Discusses Taxi Driver from a broad academic and critical perspective, setting plot, themes and techniques in context and exploring the film s significance. This York Film Note encourages students to appreciate differing interpretations of each film and to develop their own critical thinking.
Who Are the Jedi? (Star Wars: Clone Wars (DK Hardcover))
by Glenn Dakin
Reveals the secrets of the Jedi Knights, addressing such topics as what a lightsaber is, why R2-D2 is a great friend, and which Jedi the Sith fear most.
Discusses Citizen Kane from a broad academic and critical perspective, setting plot, themes and techniques in context and exploring the film's significance. This York Film Note encourages students to appreciate differing interpretations of each film and to develop their own critical thinking.
Sketchbook (Sketchbook Cat Unicorn, #2) (Sketchbook Sloth, #5)
by Adorable Notebooks
Let's Move and Dance (50 Exciting Things to Do)
by Ros Bayley and Lynn Broadbent
Like school, prison or an enormous cake with a spyglass baked into it, this collection of puzzles and games will keep you 'out of trouble', a phrase which here means 'far away from distressing books and movies'. Lemony Snicket has spent many miserable years researching the lives of the Baudelaire orphans, but you can always do something much cheerier with your time.
The first in a series on Shakespeare's original texts, including facsimile pages, this version of "Hamlet" is claimed to be, in some ways, the most authentic version of the play that we have. Included are an introduction, notes, and a theoretical, historical and contextual critique. This text has been rejected by scholars as a "bad Quarto" - corrupt and pirated text printed without the permission of the playwright or his company. Nonetheless, it was the first version of the play to be published...
``It is the Theory Which Decides What Can be Observed''
by Daniel Kruse
Playtales: Pack A of 4
A wide-ranging series introducing readers to a range of popular arts topics, from literature to graffiti and dance to movie special effects. Each title includes ideas for classroom activities and discussion ideas.
Festivals of the World: Mexico (Cased)
Star Files
"Raintree Freestyle" is a new, eye-catching range of colourful non-fiction books for the less able and reluctant reader, aged between 11-14. Designed for students with a reading age of 8 and 9 years old, these high interest books will enable readers to encounter curriculum-linked topics at an appropriate reading level. This high interest series looks at the life and work of popular figures in TV, music and films. Using a 'how they got famous' approach, each title reveals stories and examples fro...
Maria Tallchief (Native American Biographies (Enslow))
by Paul Lang
Tells the story of ballerina Maria Tallchief, focusing on her Native American background and her rise to fame with the New York City Ballet.