On Friday 26th November, Bluecoat were delighted to welcome award-winning author and illustrators, Emily and Alice Haworth-Booth, two sisters who were sharing their book 'Protest'. The book is an inspiring and timely illustrated history of peaceful protests from around the world – from 1170 BCE to the present day. Alice is a graphic designer and writer. She has spent over a decade creating bold and colourful visuals for campaigns and activist groups and has won awards for her short stories. Emily is an award-winning author, illustrator and educator who teaches at the Royal Drawing School in London, England.
During the Chapter 3 assembly they told one of the stories from the book about the German peasants' revolt in 1524.
Here is what some of the children had to say:
Poppy: "The assembly was linking to our BLP 'Working well together' because all of the peasants worked together to make things fairer and marched to make a change. I loved how they took the time to make a story about people making change in the world and encourage people to try and make a difference."
Tom: "I liked that they said that we have rights and people shouldn't be able to take them away. People can come together to protect their rights."
Naomi: "The pictures in the book were simple and by looking at one of the pictures you could see how the story was being set out. The story they read was great because the Counts and Countesses were really boastful, thinking that they were top dog. They were the top dogs but the peasants were able to take action and say, ''Actually, we don't like this!'' which was sensible but brave because they weren't getting paid then so it was a risk!"
Lewis: "The book includes stories from all around the world like Egypt. The one they read to us was set in Germany so the assembly links to Being Part of a Global Community because everywhere can protest and everywhere should have the same rights even if you're a peasant or a Count. Anyone!"
Ruby: "Emily and Alice asked us if we could think of any other protests in the world right now, like the climate protests and things. That's making links with things all around the world."
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