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Wordlife : stories and poems for children from the cheshire prize for literature 2011 / introduction by Toby Forward ; edited by Jaki Brien.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Children's stories, English.
- Children's poetry, English.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (118 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chester, [England] : University of Chester Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In 2012 the High Sheriff's Prize for Literature was for a short story or poem suitable for seven- to fourteen-year-old readers. Wordlife includes the very best of the entries for the competition. Some are startling, some are very funny, some take you to quiet and comfortable places while others may make you very uncomfortable indeed. All these stories and poems remind us both that the real and imaginary lives of children are rich and complex and that literature helps children to make sense of their own lives, empathise with the lives of others and play with ideas which transform the ordinary i
- Contents:
- Front cover
- Title pages
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Catherine Jones - A wisp of green smoke
- Ingrid Dean - Pirate through the post
- Barbara Holliday - The day that grief came to stay
- Gabrielle Pearson Heavisides - The hoodie
- Angela Topping - Maggoty Johnson
- Rachael Bate - Pied Piper
- Sheila Blackburn - Counting marbles
- Hilary Bowen - Deadly dancing
- Catherine Bruton - The dog-father
- Pat Davies - The wizard's tea shop
- Derek Matthews - Going for gold
- Jo Mayers - Colour coding
- Don Nixon - Exam room
- Paul Palmer - Frozen
- Tanya D. Ravenswater - Scarce
- Patricia Roberts - Mermaid's purse
- Rosamund Roberts - Fake blood and bullies
- Lisa Jane Rowlands - The extraordinary inventions of Victor Vanash
- Nicola Russell-Johnson - Arthur and the mountain
- Beverley Sims - Hester's hands
- Andrew Smith - Forevermore
- Naomi Walker - The evacuee
- Stephen Wrigley - Lion
- Back cover.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 26, 2013).
- ISBN:
- 1-908258-52-7
- OCLC:
- 879030169
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