You don’t see a lot of depictions of disabled kids where they are allowed to be crotchety, mean, unreasonable, brave, gutsy, actually-still-children, who have their own agency – and this story gives you two of them (the only other example I can think of is The Fault in Our Stars) LoveReading4Kids exists because books change lives, and buying books through LoveReading4Kids means you get to change the lives of future generations, with 25% of the cover price donated to schools in need. Join our community to get personalised book suggestions, extracts straight to your inbox, 10% off RRPs, and to change children’s lives. I’ll draw a picture of Mark feeling quite well again. Only I suppose then I’ll have to dream about him again, and I don’t want to. I don’t see why I should have to dream about him - why can’t he get well without my having to see him? Perhaps I could just draw him looking quite well, but not in that house, which is where I always seem to get to. And then he probably wouldn’t believe I’d done anything about it, he’d think it had all just happened, and what I’d done didn’t make any difference at all!’

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Ren: The set of the outside of the paper house is very good. In the film, when you first see it it’s convincingly flat and eerie looking. Adam: Sure. So in the book it’s much more based around problem solving. Creating objects that Mark might like, or might help Mark in the house. Whereas in the film, she draws the house and next time we see her draw a whole plethora of objects, and there’s not much rhyme or reason. Yes, I too saw this excellent series I was only about 11 at the time, but it stayed vividly in my memory - utterly disturbing and very scary.

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Become a Faber Member for free and receive curated book recommendations, special competitions and exclusive discounts. Ren: The not-father is creeping down the stairs and Mark’s urging Anna to destroy just the part of the drawing with her father in it. But she’s asleep, so her sleeping self is reaching for this drawing, and she has a candle next to her bed, and she manages to set it on fire. Ren: So I have two textures of the week, they’re both from the same scene in the film, and they’re both great. So my first one is the huge industrial-looking ice-cream machine —

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Ali: — she does draw, and she does use the same pencil, as far as you can tell, but it’s not really emphasised as being an important object. Storr (1970), 36 "I wrote them to amuse Polly — not that I told them to her. She read them when I had written them, because she was one of the children who always had a wolf under the bed and she was frightened of it."

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Ren: Yes, because it’s like — is it part of her illness, or is it because she set her bed on fire? You don’t know. Ren: So Anna’s mother is quite frazzled, and her father is away for long stretches of work. And Anna compared to Marianne is a much more rebellious kid. Marianne is in bed for weeks at a time, convalescing, whereas Anna doesn’t seem to spend more than a few minutes in bed before she’s up wandering around. Tea Ladies, The 1 9 7 8 (Australia) 8 x 30 minute episodes This short-lived Australian comedy series from ATV-0 was set in Parliament… Ren: I mean I think it’s definitely a proper quintessential children’s horror theme. In the Coraline vein of something familiar becoming unfamiliar and monstrous. But you don’t really know who it’s aimed for.

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Ren: Yeah, I did wonder about that. Because they’re like ‘we could get down to the beach by drawing a ladder’ but then they think ‘oh, but you couldn’t draw a ladder that long’. Adam: The father is almost notably absent, I’d say, in Marianne Dreams. He’s mentioned maybe twice, but very much isn’t present, interestingly. So I thought that the film maybe reflected that by having the father not present, and being away for his work. Adam: Which is what I think makes the film a very odd adaptation of the book because it’s coming from a very different perspective. Quite a lot of it is about her frustration at not being able to get out of bed, and her being grumpy and upset about having to spend this time in bed, and how she feels about the people around her and things like that. The perfect gift for girls aged 8+, this well-loved classic will delight a new generation of readers of the Faber Children's Classics list. About This Edition ISBN:It turns out that she’s actually used a different, ordinary, pencil to scribble over Mark’s face. Which is fortunate. Adam: I think it becomes a bit more about abandonment anxiety. More about her frustrations at his absence than any violence? I don’t know. It does feel like an odd choice, and then it does then put the rehabilitation of the father, and the restoration of the father-daughter relationship, to the forefront of the narrative.

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Armistice Day: A Collection of Remembrance - Spark Interest and Educate Children about Historical Moments Ali: And in the book the existence of the house is definitely caused by the pencil, specifically. It’s tied to this particular pencil that she finds in her grandmother’s work box. There’s no suggestion of that in the film at all, she just draws stuff.Storr's books often involve confronting fears, even in the lighthearted Polly stories, and she was aware that she wrote frightening stories. [9] On the subject, she writes: [10] "We should show them that evil is something they already know about or half know. It's not something right outside themselves and this immediately puts it, not only into their comprehension, but it also gives them a degree of power". So, in Paperhouse, it’s a similar setup, Anna draws her father and then decides she’s drawn him wrong and scribbles his face out. As Marianne sleeps, she finds herself transported to the house she has drawn, and the mysterious world that lies beyond. Together with a strange but familiar boy, she embarks on an adventure that runs between reality and dream. There is nobody in the house so when Marianne awakes again she draws a boy at an upstairs window – a companion during her next dream visit. As it turns out the boy, Mark (Steven Jones) is also in bed in the real world – seriously ill with polio and unable to walk – and has now been pulled into her alternative world. Catherine Storr, Baroness Balogh (born Catherine Cole; 21 July 1913 – 8 January 2001, [1]) was an English children's writer, best known for her novel Marianne Dreams and for a series of books about a wolf ineptly pursuing a young girl, beginning with Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf. She also wrote under the name Helen Lourie. [2] Life [ edit ]