Along Came a Different

Reds love being red. Yellows love being yellow. And Blues love being blue. The problem is that they just don’t like each other. But one day, along comes a different colour who likes Reds, Yellows and Blues, and suddenly everything starts to change. Maybe being different doesn’t mean you can’t be friends …

A very special picture book that supports the adage that there is more that unites us than divides us. Along Came a Different just goes to show how much better we can all be when we come together to find common ground as friends. Every bookshelf should have a copy.

Published by Bloomsbury Publishing

About the author:

Tom McLaughlin has been an author for over 10 years now. He writes and illustrates picture books and chapter books for Key Stages 1 and 2. Tom has been nominated for the Greenaway Medal twice and his debut chapter book also received nomination for the Branford Boase Award. The Accidental series has sold over 110,000 copies in the UK alone and been translated into 12 different languages. The Accidental Prime Minister was shortlisted on the Shrewsbury Bookfest Book Award 2016. As well as working in children’s books, Tom also worked as political cartoonist, animator, script writer and written several columns for The Guardian.

Tom is leading creative writing workshops in primary schools across Shropshire for the Shrewsbury Bookfest Schools’ Week 2021 project.