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- Title
- 'Oh No!' yelled Zac: tension, humour and resolution in children's story
- Author(s)
- Carthew, Mark
- Abstract
- Using tension to create effect is part of the writers’ tool kit in both adult and children’s literature. This practice led workshop is designed to provide insight into the way children’s book creators use story, visual narrative and other mechanism’s to create and resolve tension; in so doing making imagined world’s exhilarating, ‘safe’ and satisfying. The session will explore the picture books The Gobbling Tree and Five Little Owls, illustrated sound story The Hairy Toe and play script version of Michael Rosen’s poem Kaleidoscope to reflect on the way these texts use tension and humour as part of the tension / resolution cycle.
- Publication type
- Conference paper
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology
- Source
- Paper presented at 'Fear and safety in children’s literature', the 20th Biennial Congress for the International Research Society for Children Literature, Brisbane, Australia, 04-08 July 2011
- Publication year
- 2011
- Keyword(s)
- Children's books; Children’s literature; Humour; Tension; Visual narrative; Writing for children
- Publisher
- IRSCL
- Publisher URL
- http://irscl2011.com/
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2011 Mark Carthew.
- Peer reviewed
