What’s So Good
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Age 7–11 / DVD includes five series – 165 minutes of programming $507.00 NG445498
Curriculum Connections
• Investigates a range of authors and genres • Helps to describe and evaluate the style of an individual writer
• Develops an awareness of the author’s voice • Looks at connections and contrasts in the work of different
• Indicates how authors use their sources of inspiration writers
• Compares a range of story styles and settings • Gives an insight into the way authors handle time, characters,
plot and settings
What’s So Good About ... JK Rowling? What’s So Good About ... Roald Dahl?
Everyone knows that JK Rowling’s Harry Potter stories are hugely popular. Set in the garden of the
These programmes show why the Harry Potter books are so compulsive. country house where Dahl
In the first programme, three avid Harry Potter fans talk about the appeal conceived many of his
of the books and explore some of the key features within them. The second stories, the programmes
programme explores the Harry Potter phenomenon with the help of a group of explore what makes his
young critics and their website. writing so successful and
feature a variety of lively
1. Platform 9
3
/4, Boarding School, Owls, Scary Bits readings, accompanied by
2. More Than Just Books – Harry Online Quentin Blake’s wonderful
illustrations. This fascinating
2 x 15-minute programmes
documentary analysis
of Dahl’s life and work
What’s So Good About ... Jamila Gavin?
shows how he drew upon
his experience and vivid
imagination to create stories.
These programmes profile the life and work of this popular fiction writer,
author of Grandpa Chatterji, Coram Boy, The Eye of the Horse and The
1. Heroes and Monsters:
Wormholers. We discover how Jamila, born in the foothills of the Himalayas
Dahl’s characters
in India, inherited her love of stories from her English mother. She started
2. The Greatest Secrets: How Dahl’s life and experiences influenced
writing because she felt there weren’t enough books reflecting the lives
his work
of children from different ethnic backgrounds. We also learn how her own
3. Anything is Possible: Dahl’s creative genius
grandfather was the inspiration for Grandpa Chatterji.
3 x 15-minute programmes
1. Myths and Legends: Childhood, friendships, story content
2. Wheel of Life: Creative writing, a perfect story, ideas from life
What’s So Good About ... Malorie Blackman?
2 x 15-minute programmes
These programmes reflect on the life and work of the hugely popular author of
What’s So Good About ... Dick King-Smith?
Thief!, Noughts and Crosses, Tell Me No Lies, Whizziwig Returns, Trust Me and
Pig-Heart Boy. Born in London, Malorie found that writing helped her cope with
her parents’ separation as a teenager, and she hasn’t stopped writing since!
Dick King-Smith has written over a hundred books including Foxbusters,
In these two programmes Malorie shares her writing tips and inspirations,
Saddlebottom, Harry’s Mad and The Queen’s Nose, and he achieved worldwide
celebrates her talent and tells her readers exactly what they want to know.
fame when his book The Sheep-Pig was made into the successful film Babe.
These two programmes give an insight into King-Smith’s life and how the
1. We Have the Technology: Growing up, hobbies, getting ideas, top tips
various experiences he has lived through have influenced his writing. In them
2. Friends and Family: Creating characters, short chapters, the importance
he explains some of his approaches to writing and tells us why animals play
of family
such an important role in his books.
2 x 15-minute programmes
1. Something on Paper 2. Through an Animal’s Eyes
2 x 15-minute programmes
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