Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Plats på scen by Michelle Magorian Plats på scen by Michelle Magorian. Goodnight Mister Tom and Back Home. Claire Wilson Email via Safae El-Ouahabi Rogers, Coleridge and White Literary Agency 20 Powis Mews London W11 1JN Tel: 020 7221 3717 Fax: 020 7229 9084. Agent for teenage and adult novels. The Hollis Family Trilogy: Cuckoo in the Nest, A Spoonful of Jam and Impossible! Looking for the Diamond and Just Henry A Little Love Song and Broken Soil. Olivia Martin United Agents 12 – 26 Lexington Street London WJF 0LE Email via: Olivia Martin Tel: 020 3214 0778. Michelle Magorian. Michelle Magorian was born in Portsmouth, England, and grew up in such diverse places as Perth, Australia, and Singapore. She now makes her home in London. An actress, dancer, and writer by profession, Ms. Magorian has worked with numerous touring and repertory companies, and spent two years training as a mime at Marcel Marceau's world-renowned L'Ecole Intenationale de Mime in Paris, France. An absorbing interest in the history and nature of children's books led her to try her hand at writing for younger readers. Her first book, Good Night, Mr. Tom , grew out of a short story she had written about the meeting of the two main characters. Books. A Spoonful of Jam. Author: Michelle Magorian Publisher: Farshore Interest age: 9-12 Reading age: 10+ To avoid a gang of bullies during the summer holidays, 12-year-old Elsie eagerly accepts a role in a play at the local theatre. Goodnight Mister Tom. Author: Michelle Magorian Publisher: Puffin Interest age: 9+ Reading age: 10+ Willie Beech, a lonely and deprived child, is evacuated to a tiny English village just before the Second World War, and finds himself living with reclusive widower Thomas Oakley. Just Henry. Author: Michelle Magorian Publisher: Farshore Interest age: 11+ Reading age: 11+ Film fanatic Henry Dodge lives in post-war Sternsea with his fractured family. His father died a hero, saving a deserter's life. The Front Room. Author: Michelle Magorian Illustrator: Vladimir Stankovic Publisher: Barrington Stoke Interest age: 10+ Reading age: 7+ Hannah and her brother Benjy are on holiday. But instead of relaxing, Hannah is terrified: convinced there's something dreadful in her room. The suspense builds chillingly in this pared-down, atmospheric ghost story. Researching Michelle Magorian. Research the background of Michelle Magorian using the links below. We hope you find this information useful! 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Michelle trained for the theatre at the Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama in the late sixties and at Marcel Marceau’s L’École Internationale de Mime in Paris. She has a postgraduate Certificate in Film Studies (BFI/London University), an Honorary Doctorate (Portsmouth University) and has been made a Fellow of Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance. Her first novel Goodnight Mister Tom has won awards in the UK, America and Australia and has been translated into over eleven languages, the most recent being Turkish and Chinese and has been adapted as a radio series in Sweden and Norway. A shortened version has been read as an audio book by Patrick Malahide and in full for the RNIB by Christopher Saul. As Mikki Magorian she has performed in plays, musicals and one-woman shows, has written the book and lyrics for the musical version of Goodnight Mister Tom (Composer Gary Carpenter), Sea Change (Composer Stephen Keeling), Tinsel ( Composer Bob Buckley) and Hello Life! ( Composer Alexander L’Estrange). A few years after Goodnight Mister Tom was performed in Manchester and Ipswich, it was screened on television starring the late John Thaw, winning seven television awards including a BAFTA. A play version of it opened at Chichester Festival Theatre with Oliver Ford Davies as Mister Tom before going on a regional tour. The cast received wonderful reviews and standing ovations in the fourteen theatres where they appeared. Behind the scenes, the four-part dramatisation of Back Home was broadcast again on Radio 4 Extra while Mikki was commuting to the Audio GO studio in Bath where she was being recorded reading, another of her books A Little Love Song . The play toured again with David Troughton playing Mister Tom. Her other novels are Cuckoo in the Nest, A Spoonful of Jam, (Third in the Irish Best Seller list) Just Henry (a Costa Award winner) and Impossible! (nominated for a CILIP Carnegie Medal). Just Henry was made into a ninety-minute drama by ITV Productions with a talented cast including Josh Bolt, Sheila Hancock, Dean Andrews, and Barbara Flynn. It was chosen as one of Radio Times’ 12 Christmas Cracker treats. An adaptation of Back Home was made for television twice. The first one, starring Hayley Mills won the Gold Award at the New York Film and Television Festival in 1990. Michelle has just finished two new books, one for young people and one for adults. Magorian, Michelle 1947- (Michelle Jane Magorian) Born 1947, in Portsmouth, England; married, 1987; children: two sons. Education: Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama, diploma, 1969; University of London, certificate in film studies, 1984; attended L'Ècole Internationale de Mime, 1969-70. Hobbies and other interests: Reading. ADDRESSES: Agent— Patricia White, Rogers, Coleridge & White, 20 Powis Mews, London W11 1JN, England. CAREER: Writer and actress. Appeared in several television programs and the 1980 film McVicar; performed in mime shows; performed in repertory productions for more than fifteen years. AWARDS, HONORS: Carnegie Medal commendation, Library Association, 1981, children's book award, International Reading Association, and British Guardian Award for Children's Literature, 1982, citation as "one of the nation's 100 best-loved novels" by the British public as part of The Big Read campaign, British Broadcasting Corp., 2005, and South Carolina Young Adult Book Award, all for Good Night, Mr. Tom; American Library Association, citation among "best books for young adults," 1982, for Good Night, Mr. Tom, and 1984, for Back Home, selected as "top choice," 1992, for Not a Swan; West Australian Young Readers' Book Award, Library Association of Australia, 1983, for Good Night, Mr. Tom, and 1987, for Back Home; received honorary doctorate, 2005. WRITINGS: Good Night, Mr. Tom (young adult novel), Kestrel (London, England), 1981, Harper (New York, NY), 1982. Back Home (young adult novel), Harper (New York, NY), 1984. Waiting for My Shorts to Dry (poetry for young children), illustrated by Jean Baylis, Kestrel (London, England), 1989. Who's Going to Take Care of Me? (juvenile picture book), illustrated by James Graham Hale, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 1990. A Little Love Song (novel), Methuen (London, England), 1991, published as Not a Swan, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 1992. Orange Paw Marks (poetry for children), illustrated by Jean Baylis, Kestrel (London, England), 1991. Jump! (juvenile picture book), illustrated by Jan Ormerod, Walker Books (New York, NY), 1992. In Deep Water (short stories), Viking (New York, NY), 1992. Cuckoo in the Nest (novel), Methuen (London, England), 1994. Spoonful of Jam (novel), Methuen (London, England), 1998. (Librettist and lyricist) Goodnight Mister Tom (musical play; based on her young adult novel), music by Gary Carpenter, Joseph Weinberger (London, England), 2001. Be Yourself (short stories), Egmont (London, England), 2003. Author of libretto (with Peter Venner) for Sea Change (musical play), composed by Stephen Keeling; librettist and lyricist, Tinsel (musical play; originally titled "Canapés for Company" ), composed by Robert Buckley; librettist (with Heather Cairncross), Hello Life! (solo jazz musical), composed by Alexander Le Strange, first performed at Buxton Festival, 2002; contributor of lyrics to the musical play Café Diablo, composed by Robert Buckley, performed in the Netherlands, 2005; also author of television scripts. Work represented in anthologies, including They Wait and Other Stories, compiled by Lance Salway, illustrated by Jill Bennet, Pepper Press, 1983; Guardian Angels, compiled by Stephanie Nettell, illustrated by Mike Daley, Viking Kestrel (London, England), 1987; You're Late Dad, edited by Tony Bradman, Methuen Children's Books (London, England), 1989; Love Them, Hate Them, edited by Tony Bradman, Methuen Children's Books (London, England), 1991; and Stage Struck, edited by Jean Richardson, Hamish Hamilton (London, England), 1991. Contributor of short stories to periodicals. ADAPTATIONS: Good Night, Mr. Tom was adapted for radio in Sweden, read on radio in England, recorded as an audio book narrated by Patrick Malahide, and adapted by Brian Finch as a television drama. Back Home was adapted as a television drama on two different occasions, first by David Wood in 1989 and later by Finch, adapted for a British radio reading, and recorded as an audio book by Stephanie Cole in 2004. Stories from In Deep Water were adapted for British radio. SIDELIGHTS: Michelle Magorian began her literary career by writing short stories in her spare time. Eventually, she decided to attempt a children's novel, and three years later Good Night, Mr. Tom was published. Both Good Night, Mr. Tom and Back Home depict the disruption to the lives of their protagonists caused by World War II. In each work, a resolution is achieved through trust and communication with an older character. Critics have cited Magorian's novels for their believable characterizations, mature subject matter, and accurate portraits of England and America during the 1940s. Good Night, Mr. Tom grew out of a short story about two characters: Tom, a reclusive widower, and Willie, a young boy sent to live with Tom during the war. Although she was born after World War II ended, the author researched the era to provide her book with authentic details. The author explained that it took three years to write Good Night, Mr. Tom because of her theater work. Magorian commented: "The story is about how [Mr. Tom] and Willie both change through living together." While performing research for Good Night, Mr. Tom, Magorian unearthed a photograph that would haunt her and become the basis for her second young adult novel, Back Home. The photograph depicted a group of English children returning to England after a five-year stay in America during World War II. Magorian noticed that they looked "Americanized" and wondered how they coped with their reintegration into British society. Back Home is the story of Rusty, an adolescent who has spent the war years with relatives in America. The story focuses on how Rusty adapts to postwar England. The story also focuses on Peggy, Rusty's mother, who discovered "new strengths and abilities" during the war and who subsequently has a more liberal view regarding traditional gender roles for her and her children, according to Caroline C. Hunt in Twentieth- Century Young Adult Writers. "Although all of … Magorian's young adult novels take place during World War II, their subjects would have been unmentionable in juvenile fiction of the 1940s: child abuse, illegitimacy, sexuality, gender roles, and class differences," suggested Hunt. "Yet these are not harsh books, thanks to Magorian's engaging protagonists, her sensitive yet powerful writing style, and her emotional honesty." BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES: BOOKS. Twentieth-Century Young Adult Writers, St. James Press (Detroit, MI), 1994. PERIODICALS. Booklist, August, 1992, Karen Hutt, review of Not a Swan, p. 2005; April 1, 1999, Hazel Rochman, review of Good Night, Mr. Tom, p. 1429. Commonweal, March 23, 1984, review of Good Night, Mr. Tom, p. 177. Horn Book, June, 1982, review of Good Night, Mr. Tom, pp. 299-300; January-February, 1985, Nancy C. Hammond, review of Back Home, pp. 60-61; January-February, 1991, Carolyn K. Jenks, review of Who's Going to Take Care of Me?, p. 58. New Yorker, December 6, 1982, Faith McNulty, review of Good Night, Mr. Tom, p. 192. New York Times Book Review, April 25, 1982, Selma G. Lanes, review of Good Night, Mr. Tom, p. 34. Publishers Weekly, October 26, 1984, review of Back Home, p. 105; July 20, 1992, review of Not a Swan, pp. 251-252. School Library Journal, April 15, 1982, review of Good Night, Mr. Tom, p. 73; August, 1983, review of Good Night, Mr. Tom, p. 27; October, 1984, Lillian N. Gerhardt, review of Back Home, p. 169; September, 1992, Lucinda Lockwood, review of Not a Swan, p. 278. Michelle Magorian. Michelle trained for the theatre at the Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama in the late sixties and at Marcel Marceau’s L’École Internationale de Mime in Paris. She has a postgraduate Certificate in Film Studies (BFI/London University), an Honorary Doctorate (Portsmouth University) and is a Fellow of The Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance. Her first novel Goodnight Mister Tom has won awards in the UK, America and Australia and has been translated into eleven languages. It has been read on the radio and as an audio book by Patrick Malahide.It was screened on television starring the late John Thaw, winning seven television awards including a BAFTA. As Mikki Magorian she has performed in plays, musicals and one-woman shows, has written lyrics for composers Gary Carpenter (for the musical version of Goodnight Mister Tom ) Stephen Keeling, Bob Buckley and Alexander L’Estrange. In 2011 Goodnight Mister Tom celebrated its 30 th anniversary and was brought out in a special Puffin edition alongside Back Home. This year both books will be coming out as Puffin Modern Classics. A stage play version of Goodnight Mister Tom opened at Chichester Festival Theatre with Oliver Ford Davies as Mister Tom before going on a regional tour. While the cast were receiving wonderful reviews and standing ovations in the fourteen theatres where they appeared, the BBC were broadcasting a ten part abridged reading of it on Radio 4 Extra and a four part dramatisation of Back Home while Mikki was commuting to the AudioGO studio in Bath where she was recording a reading of another of her books, A Little Love Song . Her other novels are Cuckoo in the Nest, A Spoonful of Jam and Just Henry. In the same year Just Henry (a Costa award winner) was made into a ninety minute drama by ITV Productions with Josh Bolt, Sheila Hancock, Dean Andrews, and Barbara Flynn. It was chosen as one of Radio Times' 12 Christmas Cracker treats and has been screened for three Christmas seasons. An adaptation of Back Home has been dramatised for television twice. The first one, starring Hayley Mills won the Gold Award at the New York Film and Television Festival in 1990. The screenplay was written by David Wood who adapted Goodnight Mister Tom as a straight play. In 2012 Goodnight Mister Tom opened in the West End and won an Olivier Award. David Wood has also been commissioned to adapt Back Home for the stageby Chichester Festival Theatre. Michelle's new book will be published by Troika Books in November. Her editor Martin West was her editor for Goodnight Mister Tom. Set in 1959 it is called Impossible! Are you a Michelle Magorian fan? 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