Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Caroline Lawrence Author Interview Nov 2001

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[For the first unit in the literacy file of the LCP Literacy Schemes of Work - 'Stories with Historical Settings' - based around th...
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Thursday, September 16, 2010

Sam & Flavius Clemens

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One of Mark Twain's favorite books was Suetonius' Lives of the Caesars . According to Twain's biographer, Albert Bigelow Paine,...
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Tuesday, September 07, 2010

Buried Alive?

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or "The Case of the Bleeding Corpse" In the winter of 1861, failed prospector Alf Doten was living in Milpitas, California, try...
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Friday, September 03, 2010

Territorial Enterprise

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The Territorial Enterprise Newspaper The Territorial Enterprise was a famous newspaper in the Nevada town of Virginia City. It was est...
Monday, August 16, 2010

Dysfunctional Detectives

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According to the Pulitzer-prize winning screenwriter David Mamet, "Asperger's syndrome helped make the movies." In his collec...
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Saturday, August 14, 2010

Demon in the Toilet!

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It is a basic human instinct to fear things that dwell in the dark. This goes right back to our hunter-gatherer days and is hard-wired into...
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Tuesday, August 03, 2010

Listening Books

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Near Charles Dickens Primary School, and not far from the old Marshalsea Debtors' Prison, is a blue and brick building full of sound. Th...
Friday, July 30, 2010

Friday with Sherlock

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When Arthur Conan-Doyle wrote the first Sherlock Holmes detective story in 1886, he was creating a character who would not only give pleasu...
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Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Inspiring Kidslit

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Just back from Premier Christian Radio where I was invited to talk about children's books on their Inspirational Breakfast show. Here...
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