Welkin Weasels (2): Castle Storm

Welkin Weasels (2): Castle Storm PDF Author: Garry Kilworth
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 144643222X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 325

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The land of Welkin is in trouble! Not only is it at risk of flood, but now the rat hordes are on the move, fighting to gain dominance over the other animals.... Sylver's search for the elusive humans - their only hope - leads him and his intrepid band of weasels to an enormous ruined castle, deep in the heart of the bleak flatlands of Darkmoor. Here he meets Clive of Coldkettle, the leader of the red squirrels - who are in a state of permanent war with the grey squirrels. Can Sylver suceed in his quest whilst caught in the midst of such a savage conflict?

Welkin Weasels (2): Castle Storm

Welkin Weasels (2): Castle Storm PDF Author: Garry Kilworth
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 144643222X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 325

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The land of Welkin is in trouble! Not only is it at risk of flood, but now the rat hordes are on the move, fighting to gain dominance over the other animals.... Sylver's search for the elusive humans - their only hope - leads him and his intrepid band of weasels to an enormous ruined castle, deep in the heart of the bleak flatlands of Darkmoor. Here he meets Clive of Coldkettle, the leader of the red squirrels - who are in a state of permanent war with the grey squirrels. Can Sylver suceed in his quest whilst caught in the midst of such a savage conflict?

Castle Storm

Castle Storm PDF Author: Garry Kilworth
Publisher: Transworld Pub
ISBN: 9780552545471
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 380

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In the land of Welkin, ruled over by iron paw of vicious stoats, Sylver - the leader of a band of outlaw weasels - is on a quest: to find the humans who abandoned the land many years ago and bring them back to Welkin. With his small company of weasels, he journeys south, through myriad adventures, in searce of an ancient castle wherein lies the clue he seeks - Castle Storm And meanwhile in the north, Welkin itself is under threat. For hundreds and thousands rats are pouring down from their marshland homein a bloadthirsty horde to seize power from the stoats.

Thunder Oak

Thunder Oak PDF Author: Garry Kilworth
Publisher: Transworld Publishers
ISBN: 9780552545464
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Corgi books Series : A Welkin Weasles Adventure.

To See the Wizard

To See the Wizard PDF Author: Laurie Ousley
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527566455
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 440

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To See the Wizard: Politics and the Literature of Childhood takes its central premise, as the title indicates, from L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Upon their return to The Emerald City after killing the Wicked Witch of the West, the task the Wizard assigned them, Dorothy, the Tin Woodman, Scarecrow, and Lion learn that the wizard is a “humbug,” merely a man from Nebraska manipulating them and the citizens of both the Emerald City and of Oz from behind a screen. Yet they all continue to believe in the powers they know he does not have, still insisting he grant their wishes. The image of the man behind the screen—and the reader’s continued pursuit of the Wizard—is a powerful one that has at its core an issue central to the study of children’s literature: the relationship between the adult writer and the child reader. As Jack Zipes, Perry Nodelman, Daniel Hade, Jacqueline Rose, and many others point out, before the literature for children and young adults actually reaches these intended readers, it has been mediated by many and diverse cultural, social, political, psychological, and economic forces. These forces occasionally work purposefully in an attempt to consciously socialize or empower, training the reader into a particular identity or way of viewing the world, by one who considers him or herself an advocate for children. Obviously, these “wizards” acting in literature can be the writers themselves, but they can also be the publishers, corporations, school boards, teachers, librarians, literary critics, and parents, and these advocates can be conservative, progressive, or any gradation in between. It is the purpose of this volume to interrogate the politics and the political powers at work in literature for children and young adults. Childhood is an important site of political debate, and children often the victims or beneficiaries of adult uses of power; one would be hard-pressed to find a category of literature more contested than that written for children and adolescents. Peter Hunt writes in his introduction to Understanding Children’s Literature, that children’s books “are overtly important educationally and commercially—with consequences across the culture, from language to politics: most adults, and almost certainly the vast majority in positions of power and influence, read children’s books as children, and it is inconceivable that the ideologies permeating those books had no influence on their development.” If there were a question about the central position literature for children and young adults has in political contests, one needs to look no further than the myriad struggles surrounding censorship. Mark I. West observes, for instance, “Throughout the history of children’s literature, the people who have tried to censor children’s books, for all their ideological differences, share a rather romantic view about the power of books. They believe, or at least they profess to believe, that books are such a major influence in the formation of children’s values and attitudes that adults need to monitor every word that children read.” Because childhood and young-adulthood are the sites of political debate for issues ranging from civil rights and racism to the construction and definition of the family, indoctrinating children into or subverting national and religious ideologies, the literature of childhood bears consciously political analysis, asking how socialization works, how children and young adults learn of social, cultural and political expectations, as well as how literature can propose means of fighting those structures. To See the Wizard: Politics and the Literature of Childhood intends to offer analysis of the political content and context of literature written for and about children and young adults. The essays included in To See the Wizard analyze nineteenth and twentieth century literature from America, Britain, Australia, the Caribbean, and Sri Lanka that is for and about children and adolescents. The essays address issues of racial and national identity and representation, poverty and class mobility, gender, sexuality and power, and the uses of literature in the healing of trauma and the construction of an authentic self.

Welkin Weasels (4): Gaslight Geezers

Welkin Weasels (4): Gaslight Geezers PDF Author: Garry Kilworth
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1446453286
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 277

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Montagu Sylver - a descendant of the famous outlaw, Sylver - is a famous weasel detective, intent on solving mysteries. Can he ferret out the truth when he learns that the anarchist Spindrick plans to blow everyone to smithereens with a fiendish bomb? Or find a lemming prince who vanishes almost as soon as he sets paw on Welkin soil? From rat-controlled sewers, to the fog-shrouded docks and a banner-strewn battlefront in the north, Monty is soon on the trail, aided and abetted by his trusty weasel companions. But time is running out - especially when the corrupt Sheriff Falshed trumps up a charge against Monty and he is suddenly a fugitive from the law... Set in a gloriously witty semi-Victorian world, GASLIGHT GEEZERS is a fast and furious animal fantasy tale that begins a new cycle of adventures for the weasels of Welkin.

Windjammer Run

Windjammer Run PDF Author: Garry Kilworth
Publisher: Corgi Childrens
ISBN: 9780552545488
Category : A Welkin Weasels adventure
Languages : en
Pages : 416

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Corgi books Series : A Welkin Weasles Adventure Book3.

Welkin Weasels (1): Thunder Oak

Welkin Weasels (1): Thunder Oak PDF Author: Garry Kilworth
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1446432203
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 311

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Long ago, long before Sylver the weasel was born, the humans all left Welkin. Now life for a weasel - under the heavy paw of the vicious stoat rulers - is pretty miserable (unless you hap,pen to be a weasel who LIKES living in a hovel and toiling all hours for the benefit of the stoats). It's certainly not enough for Sylver. Or for his small band of outlaws, both jacks and jills. But slingshots and darts can only do so much against heavily-armed stoats and life as an outlaw has a fairly limited future (probably a painful one, too). That's when Sylver comes up with his plan - a heroic plan that could destroy the stoats' reign of power for ever. He will find the humans, and bring them back to Welkin! And the first step is to follow up a clue from the past - a clue that lies in a place known as THUNDER OAK...

Kaapse bibliotekaris

Kaapse bibliotekaris PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 354

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Issues for Nov. 1957- include section: Accessions. Aanwinste, Sept. 1957-

The Malcontent

The Malcontent PDF Author: John Marston
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408144492
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 157

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"This Malevole is one of the most prodigious affections that ever conversed with nature: a man, or rather a monster, more discontent than Lucifer." The Malcontent is a striking example of the new satiric tone and moral seriousness in English comedy of the early 1600s. The play's vision of a fallen humanity driven by lust and ambition is created partly by its depiction of Machiavellian intrigue in the court of Genoa, and partly by the disaffected Malevole, the malcontent of the title, who is actually the deposed Duke Altofronto in disguise. Marston's tragi-comedy is full of reversals, surprises and moral transformations and offers a thin disguise for the Jacobean court and its vices. This new student edition contains a lengthy new Introduction with background on the author, date and sources, theme, critical interpretation and stage history.

Welkin Weasels (3): Windjammer Run

Welkin Weasels (3): Windjammer Run PDF Author: Garry Kilworth
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1446432246
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 323

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Sylver and his band of weasels take to the high seas in search of the humans who mysteriously deserted the land of Welkin many years ago. On their tail is the seasick Sheriff Falshed, commanded by the stoat rulers to stop Sylver at any cost. And if that's not bad enough, behind them is a ship crammed to the gunwales with bloodthirsty rats, convinced that Sylver is secretly hunting a pirate's treasure...