Playing Beatie Bow


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Playing Beatie Bow


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Playing Beatie Bow


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A thrilling adventure story for children and young adults by Park Ruth, Playing Beatie Bow follows Abigail as she suddenly finds herself in the Sydney of a hundred years ago as the result of a scary game.




The Fiction Gateway


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In this guide, two experienced school librarians provide a selection of books for librarians, teachers and parents. The Fiction Gateway is an essential resource that supports individual, group and social reading program and provides an instant guide to matching children's interests with suitable reading material.




Building Character Through Multicultural Literature


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A comprehensive reference to 50 titles that will help children cultivate ethics, assume personal responsibility, and practice moral judgment in unfamiliar cultural contexts.




Books in the Life of a Child


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Books in the Life of a Child explores the value of books and reading in the stimulation of children's imagination and their fundamental importance in the development of language and true literacy. It examines not only the vast range of children's books available but also how to introduce young people to the joys of reading in the home, the school and in the community. The book has been written as a resource for all adults, especially teachers, student teachers, librarians and parents, and those who care about the value of literature for children. It is a comprehensive and critical guide, with chapters on the history of children's literature and an analysis of its many forms and genres, from poetry, fairytale, myth, legend and fantasy, through realistic and historical fiction, to humour, pulp fiction and information books.




Children's Literature


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Constructing Adolescence in Fantastic Realism


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Constructing Adolescence in Fantastic Realism examines those fundamental themes which inform our understanding of "the teenager"—themes that emerge in both literary and cultural contexts. Models of adolescence do not arise solely from discourses of psychology, sociology, and education. Rather, these models—frameworks including developmentalism, identity formation, social agency, and subjectivity in cultural space—can also be found represented symbolically in fantastic tropes such as metamorphosis, time-slip, hauntings, doppelgangers, invisibility, magic gifts, and witchcraft. These are the incredible, supernatural, and magical elements that invade the everyday and diurnal world of fantastic realism. In this original study, Alison Waller proposes a new critical term to categorize a popular and established genre in literature for teenagers: young adult fantastic realism. Though fantastic realism plays a crucial part in the short history of young adult literature, up until now this genre has typically been overlooked or subsumed into the wider class of fantasy. Touching on well-known authors including Robert Cormier, Melvin Burgess, Gillian Cross, Margaret Mahy, K.M. Peyton and Robert Westall, as well as previously unexamined writers, Waller explores the themes and ideological perspectives embedded in fantastic realist novels in order to ask whether parallel realities and fantastic identities produce forms of adolescence that are dynamic and subversive. One of the first studies to deal with late twentieth-century fantastic literature for young adults, this book makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of adult attitudes toward adolescent identity.




Playing Beatie Bow


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Playing Beatie Bow (07/08/1986): aka The adventures of Abigail, Beatie Bow: Das Spiel mit der Zeit (West Germany) : 2 copies of release draft script by Graham Hartley, dated September 1984, 1 is annotated; 1 release draft script by Peter Gawler and Irwin Lane, dated November 1984, heavily annotated; 1 copy of release draft script by Peter Gawler and Irwin Lane, dated January 1985, includes amended pages; 1 script, dated 1985, name 'Chris Howard' handwritten on the front cover, some annotations; 1 script dated 1985, production notes throughout; 2 copies of the novel by Ruth Park; 4 sets of photocopied drawings of costumes, set designs and a storyboard; 1 recording script by Sheryn Dee, dated 2/7/85; 1 recording script by Sheryn Dee, dated 8/7/85; 1 recording script by Sheryn Dee, dated 2/7/85; 1 recording script by Sheryn Dee, dated 9/7/85; 1colour printed promotional folder; 4 copies of printed study guide.




Playing Beatie Bow Popular Penguin


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The game is called Beatie Bow and the children play it for the thrill of scaring themselves. But when Abigail is drawn in, the game is quickly transformed into an extraordinary, sometimes horrifying, adventure as she finds herself transported to a place that is foreign yet strangely familiar . . .




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