Talking Books is a collection of monologues - reworked transcripts from indepth interviews with some of the most important and influential of contemporary children's writers.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction Author Sections: 1. The Lost Angels/Readathon Sleepathon/specialist subject - compiling anthologies Brain Moses 2. Civil Lies/specialist subject - performing poetry Benjamin Zephaniah 3. Peter and the Wolf/Tom and the Island of Dinosaurs/specialist subject - illustrating text Ian Beck 4. The Way Things Work/Eyewitness Guide to Music/specialist subject - working with editors Neil Ardley 5.Bloody Scotland/Shakespeare Stories/specialist subject - series publishing Terry Deary 6. The Piemakers/specialist subject - writing for television: Lizzie Dripping, Moondial, The Demon Headmaster Helen Cresswell 7. The Demon Headmaster/Wolf Gillian Cross 8. Dear Nobody/The Snake-stone/specialist subject - writing books in schools Berlie Doherty 9. Mouse Party/specialist subject - writing for all ages Alan Durant 10. Clockwork/His Dark Materials 1: Northern Lights /specialist subject - working with illustrators Philip Pullman 11. Blood Sinister (Point Horror)/specialist subject - writing horror and the horror phenomenon Celia Rees 12. The Blue Horse/specialist subject - methods of research Norman Silver 13. Double Act/The Suitcase Kid/specialist subject - working with Nick Sharratt
