The Book of Legends: A hilarious and fast-paced quest adventure from bestselling comedian Lenny Henry

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He devised The Boy With Wings as a superhero story “because when I was young, there weren’t any who looked like me”.

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They’re sat in their pants, eating Hobnobs and looking at their computers, slagging off anything different. In his drive for greater inclusivity, the author was inspired to learn sign language himself and to feature a deaf character in the form of Bran. Perfect for fans of fast-paced adventures, The Book of Legends, from comedian Lenny Henry is a laugh-out-loud magical story for 8-12 year olds, illustrated throughout by the incredibly talented Keenon Ferrell. I promise you that I will keep my blog and the information here up to date and you will know everything that I'm doing.The last 70 or so pages are compelling because they detail Henry’s mounting obsession with public recognition, meanwhile tracking his neglect of obligations at home.

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As for his “interesting” experience as part of The Black and White Minstrel Show, Henry wrote: “I was miserable the entire period. This hilarious chapter book, with a fast-paced plot and dynamic black-and-white illustrations, is the first in a fabulously funny series that is perfect for junior readers. In his recent memoir, Rising to the Surface, he goes further, admitting the experience left him with “everlasting shame, smothered in a duvet of depression”.

In fact, Henry was born to Winifred and another man, Albert Green, whom she’d met in the Midlands in the 1950s, before Winston travelled over to join her from Jamaica. Henry is telling a funny story about the difference between watching the Marvel movie Black Panther in a London cinema full of delighted black teenagers, and the same movie again, with his daughter in a rural cinema in Plymouth.

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But when their mum's treasured storybook turns out to be a portal to another world full of mythical legends, everything changes. Lenny is a strong advocate for diversity, is the author of The Boy With Wings, and has co-written the book Access All Areas: The Diversity Manifesto for TV and Beyond. This guy, who once read Tolkien’s Middle-earth books and wondered where all the non-white characters were, now finds himself having to answer for the fact that the characters in a 2022 adaptation aren’t all white.Henry studied for an MA at Royal Holloway, University of London in screenwriting for television and film, where he received a distinction and where he is now studying for a PhD on the role of black people in the media. But when mum goes missing and her stories turn out to be a portal to another world, they're going to have a huge, magical adventure on their hands. The Book of Legends, a quest novel in the vein of Tolkien or CS Lewis, is his second children’s book. The children find themselves left with eccentric local bookseller Madge as a guardian and their mother’s book of fantastical tales for comfort, unsure what to do next.