Pupils from Year 5 at Woodbridge Primary School meet every couple of weeks with Catherine Larner to discuss a story selected for them from Young Browsers children's bookshop in the town.
Previous titles have included Broken Glass by Sally Grindley, The London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd and Millions by Frank Cottrell Boyce.
Today the children - Harriet, Tom, Daniel, Ben, Charlotte, Shannon and Venetia - are talking about Noah Barleywater Runs Away by John Boyne.
The book is about an eight-year-old boy called Noah who gets up very early one morning and runs away from home. He enters a forest and meets some very odd people who do quite strange things. Noah eventually meets a magical toymaker and starts to reveal what is troubling him. The book is a funny, magical modern fairy tale, and while there is a little bit of sadness, it is a story of hope.
Woodbridge Primary School book group pictured with teacher Jo Seller
Pupils from Year 5 at Woodbridge Primary School meet every couple of weeks with Catherine Larner to discuss a story selected for them from Young Browsers children's bookshop in the town.
Previous titles have included Broken Glass by Sally Grindley, The London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd and I-Spy The Constantinople Caper by Graham Marks. Today the children - Harriet, Tom, Daniel, Ben, Charlotte, Shannon and Venetia - are talking about Millions by Frank Cottrell Boyce.
The book is about Damian, who lives with his father and brother. Damian's mum has recently died and he has become obsessed with the stories of the saints as he tries to make sense of what has happened to her. One evening he can't sleep and goes into the garden. As he's sitting there, a bag seems to fall from the sky and land at his feet. Inside the bag are thousands and thousands of notes. Damian shares the find with his older brother who believes the money has been stolen but will soon be worthless as the national currency is to change to Euros. The boys decide to spend all the money before the changeover date, and the story explores what happens when they try to do so.
My name is Edward Chilvers and I am delighted to have been given the opportunity to be part of Deben Radio. As an author and publisher with my own company, One Fine Day Reading, I am especially passionate about promoting local talent and giving a voice to those with a story to tell. In a new series of interviews I will be going around the area meeting writers, authors and poets to learn more about ther lives and what inspires them. For my first programme I interviewed Paul Strugnell from Hasketon, a former helicoptor pilot in the Army Air Corp whose distinguished career encompassed Northern Ireland, Rhodesia and West Berlin. Paul's book, Hawkeye: The Story of an Army Pilot is available for £9.99 from www.onefinedayreading.co.uk
Barry Burns interviews David Albert, Author of Tentacle:Chameleon 2012.
David Albert is the author of Tentacle : Chameleon: 2012. David has previously had several published works, but this is tipped for the bestseller list and the publisher has signed him up for the Tentacle trilogy.
Tentacle is an organisation, run by multi-billionnaires, which has groomed individuals to become their agents to assist in their ambition to overthrow corrupt governments. Some of Tentacle’s main agents are Blanco and Negro Hamilton and Nandi.
The theme of the first in the series, Chameleon 2012, is the race against time to prevent Tentacle’s planned attack on the 2012 games. Government agents, including Alex Mason [think Bond mixed with Remington Steele], track Tentacle down, but the race is on for them to try to prevent the devastation which is inevitable.
Who will win the Chameleon : 2012 game? Who do you want to win?
Fun facts about Tentacle: Chameleon : 2012
There is no pagination- because readers will read to the end of the chapter. Readers have reported back how much they like this, they get to use bookmarks again!
There are no chapter numbers- the chapters are characters’ names, or places.
The first printed batch had a printing error on the back cover- 2010 games instead of 2012.
The Tentacle ‘agents’ are on facebook- ‘Tentacle Chameleon’ and regularly discuss what they are doing.
Before their first meeting the publisher told David “bring the whole b****y manuscript down” and slammed the phone down on him when he’d asked for the third time if she just meant the synopsis.
The hardback copy is printed on one of the best quality papers and double spaced, with a large font size. A very unusual move for a publisher [it costs them more!].
The head of Tentacle tweets about his meetings- twitter TC_2012.
David Albert developed the characters for over 10 years.
The paperback has two endings, so readers can vote for their favourite. We can’t tell you what page,because there is no pagination, but we can tell you the titles of the chapters are ‘ending 1’ and ‘ending 2’.
Chameleon 2012 is out now and available in hardcover, paperback and Kindle e-book.
There is no restriction on age when it comes to people wanting to gather together to talk about enjoying a good book. At Woodbridge Primary School a group of pupils has been meeting regularly with Catherine Larner to discuss a story selected for them from Young Browsers children's bookshop in the town.
Previous titles have included Broken Glass by Sally Grindley and Cosmic by Frank Cottrell Boyce. Today the children - Andrea, Angus, Josh, Katie, Oliver, Raffy, Rikki and Thomas, all from year five - are talking about The London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd.
This is an award-winning book which centres on the famous London visitor attraction, where a young boy disappears. His family are bewildered - how could he have vanished when his young cousins saw him enter the pod yet he wasn't there with the other tourists when it came back down to the ground? Feeling worried and responsible, the brother and sister try to solve the mystery.
