Something Beyond The Pages

Adalyn returns once again to Tandalet on mission to return someone who has been lost for a very long time but her mission isn’t as smooth or as enjoyable as she would have liked it to be, when she finds out the land is quite literally falling to bits and time is no longer turning, creating chaos, heartbreak and loss for the residents of Tandalet. With Gertie no longer by her side, is Adalyn in over her head even attempting to find a fix or will new and old friends be able to help her save the land once again? Or is this one challenge too far, especially when Adalyn’s unimaginable decisions cause upset to those who have come to care for her? When one door opens, it has to close somehow but the question is how and who will be the one to do so? Could this chilling timeless return be Adalyn’s last visit?

Adalyn is an average young girl seeking to escape an ordinary life. She gets handed a big responsibility and an adventure of a lifetime. This adventure is one that is hard to walk away from, especially when she forms a bond with an unusual character who is hiding a family secret. Adalyn visits a place that holds magic and things beyond her imagination. Her dreams come true, but not always how she pictures them. Some make her want to turn and run for home. Lies and revelations come to light and Adalyn experiences twists and turns before tears and blood are spilled. Good guys aren't always good and bad guys aren't always bad, you just have to work that one out for yourself. Just because you can't see it doesn't mean it's not real, it could be right under your nose. Hidden in plain sight, a world that no one has seen.

Adalyn is an average young girl seeking to escape an ordinary life. She gets handed a big responsibility and an adventure of a lifetime. This adventure is one that is hard to walk away from, especially when she forms a bond with an unusual character who is hiding a family secret. Adalyn visits a place that holds magic and things beyond her imagination. Her dreams come true, but not always how she pictures them. Some make her want to turn and run for home. Lies and revelations come to light and Adalyn experiences twists and turns before tears and blood are spilled. Good guys aren't always good and bad guys aren't always bad, you just have to work that one out for yourself. Just because you can't see it doesn't mean it's not real, it could be right under your nose. Hidden in plain sight, a world that no one has seen.

Talking Beyond the Page shows how different kinds of picturebooks can be used with children of all ages and highlights the positive educational gains to be made from reading, sharing, talking and writing about picturebooks. With contributions from some of the world's leading experts, chapters in this book consider how: children think about and respond to visual images and other aspects of picturebooks children’s responses can be qualitatively improved by encouraging them to think and talk about picturebooks before, during and after reading them the non-text features of picturebooks, when considered in their own right, can help readers to make more sense out of the book different kinds of picturebooks, such as wordless, postmodern, multimodal and graphic novels, are structured children can respond creatively to picturebooks as art forms picturebooks can help children deal with complex issues in their lives Talking beyond the Page also includes an exclusive interview with Anthony Browne who shares thoughts about his work as an author illustrator. This inspiring and thought provoking book is essential reading for teachers, student teachers, literacy consultants, academics interested in picturebook research and those organising and teaching on teacher education courses in children’s literature and literacy.

Invited to a tea hosted by the Air Force Officer's Wives Club, four women begin a journey of friendship and self-discovery which reveals hope is beyond yesterday's heartache and today's troubles.

Where goes the King’s Investigator, there goes death; by murder, usually. The author of the Best Selling The Heretics of De'Ath and other tales too numerous to be polite, does not know when to stop. Despite his protestations that disaster is inevitable, Brother Hermitage travels to Lincoln to sort out a library. It’s the task of his dreams, even if he’s reasonably confident that someone will get murdered in the process. And there are several candidates. One of those troublesome Norman soldiers in the tavern? The king’s tenant-in-chief, Lord Colesvain, who has just forced the whole town to build his house for him? Colesvain’s objectionable son, Picot, who has a rather unhealthy interest in “illustrated” literature? But a library should be safe enough; apart from the librarian obsessed with books on sorcery and magic, obviously. Delving in the bottom of a box of books delivered from a long-lost monastery, Hermitage discovers the great Hermes Parchment and the whole world goes mad. Hermitage, Wat and Cwen become embroiled in events that were pretty embroiled to begin with.There are wise men of the woods who turn out to be no such thing, and suggestions of an evil secret hidden in the parchment’s pages just waiting to be released. And a dead body turns up. Just as Hermitage said it would. Told you so. It’s yet another outing for the world’s most medieval detective. "very good indeed, brilliant," BBC Coventry and Warwick 5* Hilarious 5* Like Pratchett does 1066 5* Laugh out loud with a good mystery. 1* Stupid

Traces the authors' journeys throughout the world in search of lesser-known people who embody greatness, offering insight into the character qualities and choices that enable greatness including seeing others with love and acting from the heart. Original. 20,000 first printing.

Popular culture surrounds us: It is the products we consume, the movies we watch, the music we listen to, and the books we read. It is on our televisions, our phones, and our computers. Popular Culture in the Twenty-First Century engages with these texts and offers a diverse selection of contemporary scholarship from a wide variety of perspectives. These essays, adapted from presentations at the first annual Ray Browne Conference on Popular Culture held at Bowling Green State University in 2012, participate in an ongoing dialogue about popular culture’s importance in both the academy and our everyday lives. This collection honors the diversity, depth, and breadth of popular culture studies by examining contemporary television, film, video games, internet fandom, cultures and subcultures, and gender, sexuality, and identity politics. Popular Culture in the Twenty-First Century reflects the necessity of exploring our common experiences and the many cultural modes that shape our everyday lives.