The Breakfast Club Adventures: The Beast Beyond the Fence

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Breakfast features a few times in your book – Weetabix as a kid; your nan a’s unbeatable corn porridge… What is your breakfast of champions today? A sign in Wythenshawe, where Rashford grew up, after the government’s U-turn on free school meals. Photograph: Molly Darlington/Reuters

In the book and in life you come across as somebody who faces each day full of positivity. What’s your morning routine – what things do you do to best set yourself up for the day ? LAURA: Yeah. OK, Alex, another one for you. Do you have any tips for writing setting descriptions? How do you set the scene? Together, they called for three policy recommendations by the National Food Strategy to be funded by the government as soon as possible: expanding free school meals to reach more children, expanding existing school holiday food and activities programmes and increasing the value of the Healthy Start vouchers - which help pregnant women, and parents with children under the age of four - to reach an additional 290,000 people. Mel Rashford brought up her children as practising Christians. I ask him if he is religious. “Yeah, definitely. My mum is very religious. It’s not that we practise it all the time, but sometimes the faith we have in God is shown by the people that we are. For me and my family, that’s definitely the case. If you could see our lives 15-20 years ago to where we are now, it’s impossible not to have faith in God and all he does for us.” ALEX: So the first thing I think about is what do I want the setting to do in- as part of the story? Um, how do I want this place to feel? Um, how do I want the audience to feel about it? And then when you can go from there, when you know what you want, um, you-, how you want the place to feel, then you- you go through your senses. Think about your smell, um, the things you can hear, the things you can see. And then just really go through there, and, um, and using that you can really craft a- a setting.I never knew football could be a job. I just loved the game and the feeling of togetherness it brought. That gave me the drive to succeed. In an incredible moment in the film, Rashford receives a personal phone call from Prime Minister Boris Johnson, setting out the changes his government would be making.

In July 2020, Marcus received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Manchester becoming the youngest person to receive the accolade in the history of the establishment. In October 2020, he was appointed MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours. In addition, he won a Special Recognition Award at Pride of Britain 2020, was a recipient of the City of Manchester Award, was the inaugural winner of the FIFA Foundation Award, recipient of a Special Award at BBC's Sports Personality of the Year, a recipient of the Football Writers' Association Tribute Award, and was listed on TIME Magazine's '100 Next' list, as well as Forbes 30 Under 30 list. I'm proud to have Pooja join us too. She writes in a way that is engaging, escapist and authentic. Pooja is super talented and I'm a big fan, and I'm sure that the recipientsof her book A Dinosaur Ate My Sister will soon be fans of hers too.’

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Marcus Rashford, 24, plays football for England and Manchester United and is the author of this year’s bestselling children’s nonfiction book, You Are a Champion, written with the journalist Carl Anka to inspire young people to reach their full potential. One of five siblings raised by a single mother on minimum wage in Manchester, Rashford has become one of Britain’s leading campaigners against child poverty. In June he launched the Marcus Rashford Book Club in conjunction with Magic Breakfast and Macmillan Children’s Books to encourage a lifelong love of reading and give free books to underprivileged children. Next year, Rashford will release his first children’s fiction book, The Breakfast Club Adventures, co-authored by Alex Falase-Koya. Magic Breakfast and Macmillan Children’s Books announce official partnership to launch the new Marcus Rashford Book Club with schools in disadvantaged areas of the UK LAURA: Yeah, that's good. Thank you. And finally, when you're writing, do you ever read the words out loud to see how it sounds? And do you think it's important to use lots of EXPRESSION when reading out LOUD?! I doubt that they have. The way they speak about it is so insensitive. For me, it's like they don't have big enough understanding on the issue."