Ten Sorry Tales
Ten Sorry Tales

Author: Mick Jackson

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Published: 2014-03-20

Total Pages: 137

ISBN-13: 0571317197

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From the pen of Mick Jackson, author of The Underground Man and Five Boys, come these ten acclaimed tales. Featuring undertakers, dark forests, resurrected butterflies and a singularly mean-spirited horse, the stories are nevertheless rooted in the realistic and all too recognisable world of retirement, loneliness, and childhood boredom. By turns funny, scary and heartbreaking, they are always illuminating, and further evidence of one of the most original and brilliant imaginations in contemporary fiction.

Ten Top Stories
Ten Top Stories

Author: David Sohn

Publisher: Bantam

Published: 1985-05-01

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 0553269798

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Humor, fantasy, love, adventure, danger, courage, death . . . The stories in this book were picked by young adults Here is a brilliant anthology. The editor presented students with the most popular stories published in the last several years. Then he said: Choose the best, choose the ones that grip you in a vise of excitement and won’t let you go, the ones that leave you with a sense of mystery and strangeness, the ones that rock you with laughter, the ones that really mean something to you as a young adult. The result is the brightest, freshest, most original collection of proven popular stories published in decades.

It's Kind of a Funny Story
It's Kind of a Funny Story

Author: Ned Vizzini

Publisher: Disney Electronic Content

Published: 2010-09-25

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13: 1423141083

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Like many ambitious New York City teenagers, Craig Gilner sees entry into Manhattan's Executive Pre-Professional High School as the ticket to his future. Determined to succeed at life—which means getting into the right high school to get into the right college to get the right job—Craig studies night and day to ace the entrance exam, and does. That's when things start to get crazy. At his new school, Craig realizes that he isn't brilliant compared to the other kids; he's just average, and maybe not even that. He soon sees his once-perfect future crumbling away.

Ten Small Tales
Ten Small Tales

Author:

Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780689505683

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Told with inviting rhythms and reassuring endings that embody simple truths, this collection of folk tales from Malaysia, Russia, Indonesia, Puerto Rico, China, Africa, and India promote cooperation and self-awareness and are complemented by serene pen-and-watercolor illustrations. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Tales of Ten Worlds
Tales of Ten Worlds

Author: Arthur C Clarke

Publisher: Orion

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9780575074965

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This classic collection of short stories includes some of Clarke's finest work: vivid glimpses into the future, a year, a decade, a century, a millennium from now.

Aardman Animations
Aardman Animations

Author: Annabelle Honess Roe

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2020-02-06

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 135013029X

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The Bristol-based animation company Aardman is best known for its most famous creations Wallace and Gromit and Shaun the Sheep. But despite the quintessentially British aesthetic and tone of its movies, this very British studio continues to enjoy international box office success with movies such as Shaun the Sheep Movie, Flushed Away and Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit. Aardman has always been closely linked with one of its key animators, Nick Park, and its stop motion, Plasticine-modelled family films, but it has more recently begun to experiment with modern digital filmmaking effects that either emulate 'Claymation' methods or form a hybrid animation style. This unique volume brings together leading film and animation scholars with children's media/animation professionals to explore the production practices behind Aardman's creativity, its history from its early shorts to contemporary hits, how its films fit within traditions of British animation, social realism and fantasy cinema, the key personalities who have formed its ethos, its representations of 'British-ness' on screen and the implications of traditional animation methods in a digital era.

Junior Science
Junior Science

Author: Mick Jackson

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Published: 2011-11-10

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 0571287964

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Published to tie in with Mick Jackson's appointment as the first writer-in-residence at the Science Museum, Junior Science comprises three stories - 'Zero Gravity', 'The Answering Machine', and 'Back to School'. Commissioned by BBC Radio 4, they were originally broadcast in November 2011. Full of wonder, pathos and mystery, the stories are marked by Jackson's unique sensibility, as they explore the way children start to become aware of the world around them.

Ten Tall Tales
Ten Tall Tales

Author: Seuss

Publisher: HarperCollins Children's Books

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780007258598

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Here, combined in one volume, are ten of Dr. Seuss' tallest tales, taken from three of his best-loved storybooks -- The Sneetches, Yurtle the Turtle, and I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today! Packed with zany pictures and hilarious rhymes, the tales make enchanting bedtime reading.

Growing Sideways in Twenty-first Century British Culture
Growing Sideways in Twenty-first Century British Culture

Author: Anne Malewski

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Published: 2021-12-15

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 9027258406

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This volume examines changing boundaries between childhood and adulthood in British society and culture at the beginning of the twenty-first century − where these age boundaries are widely debated, policed, and contested − to investigate alternatives to conventional ideas of growing up. Building on observations, especially in children’s literature criticism, that human growth is shaped by a grand narrative that privileges adulthood, and on terminologies of non-normative growth, particularly in queer theory, this monograph develops growing sideways as a concept that queers this grand narrative by destabilising childhood and adulthood, and the boundaries between them. The concept is refined through close readings of twenty-first century British children’s literature, television series, film, and participatory events, troubling age boundaries via specific strategies in three conceptual areas: appearance, play, and space. Exploring power structures around age and gender, this monograph traces growing sideways as a distinct and important alternative discourse of human growth.

The Widow's Tale
The Widow's Tale

Author: Mick Jackson

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Published: 2010-04-01

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 0571258719

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A newly-widowed woman has done a runner. She just jumped in her car, abandoned her (very nice) house in north London and kept on driving until she reached the Norfolk coast. Now she's rented a tiny cottage and holed herself away there, if only to escape the ceaseless sympathy and insincere concern. She's not quite sure, but thinks she may be having a bit of a breakdown. Or perhaps this sense of dislocation is perfectly normal in the circumstances. All she knows is that she can't sleep and may be drinking a little more than she ought to. But as her story unfolds we discover that her marriage was far from perfect. That it was, in fact, full of frustration and disappointment, as well as one or two significant secrets, and that by running away to this particular village she might actually be making her own personal pilgrimage. By turns elegiac and highly comical, The Widow's Tale conjures up this most defiantly unapologetic of narrators as she begins to pick over the wreckage of her life and decide what has real value and what she should leave behind.