CILIP Honorary Fellow Joseph Coelho, award-winning poet, playwright and author, is the current Waterstones Children's Laureate.

He recently completed an epic marathon of library services around the UK which saw him give countless media interviews promoting the importance of school and public libraries.

Joseph was awarded Honorary Fellowship of CILIP 2023 in recognition of his services to libraries and reading.

In this video he speaks about the heroic work of librarians and his libraries marathon.