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    Books > Non Fiction > Reading & Writing

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    Bright Spots Journal by Chronicle Books

    $17.99 AUD

    Category: Reading & Writing

    The best part of the day is always worth remembering. This cheerful journal provides a place for readers to record and reflect on all the little things—catching the sunset, running into a friend on the street, finishing a project—that make up the bright spots in their days!

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    Fandom - Fic Writers, Vidders, Gamers, Artists, and Cosplayers by Francesca Davis DiPiazza; Shauna Lynn Panczyszyn (Illustrator)

    $36.99 AUD

    Category: Reading & Writing

    Have you ever finished a book or TV series and wished for more? Created stories, art, or videos based on a game? Dressed up as your favorite character? If so, you've entered fandom. Fan writers expand and mix up stories, like sending the Star Trek crew to Hogwarts. Cosplayers sew Star Wars and Sailor Mo on costumes, and fan filmmakers make music video tributes. Fans also enrich invented worlds with greater diversity, creating female and multiracial avatars for games peopled only with white male characters. Tour fandom's history and meet fan writers, video-makers, artists, costumers, and gamers who celebrate the things they love and shape fan communities online and in real life. ...Show more

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    Finding Your Writer's Voice by Amanda Apthorpe

    $22.50 AUD

    Category: Reading & Writing

    You have a story you want to tell and have even organised the time to do it. As you begin, your pen or fingers on the keyboard falter, like a little cough to clear your voice, and there's a nagging doubt that plagues you: Who am I to tell this story? What have I got to say? In this second volume of the Write This Way series - Finding Your Writer's Voice, Dr Amanda Apthorpe guides readers to find their authentic, dynamic voice using the successful techniques she has shared with hundreds of her writing students.This easy to follow guide, with plenty of interactive exercises, is the second step in the Write This Way journey.Subject matter tackled in Volume 2 includes: finding the writer's individual voice; identifying point of difference; tone and mood; shifting perspective; spontaneous writing; and, being open to possibilities. Next in the Write This Way series: 'Write Captivating Characters: Th e Art of Surprise'. ...Show more

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    #Hashtagaday: A Journal by Chronicle Books Staff (Created by)

    $14.99 AUD

    Category: Reading & Writing

    Built for the micro-blogging-minded writer and with space for 365 entries, this journal is the perfect way to "tag" a year of memories IRL (in real life).

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    How to Write a Drama by Megan Kopp

    $14.95 AUD

    Category: Reading & Writing | Series: Text Styles Ser.

    A drama is a story that is experienced by an audience as a performance. In this engaging title, readers will explore acts, dialogue, stage direction, and other elements that define this genre. Mentor texts and writing prompts guide readers as they compose their own show-stopping dramas.

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    How to Write an Adventure Story by Natalie Hyde

    $14.95 AUD

    Category: Reading & Writing | Series: Text Styles Ser.

    Adventure stories are exciting stories that take readers on a journey out of the ordinary and into the dangerous unknown. This action-packed book introduces young writers to the elements of an adventure story and provides fun ideas for writing a daring tale of one's own!

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    Literally: Amazing English Words and Where They Came From by Patrick Skipworth

    $27.99 AUD

    Category: Reading & Writing

    Did you know that English words come from all over the world and that their meanings have changed along their journey? Our word 'zero' comes from the Arabic word for empty space. 'Companion' is from the Latin for with bread. With simple descriptions and dazzling, evocative and witty illustrations, this is a fascinating introduction to the rich history and cultural diversity of our language.   ...Show more

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    Lost in Translation by Ella Frances Sanders

    $24.99 AUD

    Category: Reading & Writing

    Did you know that the Japanese have a word to express the way sunlight filters through the leaves of trees? Or that there's a Swedish word that means a traveller's particular sense of anticipation before a trip? Lost in Translation brings the nuanced beauty of language to life with 50 beautiful ink ill ustrations. The words and definitions range from the lovely, such as goya, the Urdu word to describe the transporting suspension of belief that can occur in good storytelling, to the funny, like the Hawaiian pana po'o, which describes the act of scratching your head to remember something you've forgotten. This is a collection is full of surprises that will make you savour the wonderful, elusive, untranslatable words that make up a language. ...Show more

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    On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King

    $22.99 AUD

    Category: Reading & Writing

    Damien Cave: (New York Times bureau chief in Sydney & friend of Bookoccino) "Not many books about writing manage to be both as practical and entertaining as this one. Even if you've never read a Stephen King novel, the insights he shares will change how you read and write (and maybe how you li ve)."   Immensely helpful and illuminating to any aspiring writer, Stephen King's critically lauded, classic bestseller shares the experiences, habits, and convictions that have shaped him and his work.   "Long live the King" hailed Entertainment Weekly upon publication of Stephen King's On Writing. Part memoir, part master class by one of the bestselling authors of all time, this superb volume is a revealing and practical view of the writer's craft, comprising the basic tools of the trade every writer must have. King's advice is grounded in his vivid memories from childhood through his emergence as a writer, from his struggling early career to his widely reported, near-fatal accident in 1999--and how the inextricable link between writing and living spurred his recovery. Brilliantly structured, friendly and inspiring, On Writing will empower and entertain everyone who reads it--fans, writers, and anyone who loves a great story well told. ...Show more

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    Raising Readers: How to Nurture a Child's Love of Books by Megan Daley

    $27.95 AUD

    Category: Reading & Writing | Reading Level: 0

    Some kids refuse to read, others won?t stop - not even at the dinner table! Either way, many parents question the best way to support their child?s literacy journey. When can you start reading to your child? How do you find that special book to inspire a reluctant reader? How can you tell if a book is a ge appropriate? What can you do to keep your tween reading into their adolescent years? Award-winning teacher librarian Megan Daley has the answers to all these questions and more. She unpacks her fifteen years of experience into this personable and accessible guide, enhanced with up-to-date research and first-hand accounts from well-known Australian children?s authors. It also contains practical tips, such as suggested reading lists and instructions on how to run book-themed activities.Raising Readersis a must-have guide for parents and educators to help the children in their lives fall in love with books. ...Show more

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    Sh*t Rough Drafts by Paul Laudiero

    $19.95 AUD

    Category: Reading & Writing

    Sh*t Rough Drafts collects imagined misguided early drafts of classic books, screenplays, and contemporary literature, creating visions of alternate works that would exist had the authors not come to their senses. What if F. Scott Fitzgerald had gone with the title The Coolest Gatsby? How would The Hung er Games change if Peeta were armed only with blueberry muffins? If the Man of Steel's S stood for Sexyman? MacBeth, Moby Dick, Harry Potter, Sense and Sensibility, The Lord of the Rings, and many more are each presented as if they were the actual typed or handwritten pages by the authors themselves, revealing the funny and frightful works they might have been with a little less capable judgment. ...Show more

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    The Thing the Book - A Monument to the Book as Object by John Herschendand

    $25.00 AUD

    Category: Reading & Writing

    What exactly is a book? This wildly inventive and thought-provoking volume asks that question of more than 30 of today's top creative visionaries, from Ed Ruscha to Miranda July, John Baldessari to Jonathan Lethem. Each traditional element of a book, from endpapers to footnotes, is assigned to a differe nt artist or writer invited to use the space as a creative playground. The result is a collaborative group art project like no other. A ribbon bookmark by David Shrigley, page numbers by Tauba Auerbach, endnotes by Rick Moody, each contribution surprising and brilliant. This one-of-a-kind book will entrance anyone who appreciates art, literature and the surprising possibilities that emerge when the two collide. ...Show more

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