Denny Taylor

Rosie's Umbrella

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She died within seconds of falling, Rosie's Umbrella begins in 1955. She could see the shadows that went with the echoes of screams from up above, but the patterns of light and the fading sounds were nothing more than that. There was not time to think about them, to name them or to say, 'There's lovely', but that is how she felt in those last moments of her life as she fell down the old mine shaft. Living a life of privilege in Boston in 1995, Rosie Llewelyn knows nothing about Wales or coal mining or about the child who fell down an old mine shaft. She should, because the death of the child, so many years ago, will ch… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-942146-02-5
EAN: 9781942146025
Produktnummer: 17488337
Verlag: Garn Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Seitenangabe: 352 S.
Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.8 cm 510 g
Abbildungen: Paperback
Gewicht: 510

Über den Autor

Denny Taylor believes learning to read can be joyful and fun, even for children who are struggling readers. In five decades of teaching she has never administered a test. She began teaching 5, 6, and 7 year olds in the East End of London in 1968. She has taught many children to read, and many beginning teachers how to teach reading.Taylor's books about children and reading include: Family Literacy (1983), Family Storybook Reading (1986), Growing Up Literate (1988); From the Child's Point of View (1993), Toxic Literacies (1996), Beginning to Read and the Spin Doctors of Science (1998), Save Our Children, Save Our School, Pearson Broke the Golden Rule (2014), Teaching Without Testing: Assessing the Complexity of Children's Literacy Learning (2017), the YA novel Rosie's Umbrella (2015), and the illustrated children's beginning reading book Rat-a-tat-tat! I've Lost my Cat! (2015).She is the recipient of the MLA Mina P. Shaughnessy Award and has been nominated for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. She was inducted into the IRA's Reading Hall of Fame in 2004.