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Noah’s Gold by Frank Cottrell-Boyce

May 10, 2021 By achuka Leave a Comment

ACHUKA Book of the Day Mon 10 May 2021
Times Children’s Book of the Week 8 May 2021
Sunday Times Children’s Book of the Week 9 May 2021

Waterstones

“It’s not just the students that need locating, of course, but the sense of adventure that screens can sometimes cauterise (Noah’s discovery of a treasure map helps). The great skill here is that Cottrell-Boyce manages to convey all this through laughs in what, in lesser hands, might have felt like a chastising sermon from an older generation.” Nicolette Jones Sunday Times
“An adventure whose wit and energy recalls E Nesbit’s immortal Oswald Bastable, this is an absolute tonic about using your head instead of relying on technology, or adults.” New Statesman
““I think children’s books engage with the big things: death, or loss, growing up or responsibility. There are powerful forces telling children the world is not a wonderful place. But I think as a children’s writer, you have a duty to provide hope.” Frank Cottrell Boyce, Church Times

A new novel from Frank Cottrell-Boyce is always something to shout about.

When eleven-year old Noah sneaks along on his big sister’s geography field trip, everything goes wrong. Six kids are marooned on an uninhabited island. Their teacher vanishes. They’re hungry. Their phones don’t work and Noah has broken the internet. There’s no way of contacting home… Sounds like last night’s dream (I’m not kidding)!

Then Noah discovers a treasure map and the gang go in search of gold.

Fully illustrated in black and white throughout by Steven Lenton.
Follow Steven on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/steven_lenton/

Frank has uploaded some excellent content during the pandemic, and was particularly active while schools were closed to most children.
https://www.instagram.com/frank_cottrell_boyce/

Here is a moving address he gave a few months ago in the concert room at St. George’s Hall, Liverpool.

Filed Under: Blog, BookOfTheDay, Books, Fiction Tagged With: adventure, gang, island, marooned, phones, treasure

French court bans Yan Morvan’s latest photobook – British Journal of Photography

July 27, 2013 By achuka Leave a Comment

A French court has ordered photographer Yan Morvan to withdraw his photobook Gangs Story from bookstores and to pay a €5000 fine after it found that he had breached one of his subjects’ right to control his own image

via French court bans Yan Morvan’s latest photobook – British Journal of Photography.

“Basically, in this case, two opposing rights were pitted against one another – the right to control your own image and the right to inform,” Morvan told BJP in a phone interview. “In this case, the right to control your own image, which was introduced by French minister Elisabeth Guigou in 2000, won over the right to inform. There are 250 images in this book, what this sentence means is that 250 people could sue me. In essence, this sentence is a ban on a photographer’s right to work.”

Filed Under: Blog, Photography/Art Tagged With: France, freedom, gang, photographer, photography, rights, street

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