You can be a champion in a competition and come out number one, but you can also still be a champion in the things you enjoy even if you don’t win prizes for them. In You Are A Champion, the nation’s favourite footballer gives you the tools you need to reach your full potential, showing you how to be the very BEST version of yourself you can be. When you start out, your personality and the world around you gives you different pieces to work with, and it's up to you how you want to make a picture with it. Written with journalist Carl Anka, You Are a Champion is packed full of stories from Marcus’s own life, plus brilliant advice and top-tips from performance psychologist Katie Warriner. It shows kids how to:- Be comfortable with who you are – you can’t be a champion until you’re happy being you!

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It poses thought-provoking questions to develop readers' critical thinking skills, and will give them the confidence to question conventions and stereotypes. As a professional athlete, people often talk about what you do in the Big Moments, whether you won or lost the game and what you did to help, or not help, your team. You Are A Championwill empower young people aged 10+to develop positive thinking, build mental resilience,learn how to navigate adversity and, ultimately,to achieve their full potential.Marcus has committed himself to combating child poverty in the UK and his book You Are a Champion is an inspiring guide for children about reaching their full potential. There were loads of newspaper articles about the England players and the manager, and people even joked that it would be a national holiday the day after if England won. Marcus Rashford is famous worldwide for his skills both on-and-off the pitch – but before he was a Manchester United and England footballer, and long before he started his inspiring campaign to end child food poverty, he was just an average kid from Wythenshawe, South Manchester.

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Marcus speaks about believing in yourself and learning to understand your strengths and embracing them. Alongside his non-fiction, Marcus is also the author of the bestselling The Breakfast Club Adventures series, fiction books that aim to inspire a love of reading in children and show them that adventure can be found anywhere. In You Are A Champion: Unlock Your Potential, Find Your Voice and Be the BEST You Can Be, Marcus Rashford MBE draws on stories from his own life to show you that success is all about the mindset. Coming from a humble background himself, Rashford uses his platform to help children in another way, too.Young adult readers are quick to latch on to gender and this book is terribly male in its language and approach to life. Full of practical advice and engaging illustrations and infographics, this is the empowering and life changing first children's book from Marcus Rashford MBE, written in collaboration with journalist Carl Anka and performance psychologist Katie Warriner. Marcus has committed himself to combating child poverty in the UK and his books You Are a Champion, You Can Do It and Heroes are inspiring guides for children about reaching their full potential.

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You might decide you want to be a champion for something you believe in, and I’d like to show you how to do that.Marcus successfully lobbied the British Government to u-turn policy around the free food voucher program ? The writing is pitched at the perfect level for 9-11 year olds and I read this with my 8 and a half year old Nico who found it easy to follow and has boosted his confidence not only in his reading but also in himself and his own abilities. It interested me because I am a little bit like Marcus himself and knowing that he could do it makes me feel like I can do it.

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Whilst he is only 23, he has inspired the world with his work to provide support for those who were already struggling before the global pandemic that is Covid-19. The book is written with the help of journalist Carl Anka and a performance psychologist, Katie Warriner. I highly doubt that you would be one reading this in highschool, when you have a reading average surpassing this by a large margin. I once had a dream like Marcus to be a footballer, but as I got older I discovered I liked writing; eventually I found a way to put my two skills together to become a football journalist.Marcus Rashford deserves 5 stars because not only is he a footballer and activist, but now he's found yet another way to pay it forward by writing a book. Currently a reporter for sports media group The Athletic, covering Manchester United, he is the host of the Talk of the Devils podcast and is scared of talking on the phone.