A deliciously fun storytelling session with Selina Brown
See if you can help Selina Brown settle the age-old question of which tastie-tastic rice dish is the best.
In My Rice is Best, Shane’s favourite meal is a big, delicious, mouth-watering bowl of rice and peas. He believes it’s the best rice in the whole wide world and can’t wait to bring some in for his lunch at school. But how will he react when he discovers that his friend, Yinka, has also brought her favourite meal of jollof rice in for lunch?
About the author
Selina Brown is an Author, Marketing Consultant and Event Producer. At 16 she became the Youth MP for Nottingham, her love for words gained her two Degrees and a Masters at 21 years old. After living and working in New York, Jamaica, Kenya and Gambia Selina founded Little Miss Creative, an award-winning Female Development Agency that empowers girls in schools across the UK. During the pandemic she wrote the picture book series Nena that became popular in 2020. The same year Selina launched the intentionally renowned Black British Book Festival, which aims to celebrate new and emerging Black British authors across all genres of literature. In 2026, Selina was announced as the recipient of the inaugural Queen’s Reading Room Medal and was recognised as the UK’s first National Reading Hero.