Framed

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And the other thing is that where I live, I live on the beach near Liverpool, and someone installed a huge work of art on the beach. It was a very lonely, industrial beach, it's not attractive at all, it's just where the ships come in. And there is a promenade but it's quite wintery and windy and miserable. And someone put these statues on the beach – an artist called Antony Gormley – and since then it's been really busy and it's like there is a permanent festival going on. The minor characters are a riot. My favorite being Daft Tom, an older person (you get the idea he's in his 20's or 30's??) still obsessed with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, "what the shell" is heard throughout the book.

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a b c d Frank Cottrell Boyce (29 July 2012). "The night we saw our mad, fantastical dreams come true". The Observer. London . Retrieved 29 July 2012.Armistice Day: A Collection of Remembrance - Spark Interest and Educate Children about Historical Moments Frank Cottrell Boyce: As a book writer you get to write a story in words but when you are making a film you tell a story in pictures. I think one of the reasons I was really drawn to this story is that, if you tell a picture in a film, you get a lot of pictures to tell the story – you get 25 pictures per second. So in a film that is 25 x 60 per minute x 90 for the film, so you have do the maths, but it's a lot of pictures. This is an immensely entertaining book, about the power of art to bring about change and to redeem. It is beautifully characterised, funny and profound.

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Frank Cottrell Boyce aims this charming story of family and community life, from the perspective of a 12-year-old boy, at tweens, but it will have adults rolling with laughter. An extremely well-crafted book, with disciplined editing, which I attribute to Cottrell Boyce's first career as a screenwriter. An immensely entertaining read, with mystery, suspense, humor, and a subtle and effective argument in favor of the supreme importance of all people. Read more Frank is also a successful writer of film scripts and was the official scriptwriter for the Opening Ceremony for the 2012 Olympics, playing an important role devising the ceremony with Danny Boyle. He is also a judge for the BBC Radio 2 500 Words competition. You can read a great interview with Frank and one of his fellow judge, Francesca Simon here! In addition to original scripts, Cottrell-Boyce has also adapted novels for the screen and written children's fiction. His first novel Millions was based on his own screenplay for the film of the same name; it was published by Macmillan in 2004. Cottrell-Boyce won the annual Carnegie Medal from the British librarians, recognising it as the year's best children's book published in the U.K. [16] [17] His next novel Framed, he made the shortlist for both the Carnegie [18] and the Whitbread Children's Book Award. He adapted it as a screenplay for a 2009 BBC television film. He made the Carnegie shortlist again for Cosmic (2008). [18] In 2011, he was commissioned to write a sequel to the Ian Fleming children's book Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, [19] which was published in October 2011 as Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flies Again. [20] In addition to Coronation Street, he wrote many episodes of the soap opera Brookside, as well as its spin-offs Damon and Debbie and South. He read English at Keble College, Oxford, where he went on to earn a doctorate. He wrote criticism for the magazine Living Marxism. As a result, there was supposedly always a copy of the magazine on sale in the newsagent set of long-running British soap Coronation Street, while Cottrell-Boyce was on the writing staff of that programme.Sharing the magic of stories as part of the bedtime ritual can calm and soothe children, and ignite their imaginations.We think these books are fantastic to read together at the end of the day. On winning the prize Frank Cottrell-Boyce said: “It would be amazing to win this award with any book I'd written but it is a special joy to win it with The Unforgotten Coat, which started life not as a published book at all, but as a gift. Walker gave away thousands of copies in Liverpool - on buses, at ferry terminals, through schools, prisons and hospitals - to help promote the mighty Reader Organisation. We even had the book launch on a train. The photographs in the book, were created by my friends and neighbours - Carl Hunter and Claire Heaney. The story was based on a real incident in a school in Bootle. So everything about it comes from very close to home - even though it's a story about Xanadu! It follows Dylan the only male resident of the Welsh village of Manod and how the moving of paintings from the London's National Gallery into the quarry of the mountain in the town, leads to an attempted heist.

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Education Shed Ltd, Severn House, Severn Bridge, Riverside North, Bewdley, Worcestershire, UK, DY12 1AB It took me about a year to write 'Framed', which was longer than I thought it was going to be, because it just popped into my head that you would have one picture, one story. And I came to the gallery and looked at all the pictures, and it was like shopping – I was trying to figure out which pictures I would like in the story.You can find out a bit more about him and his Chitty Chitty Bang Bang triology at uk.chittyfliesagain.com So it was really like a collection of short stories and Dylan, who is the character who holds it all together, he came at the last minute. I knew that I had to have a little boy but he wasn't really a proper character until, as we were leaving Manod, after a couple of days, there is a garage at the end of the town and it just seemed like the loneliest place in the world for a garage because no one is going that way and I was thinking well what would it be like to live there? And that's where Dylan and his family came from. Interviewer: In 'Framed', National Gallery paintings have a large impact on the people of Manod. What do you think art is for?

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This book is categorised as a children's book, normally I am perfectly fine with reading children's books because they are fun and really entertaining. However with this book it was just too childish.Frank was asked by the Fleming Estate to write the official sequel to Ian Fleming's Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flies Again was shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny Prize in 2012. Frank Cottrell Boyce: I didn't go to the National Gallery as a child, because I don't live in London and I think I had only been once on a school trip, or something like that, before I thought of this story. I am reading this book at school with my class and i cant really understand it but it is getting kind of interesting as this is how i feel like the only girl left in wales The storage of paintings from the London National Gallery inside an abandoned mine near the tiny Welsh town of Manod, drastically changes the dreary town where it rains all the time, and alters forever the life of Manod's only boy, Dylan, who is fond of soccer (which, being the only boy, he doesn't often get to play) and cars (which, helping at his parents' gas station, he sees a lot of), but not particularly interested in paintings. Things are especially stirred up when Minnie, Dylan's criminal-mastermind-in-training sister, decides to pull the art heist of the century. This is an entertaining story full of amusing incidents, and nine year old Dylan is a hilarious narrator, who does not always have a complete grasp on the events happening around him. For instance, Dylan befriends Lester, a Londoner who is the paintings' primary caregiver, after a mixed message conversation-- Dylan was talking about the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, but Lester thought he meant the Renaissance artists, and mistakenly concluded that Dylan was a young art prodigy; further mishaps do nothing but reinforce Lester's inaccurate view. The supporting characters are all eccentric, but still realistic. The story's greatest strength, though, is the way that one by one, the people of the town (and also Lester), are inspired by art around them and slowly begin to change Manod and their lives for the better, creating a unique story about the transformational power of art. Readers ages nine through thirteen will best appreciate the book's humor. Read more Framed was shortlisted for the Blue Peter Prize 2007 'The Book I Couldn't Put Down.' and shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal