Obioma Plays Football

* Focused PR campaign to accompany launch * Author events online and in-person * Advance copies to key influencers * Video content on social media to highlight illustrations

A joyful, inclusive story about an eight-year-old wheelchair user who finds friendship, belonging and her football team in a new city.

8 year-old Obioma is a football star. She uses a special stick to score goals and never loses a race in her wheelchair! But when she moves to a new city, she has to go to a new school where she has no friends, and everyone calls her “the girl with the wheelchair”. Obioma misses playing football most of all, until one day a girl named Ayana asks her to race. Once they start playing football, everyone joins in and Obioma finds a new team to play with!