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In your book You Are a Champion , there’s a chapter called Never Stop Learning. Can you tell us three things, big or small, that you have learn ed this year? ANTHONY HOROWITZ: Well, Albie? , when I was at school, I was no good at anything. I got the worst reports anyone could get. But then I discovered two things. One, the library. I loved reading. And two, I loved telling stories. And that was where I knew at the age of ten I was going to do for the rest of my life. 'Cause it was the only thing I really loved. MARTA: A bit of a half a broccoli, indeed. And then we do the same on the other side, keeping in mind we don't wanna go over the ear too much.

Marcus Rashford's fiction books

LAURA: Hi, Rhys. Yeah, I'm looking after Book Club for you, don't worry. It's in safe hands. Ooh, sorry Rhys, a seagull's just flown in and won't, won't leave me alone. Oh, I think it's got something to tell me. What's that, seagull? Sometimes we didn't even have a loaf of bread in the house," she says. "But I wouldn't tell somebody I was struggling - it was embarrassing."

The Breakfast Club Investigators haven't managed to solve a mystery in months and Marcus is worried that the group is going to break up! So when the captain of the school basketball team comes to ask for their help Marcus knows this might just be the Investigator's last chance to prove themselves. Share other illustrated stories with the children and see if any of the illustrations could inspire them to draw in a similar fashion. Ask them to identify what techniques and materials they think have been used. ALEX: Um, I'd be Fantastic Mr Fox from "Fantastic Mr Fox". Um, I, I, whenever I read that book, it was so fun to imagine eating and drinking all of those cool foods. And, um, and just being, I think it would be cool to be something a little bit different from what I am now, so. MARTA: I know, it's actually been recently translated into English. Uh, it's been translated in many languages before, but not English. ANd I think recently has, so. Inspired by Marcus’s own experiences growing up, The Breakfast Club Adventures: The Beast Beyond the Fence is the first fiction book by England International footballer, child-poverty campaigner and bestselling author Marcus Rashford MBE.LAURA: Thanks, Anthony. Thank you so much for joining us on Book Club today. It's been an absolute pleasure. MARTA: Oh my goodness. Er, they add massively, I think. 'Cause obviously the text is one thing but then the illustrations just basically expand, I think, the story. So, er, you illustrate what is in a story but also maybe what isn't, to a degree. So maybe, you know, some things aren't quite said in a text but you can add them, um, expand, basically. A teacher’s guide with reading National Curriculum links, discussion questions, and follow-up reader-response activity ideas. We have partnered with the publisher Macmillan Children’s Books to create exclusive materials to accompany The Breakfast Club Adventures: The Ghoul in the School. MARTA: Um, I think a few things to think about are, um, quite a simple shape for the face. A broccoli hair, so to speak. Um, a simple six for the ear.

The Marcus Rashford Book Club is a reader-recommends programme created by England International footballer and child food poverty campaigner Marcus Rashford MBE and Macmillan Children’s Books, to encourage and nurture a love of reading in children.ALEX: Um, yeah, that was a very, it was actually a very scary book for me as a kid, growing up. But, um, also something that was just really captured my imagination. I really liked thinking about oh, what if the witch is just around the corner? I'm proud to have Pooja join us too. She writes in a way that is engaging, escapist and authentic. Pooja is super talented and I'm a big fan, and I'm sure that the recipientsof her book A Dinosaur Ate My Sister will soon be fans of hers too.’ The Breakfast Club Adventures: The Beast Beyond The Fence” was co-written by Marcus Rashford MBE and Alex Falasse-Koya and illustrated by Marta Kissi. The first interview could be used to inspire children to work together on a collaborative piece of writing in groups of three, with different roles for each child: illustrator and co-writers. Together with Sam Copeland and Jenny Pearson, the above authors/illustrators could be used as an example to discuss teamwork and identify what factors are important when working in a team. Marcus Rashford MBE is an England International footballer and child food poverty campaigner from South Manchester, UK.

Anthony Horowitz, CBE explains his love of storytelling and how, as a child, Tintin was his favourite character. This could be used as a starting point to explore comic strip books such as Tintin, looking at the differences between them and novels. The children could use the comic strips as an inspiration to draw and write their own.LAURA: Of course, the eyebrows. They give expression. Oh, and I see what you've done there. You've done it like Marcus' eyebrow. MARTA: And then we're gonna go – just not to get lost in it a bit too much, we go a little bit on one side...a little bit on the other. LAURA: This seagull keeps, uh, popping in and interrupting me. What's it-, what, what do you want, seagull? Oh, the seagull's letting me know it's time for a quiz, Anthony. So I've got some quiz questions for you here. Oh, but hang on, it says here, if Antony gets all the answers wrong, I get pooed on by the seagull.