Bog Child

Author: Siobhan Dowd
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 144817337X
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 285

Book Description
Digging for peat in the mountain with his Uncle Tally, Fergus finds the body of a child, and it looks like she's been murdered. As Fergus tries to make sense of the mad world around him - his brother on hunger-strike in prison, his growing feelings for Cora, his parents arguing over the Troubles, and him in it up to the neck, blackmailed into acting as courier to God knows what, a little voice comes to him in his dreams, and the mystery of the bog child unfurls. Bog Child is an astonishing novel exploring the sacrifices made in the name of peace, and the unflinching strength of the human spirit.

Bog Child

Author: Siobhan Dowd
Publisher: David Fickling Books
ISBN: 0375841350
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338

Book Description
DIGGING FOR PEAT in the mountain with his Uncle Tally, Fergus finds the body of a child, and it looks like she’s been murdered. As Fergus tries to make sense of the mad world around him—his brother on hunger-strike in prison, his growing feelings for Cora, his parents arguing over the Troubles, and him in it up to the neck, blackmailed into acting as courier to God knows what—a little voice comes to him in his dreams, and the mystery of the bog child unfurls. Bog Child is an astonishing novel exploring the sacrifices made in the name of peace, and the unflinching strength of the human spirit.

The Bog Baby

Author: Jeanne Willis
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0718194020
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32

Book Description
When two small sisters go fishing to the magic pond, they find something much better than a frog or a newt. They find a bog baby. Small and blue with wings like a dragon, the girls decide to make him their secret. I won't tell if you won't. But the bog baby is a wild thing, and when he becomes poorly, the girls decide they must tell their mum. And she tells them the greatest lesson, if you really love something, you have to let it go.

A Frog in the Bog

Author: Karma Wilson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1481444522
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32

Book Description
There's a frog on the log in the middle of the bog. A small, green frog on a half-sunk log in the middle of the bog ...

Frog in a Bog

Author: John Himmelman
Publisher: Charlesbridge Publishing
ISBN: 1570915172
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35

Book Description
Features animals, insects, and plants in a bog.

A Monster Calls

Author: Patrick Ness
Publisher: Thorndike Striving Reader
ISBN: 9781432875831
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
Large Print�s increased font size and wider line spacing maximizes reading legibility, and has been proven to advance comprehension, improve fluency, reduce eye fatigue, and boost engagement in young readers of all abilities, especially struggling, reluctant, and striving readers.

Irish Children's Literature and Culture

Author: Keith O'Sullivan
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113682510X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 214

Book Description
What constitutes a ‘national literature’ is rarely straightforward, and it is especially complex when discussing writing for young people in an Irish context. Until recently, there was only a slight body of work that could be classified as ‘Irish children’s literature’ (whatever the parameters) in comparison with Ireland’s contribution to adult literature in the twentieth century. This volume looks critically at Irish writing for children from the 1980s to the present, examining the work of many writers and illustrators and engaging with all the major forms and genres. Topics include the gothic, the speculative, picturebooks, poetry, post-colonial discourse, identity and ethnicity, and globalization. Modern Irish children’s literature is also contextualized in relation to Irish mythology and earlier writings, thereby demonstrating the complexity of this fascinating area. The contributors, who are leading experts in their fields, examine a range of texts in relation to contemporary literary and cultural theory, and also in relation to writing for adults, thereby inviting a consideration of how well writing for a young audience can compare with writing for an adult one. This groundbreaking work is essential reading for all interested in Irish literature, childhood, and children’s literature.

Bog Child

Author: Adrian Flynn
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780198310877
Category : Children's plays, English
Languages : en
Pages : 140

Book Description
Exciting and skilful adaptations of a range of modern novels. New, innovative activities specifically tailored to support the KS3 Framework for Teaching English and help students to fulfil the Framework objectives. Activities include work on Speaking and Listening, close text analysis, and structure of playscripts, and act as a springboard for personal writing.

Irish Children’s Literature and the Poetics of Memory

Author: Rebecca Long
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350167266
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 208

Book Description
Focusing on the mythological narratives that influence Irish children's literature, this book examines the connections between landscape, time and identity, positing that myth and the language of myth offer authors and readers the opportunity to engage with Ireland's culture and heritage. It explores the recurring patterns of Irish mythological narratives that influence literature produced for children in Ireland between the nineteenth and the twenty-first centuries. A selection of children's books published between 1892, when there was an escalation of the cultural pursuit of Irish independence and 2016, which marked the centenary of the Easter 1916 rebellion against English rule, are discussed with the aim of demonstrating the development of a pattern of retrieving, re-telling, remembering and re-imagining myths in Irish children's literature. In doing so, it examines the reciprocity that exists between imagination, memory, and childhood experiences in this body of work.

Irish Childhoods

Author: Pádraic Whyte
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 144383095X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 220

Book Description
While much has been written about Irish culture’s apparent obsession with the past and with representing childhood, few critics have explored in detail the position of children’s fiction within such discourses. This book serves to redress these imbalances, illuminating both the manner in which children’s texts engage with complex cultural discourses in contemporary Ireland and the significant contribution that children’s novels and films can make to broader debates concerning Irish identity at the end of the twentieth and beginning of the twenty-first centuries. Through close analysis of specific books and films published or produced since 1990, Irish Childhoods offers an insight into contrasting approaches to the representation of Irish history and childhood in recent children’s fiction. Each chapter interrogates the unique manner in which an author or filmmaker engages with twentieth century Irish history from a contemporary perspective, and reveals that constructions of childhood in Irish children’s fiction are often used to explore aspects of Ireland’s past and present.