One rainy Sunday, Winston is exploring Grandpa Gee's shed when he makes an amazing discovery: a pair of old, dimpled steel pans! Grandpa is more than ready to dust off his old pansticks and teach Winston how to play.
It's not easy, and some days Winston feels ready to give up. But the best things in life take practice, and with a lot of patience and his grandpa's guidance, Winston embarks on a musical journey that leads all the way to a spectacular neighbourhood concert!
From bestselling, award-winning Diane Ewen, Winston and the Steel Pans is perfect for bedtime reading, classroom storytelling, and young musicians!
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Diane Ewen was born in Walsall, in the West Midlands. She has always loved art, and graduated from the University of Wolverhampton with a B.A. Honours Degree in Illustration. Diane likes to create illustrations that are hand-drawn in pencil, which she paints in watercolour and acrylics before embellishing them using Photoshop, but she also enjoys working directly on the computer screen to create her characters and designs. Diane loves the fact that the artwork is often the first thing that draws children into a book, and is inspired by the use of vibrant colour.
She is the illustrator of the critically acclaimed picture book Coming to England, written by Floella Benjamin, as well as writing and illustrating Norrie and Louella's adventures in The Great Unicorn Rescue and The Great Unicorn Escape. Diane has won both the Jericho Prize and the Queen's Knickers Award, along with Children's Illustrated Book of the Year 2023 for the collaborative work Hey You! by Dapo Adeola.