Footballer Marcus Rashford’s debut children’s book will be given to 50,000 children this summer as part of an initiative by his book club....
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Footballer Marcus Rashford’s debut children’s book will be given to 50,000 children this summer as part of an initiative by his book club.
Rashford’s book, The Breakfast Club Adventures: The Beast Beyond the Fence, is co-authored by Alex Falase-Koya and illustrated by Marta Kissi.
Rashford said the book club was designed to “get the right books in the hands of children who have very limited access to them” and offer “an escape from environments that can be quite challenging and to find the joy in reading”.
The Breakfast Club Adventures is about 12-year-old Marcus, who gets a mysterious note inviting him to join the Breakfast Club Investigators after he kicks his favourite football over the school fence, believing it to be lost forever. But Marcus is soon pulled into an exciting adventure with new friends Stacey, Lise and Asim to solve the mystery of what lies beyond the fence, and get his football back.
The book is inspired by Rashford’s own adventures growing up.
An adorable one-month-old baby goat in Karachi, Pakistan is set to become a world record holder after he was born with unusually long ears already measuring 53cm (1.72 feet) and growing.
The goat’s name comes from Disney’s animated movie ‘The Lion King’. “I named the baby goat Simba because its light brown colour and velvety skin reminded me of Simba, the lion cub from the movie,” said its owner Mohammad Hassan Narejo.
Simba is a local Lehri breed that has larger earlobes than a common goat, although not this long. Narenjo says he is not interested in selling the goat currently. He hopes that Simba would soon be a world record holder as her earlobes are already half a meter long. He plans to register it with the name of Simba Pakistani.
Supporters of Just Stop Oil glued themselves to a significant artwork in a major UK gallery. Previously, JSO targeted a Scottish art gallery and stormed British Grand Prix.
Two young supporters of the campaign stepped over a rope barrier keeping the public at the National Gallery in London a safe distance from The Hay Wain, by John Constable. They covered the 1821 oil painting with a dystopian reimagining of its bucolic scene, before supergluing themselves to its ornate gilt frame, prompting staff to evacuate the room of the assembled art lovers, tourists and schoolchildren.
Hannah Hunt, 23, from Brighton, who was sat beneath the painting wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the slogan “Just stop oil”, said: “I’m here because our government plans to license 40 new UK oil and gas projects in the next few years.
Eben Lazarus, 22, also from Brighton, said the reimagined version of the painting “illustrates the impact of our addiction to fossil fuels on our countryside”.
Painted in 1821, the Hay Wain shows a hay wagon travelling across fields in the Suffolk countryside. It is one of the most popular paintings in the National Gallery. In Just Stop Oil’s “apocalyptic vision of the future”, the river is replaced by a road, smoke pours from factories on the horizon and the famous Hay Wain cart is laden with an old washing machine.
Earlier this year, 15 climate activists also glued themselves to the asphalt of motorways in Germany, causing rush hour traffic jams, demanding a law against food waste and cuts in greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture.
