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John Brown, Rose and the Midnight Cat
Rose lives with her dog, John Brown. They are happy together, just the two of them. But she reckons without the mysterious midnight cat, and it was John Brown who realised that things were going to change.
Message from Avalon
Like her father Kelly is a dreamer. The 20,000 dollars won in the lottery will surely make all their dreams come true.
The Nimbin
Philippa's life is changed forever one summer when she meets a furry, shadowy little creature called a nimbin, who adopts her and takes over her beach bag as its home. Not many people know about the nimbin, but Philippa shares the secret with her new friend, Greg, and together the three of them experience the most surprising - and maddening - summer ever.
Aranea
An industrious spider spends her days and nights spinning perfect webs.
High Hopes on Sea
Mr Hope invents wonderful new devices, Mrs. Hope likes burnt toast. Marissa watches the waves. And Dion listens to the whispers of the wind. But when Mr. Owen Mortlock and his brother Selwyn decide to build some apartments, everything is suddenly different. The wind goes away, the ocean vanishes from their windows, and that's not even the worst bit . . . But of course, there's always hope . . . and there's always a breeze somewhere.
On Writing Books for Children
Unique exercises and ideas for creating interesting, quality fiction for children.
Written for Children
This revised and updated edition provides children's and young adult librarians, teachers, literature classes, and library school classes with an authoritative history and analysis of the best British and American children's literature through 1994, with a new 2003 postscript including such recent phenomenons as J.K.Rowling and Philip Pullman. Written for Children traces the development of children's literature from its origins through the beginnings of the multimedia revolution. In effortless and entertaining style, Townsend, a world-renowned authority in the field, examines the changing attitudes toward children and their literature and analyzes the various strands that make up this important field. While examining many well-known American classics, Townsend also looks at British works that American audiences may have overlooked. With illustrations and bibliography.
Wagner and the Erotic Impulse
Though his image is tarnished today by unrepentant anti-Semitism, Richard Wagner (1813–1883) was better known in the nineteenth century for his provocative musical eroticism. In this illuminating study of the composer and his works, Laurence Dreyfus shows how Wagner’s obsession with sexuality prefigured the composition of operas such as Tannhäuser, Die Walküre, Tristan und Isolde, and Parsifal. Daring to represent erotic stimulation, passionate ecstasy, and the torment of sexual desire, Wagner sparked intense reactions from figures like Baudelaire, Clara Schumann, Nietzsche, and Nordau, whose verbal tributes and censures disclose what was transmitted when music represented sex. Wagner ...
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