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Santa Claus Unique Style
1,330 wordsChris Van Allsburg has been named one of the most intriguing authors and illustrators of childrens books. He has a unique style that captivates children and adults alike. Often, a persons background and experiences influence their work. Imagination has many roots into the childhood of an individual. Chris Van Allsburg grew up in a quiet suburban setting in Grand Rapids, Michigan. During the 1950 s, when he was a child, the town was a place that seemed like a haven for any young boy. There were o...
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Young Adults Young Readers
926 wordsNobody but you can do it, (Blume, 2) was a famous quote written by Judy Blume in one of her famous books. Judy has written over 30 juvenile fiction books that can relate to childrens lives. Judy has worked her whole life to try and reach children by talking about reality, however, other people try and hide the young adults from what is really happening in the world. Children read Blume's books because it takes them away from the reality of their lives and into the world of her fictional characte...
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Hopeless If You Dont Courses Are Hopeless Books
703 wordsCourses are hopeless if you dont have a passion Katherine McEwen struck it very lucky when she graduated from her illustration degree at Kingston University in 1996. She was approached at her degree show by a publishing house, Walker Books, and within a month was working on her first commission, Cows in the Kitchen. McEwen had wanted to illustrate childrens books since she was 10 her mother was a childrens book illustrator, and her father a publisher of childrens books. Childrens illustration wa...
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Win The Whitbread Childrens Book Pullman
478 wordsEpic childrens book takes Whitbread Philip Pullman became the first childrens writer to win the Whitbread prize last night with The Amber Spyglass, the final instalment of his magical His Dark Materials trilogy. He has also finally eclipsed his great rival JK Rowling and her Harry Potter stories by writing the first childrens book albeit an epic, complex and highly sophisticated one to take one of the big two literary awards. His victory is a remarkable turnaround for a man who refused to have h...
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Childrens Book One Day
688 wordsFrom page to screen Theres a sheet of paper stuck to the window of my studio a list of deadlines. This is what Im doing in the next few weeks. Alex Rider 4: My new childrens book, variously entitled Eagle Eye, Eagle Strike, Game-slayer or Never Play Dead. The title is the hardest part. Alex Rider 1: Stormbreaker Ive been commissioned to write the screenplay and Im 50 pages in. Alex Rider 3: Skeleton Key my American publisher has demanded extensive changes to the last book as he thinks the CIA ag...
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Harry Potter Childrens Book
540 wordsIn the past couple years, there has been a growing phenomenon in the world of childrens literature, this phenomenon is Harry Potter. J. K. Rowling's series of novels about a young wizard and his years at Hogwarts School of Wizarding and Witchcraft, has become one of the most successful childrens book series of all time. Before reading any of the now four novels, one may find it hard to believe that a childrens novel may be so entertaining. But once one starts reading any of the four books, it is...
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Primary Schools Childrens Book
817 wordsIts a small world Theres a course in Wrexham, north Wales, requiring fieldwork in toy departments, bookshops, primary schools and zoos. On it, artists learn to harness their childhood obsessions and emerge with a portfolio to impress the most jaded of childrens book editors or art directors. The UKs first and only BA in illustration for childrens publishing, now in its fourth year, owes its existence to Sue Thornton. It was her experiences as a lecturer in general illustration that convinced her...
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Crime And Punishment Loss Of Innocence
763 wordsLets forget about childrens writing Interviewed in the wake of his Whitbread book triumph on the Today programme this morning, Philip Pullman told us what we already knew: that his book is a formidable work by a fiercely rigorous writer. He even had the good sense to realise that the two minutes allotted would not allow time to even begin to answer the big question posed by James Naughtie: What is a childrens book? Instead, Pullman sounded modestly delighted and gave a wonderfully succinct summa...
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Stop Equating Populism Critics Would Stop Equating Populism Read
356 wordsGood writing for all ages I find your comment that Terry Pratchett's books are mainly read by teenagers insulting (Pied Piper brings belated literary reward, July 13). I am 29 and an avid reader. My husband, 36, my father, 54, and my friends, 20 s- 40 s, are all fans. I have even converted two of my work colleagues to the discworld series. I dont know any teenagers who read him, although Im sure there are some. I wish critics would stop equating populism with bad literature. A book that keeps us...
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Harry Potter Childrens Books
744 wordsMoving picture books Threatened for the best part of three decades by spending cuts in schools and libraries combined with the rise of new technology and changing family life, childrens publishing had been rattled to its bones. Not any more. After years trying slavishly to follow other media, especially television, by becoming ever shorter and more contemporary, the tables have been turned: film, TV and even radio are now looking to childrens books for the next big thing. Not only are J K Rowlin...
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Childrens Book Prize Book Of The Year Win
551 wordsI didnt expect to win Philip Pullman, 55, became the first childrens writer to win the &# 163; 25, 000 Whitbread Book of the Year prize on Tuesday, with The Amber Spyglass, the third instalment of the magical His Dark Materials trilogy. I did some writing in my shed on Saturday morning. Its a shorter book than the last one a fairy tale along the lines of I Was a Rat which was recently dramatized by the BBC. After shopping in the afternoon, my wife and I walked the dogs. They are brother and sist...
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Boxton Creek Home Florida And Dallas Book
684 wordsSatisfyingly scary monsters Ruby Holler by Sharon Creech 320 pp, Bloomsbury Sharon Creech, who won the Newbery Medal (the most important American childrens book award) with Walk Two Moons, is a skilful storyteller, whose books I always read with pleasure. Ruby Holler concerns the adventures of the orphan twins Florida (a girl) and Dallas (a boy), who are named after the tourist pamphlets in the box in which they were abandoned as babies. When the story begins they are 13, and living in the Boxto...
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