Pupil outcome: I can engage with the plot of ‘The Viewer’. Key learning points: - ‘The Viewer’ is a narrative fiction story with elements of mystery and supernatural fantasy. - The setting in the opening is a ‘dump’ in the city. - The...

Pin-pricks in the celestial sphere, through which shines the light of heaven? Or gods and heroes looking down from their constellations? Or lights kindled above middle earth by Varda Elbereth and brightened with the dew of the trees of...

Books allow us to transcend the world we live in, but they also help us to connect to the people and places around us. In this audio story, several young students at a school in Washington D.C. talk about the plot, characterization,...

David Almond interview with Michael Rosen Kids' Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen David Almond's novels for children and teenagers have all been hugely popular with readers young and old, and highly acclaimed by critics and reviewers....

Consciousness is a terrible curse. Or so says a character in screenwriter/director Charlie Kaufman’s Being John Malkovich. Part theater of the absurd and part neuroscience fiction, the Oscar-winning filmmaker’s work captures the...