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Lancashire Children's Book Of The Year
The Lancashire Book of the Year (previously Lancashire Children's Book of the Year) is an award given to works of children's literature, voted for by a panel of young judges. It was established in 1986 with the first award presented the following year. The award is run by Lancashire County Council's library service and sponsored by the University of Central Lancashire. List of prize winners *2022 Cynthia Murphy, ''Last One To Die'' *2021 Ben Oliver, ''The Loop'' *2020 Samuel Pollen, ''The Year I Didn't Eat'' *2019 Sarah Crossan, ''Moonrise'' *2018 Sue Wallman, ''See How They Lie'' *2017 Natalie Flynn, ''The Deepest Cut'' *2016 Holly Bourne, ''Am I Normal Yet'' *2015 Sarah Mussi, ''Riot'' *2014 Cat Clarke, ''Undone'' *2013 David Massey, ''Torn'' *2012 Chris Higgins, '' He's After Me'' *2011 Keren David, '' When I Was Joe'' *2010 Narinder Dhami, '' Bang, Bang, You're Dead'' *2009 ** First place: Sophie McKenzie, '' Blood Ties'' ** Second place: Michelle Magorian, ''Just Hen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Children's Literature
Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are created for children. Modern children's literature is classified in two different ways: genre or the intended age of the reader. Children's literature can be traced to traditional stories like fairy tales, that have only been identified as children's literature in the eighteenth century, and songs, part of a wider oral tradition, that adults shared with children before publishing existed. The development of early children's literature, before printing was invented, is difficult to trace. Even after printing became widespread, many classic "children's" tales were originally created for adults and later adapted for a younger audience. Since the fifteenth century much literature has been aimed specifically at children, often with a moral or religious message. Children's literature has been shaped by religious sources, like Puritan traditions, or by more philosophical and scienti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bang, Bang, You're Dead (novel)
Bang Bang You're Dead may refer to: * ''Bang Bang You're Dead'' (play), a 1999 one-act play by William Mastrosimone * ''Bang Bang You're Dead'' (film), a 2002 film based on the play * "Bang Bang You're Dead" (song), a 2006 song by Dirty Pretty Things * ''Our Man in Marrakesh'' (also known as ''Bang! Bang! You're Dead!''), a 1966 British comedy spy film * ''Bang, Bang, You're Dead!'', a 2009 young adult book by Narinder Dhami Narinder Dhami (born 1958 in Wolverhampton) is a British children's author. Early life Dhami's father was an Indian immigrant from the Punjab who arrived in the UK in 1954, and her mother is English.Bang You're Dead (other) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Stroud
Jonathan Anthony Stroud (born 27 October 1970) is a British writer of fantasy fiction, best known for the ''Bartimaeus'' young adult sequence and '' Lockwood & Co.'' children's series. His books are typically set in an alternate history London with fantasy elements, and have received note for his satire, and use of magic to reflect themes of class struggle. The ''Bartimaeus'' sequence is the recipient of the Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire and Mythopoeic Fantasy Awards. Stroud's works have also been featured on ALA Notable lists of books for children and young adults. In 2020, Netflix announced a TV series based on ''Lockwood & Co.'', with filming initiated in July 2021. Biography and Career Born in 1970 in Bedford, England, Stroud began to write stories at a very young age. He grew up in St Albans where he attended Wheatfields Junior School and St Albans Boys' School. He enjoyed reading books, drawing pictures, and writing stories. He attributes his love of reading and writing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raven's Gate
''Raven's Gate'' is the first book in ''The Power of Five'' series, written by Anthony Horowitz. It was published and released in the United Kingdom on 1 August 2005, by Walker Books Ltd and in the United States (1 June 2005) by Scholastic Press under the adjusted series title ''The Gatekeepers''. It is followed by ''Evil Star'', released in 2006, ''Nightrise'' in 2007, and ''Necropolis'' in 2008, with the final book ''Oblivion'' in 2012. Plot After being arrested for breaking and entering an Ipswich warehouse, 14-year-old delinquent Matthew 'Matt' Freeman is enrolled in a teenage rehabilitation program and sent to a farm in the village of Lesser Malling, Yorkshire. The farm is run by the stern spinster, Jayne Deverill, whose sister, Claire, is also a spinster and the local primary school's headmistress. While there, Matt experiences various unexplained phenomena and discovers a confidential file suggesting he possesses psychic abilities. A farmer called Tom Burgess tells Matt to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Horowitz
Anthony John Horowitz, (born 5 April 1955) is an English novelist and screenwriter specialising in mystery and suspense. His works for children and young adult readers include ''The Diamond Brothers'' series, the ''Alex Rider'' series, and ''The Power of Five'' series (known in the U.S. as ''The Gatekeepers''). His work for adults includes the play '' Mindgame'' (2001); two Sherlock Holmes novels, '' The House of Silk'' (2011) and '' Moriarty'' (2014); two novels featuring his own detective Atticus Pünd, '' Magpie Murders'' (2016) and '' Moonflower Murders'' (2020); and four novels featuring a fictionalised-version of himself as a companion and chronicler to private investigator Daniel Hawthorne, ''The Word Is Murder'' (2017), ''The Sentence Is Death'' (2018), ''A Line to Kill'' (2021), and ''The Twist of a Knife'' (2022). The Estate of James Bond creator Ian Fleming also chose Horowitz to write Bond novels utilizing unpublished material by Fleming, starting with ''Trigger Mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Divine Madness , the chief Germanic deity
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Divine Madness may refer to: * Divine madness, unconventional behavior often associated with certain types of spiritual practice ** Theia mania, unusual behavior attributed to intervention of a god in Plato's philosophy * ''Divine Madness'' (Madness album), an album by the British band Madness * ''Divine Madness'' (film), a 1980 Bette Midler concert film ** ''Divine Madness'' (Bette Midler album), the soundtrack album to that film * ''Divine Madness'' (novel), the fifth book in the CHERUB series by Robert Muchamore * The Divine Madness, an American band * Wōdanaz Odin (; from non, Óðinn, ) is a widely revered god in Germanic paganism. Norse mythology, the source of most surviving information about him, associates him with wisdom, healing, death, royalty, the gallows, knowledge, war, battle, victory ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Muchamore
Robert Muchamore (born 26 December 1971) is an English author, most notable for writing the '' CHERUB'' and ''Henderson's Boys'' novels. Early life Robert Muchamore was born in Tufnell Park, London, and is the youngest of four children. Muchamore grew up in Tufnell Park and attended St. Johns Upper Holloway and Acland Burghley School, leaving with a D in A-Level Economics and aspired to be either an architect, photographer or writer. Career ''CHERUB'' Muchamore started writing the ''CHERUB'' novels because his nephew Jared, who lived in Australia, could not find any novels that he liked reading. He tried to write novels that he would have enjoyed reading when he was an adolescent, a time when he remembers being too old for children's novels but not old enough to read adult novels. The ''CHERUB'' series follows the life of a character named James Adams (formerly James Choke) and his younger half-sister Lauren Adams (formerly Lauren Onions), a member of CHERUB (Charles Henders ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fearless (Lott Novel)
{{Infobox book , italic title = , name = Fearless , image = File:Fearless-Tim Lott-book cover.jpg , caption = , alt = Cover image of the book , author = Tim Lott , title_working = , illustrator = , cover_artist = , country = United Kingdom , language = English , series = , subject = , genre = , published = Walker Books , media_type = Print (Hardback and Paperback) , pages = 267 , awards = , isbn= 978-1-4063-0862-4 , oclc = , dewey = , congress = , preceded_by = , followed_by = , wikisource = , exclude_cover = ''Fearless'' is a 2007 young adult science fiction novel by British author Tim Lott Tim Lott (born 23 January 1956) is a British author. He worked as a music journalist and ran a magazine publishing business, launching '' Flexipop'' magazine in 1980 with ex-''Record Mirror'' journalist Barry Cain. Early ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucas Och Viktor
Lucas or LUCAS may refer to: People * Lucas (surname) * Lucas (given name) Arts and entertainment * Luca Family Singers, also known as "lucas ligner en torsk" * ''Lucas'' (album) (2007), an album by Skeletons and the Kings of All Cities * ''Lucas'' (film) (1986) an American rom-com * ''Lucas'' (novel) (2003), by Kevin Brooks * Lucas (''Mother 3''), a playable character in ''Mother 3'' and the ''Super Smash Bros.'' series since ''Brawl'' Organisations * Lucas Industries, a former British manufacturer of motor industry and aerospace industry components * Lucasfilm, an American film and television production company * LucasVarity, a defunct British automotive parts manufacturer, successor to Lucas Industries Mathematics * Lucas number, a series of integers similar to the Fibonacci number Places Australia * Lucas, Victoria Canada Mexico * Cabo San Lucas, Baja California United States * Lucas Township (other) * Lucas, Illinois * Lucas, Iowa * Lucas County, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Trap (Wray Novel)
The Trap may refer to: Film * ''The Trap'' (1913 film), a lost silent film starring Lon Chaney * ''The Trap'' (1914 film), a dramatic short starring Harry von Meter * ''The Trap'' (1918 film), an American drama film starring Alice Brady * ''The Trap'' (1919 film), an American drama film starring Olive Tell * ''The Trap'' (1922 film), an American silent Western starring Lon Chaney * ''The Trap'' (1946 film), a Charlie Chan film starring Sidney Toler * ''The Trap'' (1949 film), an Argentine film directed by Carlos Hugo Christensen * ''The Trap'' (1950 film), a Czech drama directed by Martin Frič * ''The Trap'' (1959 film), a crime drama directed by Norman Panama * ''The Trap'' (1966 film), an adventure/romance starring Oliver Reed and Rita Tushingham * ''The Trap'' (1985 film), an Italian erotic thriller starring Tony Musante and Laura Antonelli * ''The Trap'' (2007 film) or ''Klopka'', a Serbian film * ''The Trap'', a 2007 short film starring Jeanne Tripplehorn and C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Wray
Sarah (born Sarai) is a biblical matriarch and prophetess, a major figure in Abrahamic religions. While different Abrahamic faiths portray her differently, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam all depict her character similarly, as that of a pious woman, renowned for her hospitality and beauty, the wife and half-sister of Abraham, and the mother of Isaac. Sarah has her feast day on 1 September in the Catholic Church, 19 August in the Coptic Orthodox Church, 20 January in the LCMS, and 12 and 20 December in the Eastern Orthodox Church. In the Hebrew Bible Family According to Book of Genesis 20:12, in conversation with the Philistine king Abimelech of Gerar, Abraham reveals Sarah to be both his wife and his half-sister, stating that the two share a father but not a mother. Such unions were later explicitly banned in the Book of Leviticus (). This would make Sarah the daughter of Terah and the half-sister of not only Abraham but Haran and Nahor. She would also have been the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Just Henry
''Just Henry'' is a 2011 television film by ITV based on the 2008 Costa Book Award novel, ''Just Henry'' by Michelle Magorian. Plot Henry Dodge is a 15-year-old boy haunted by the tragic death of his father during World War II. Henry discovers, after being coached by his grandmother, that the father of a classmate was the man who murdered his own father. After a violent row resulting in disciplinary action from a pacifist teacher, Mrs Beaumont, and spurred by classmate Grace, Henry begrudgingly makes peace with the boy, Paul Jeffries, who (along with his mother) is treated as a pariah due to the belief that the elder Jeffries was a deserter during the second world war. Whilst developing a photo taken of Grace during a group outing involving the three classmates, on a camera given to him by Mrs Beaumont, Henry spots a man who closely resembled the man he knew as his father, Joey. Upon seeing the photo his pregnant mother, Maureen, passes out with shock. Henry begins to develop d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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