living in Windsor Castle acting as the Queen’s resident artist. 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’.

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.

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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. 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. 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. 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. 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.