LoveReading4Kids Says
LoveReading4Kids Says
A favourite of August 2011 Guest Editor Julie Hearn.
To writing a moving and funny book, especially for children, about as serious a subject as cancer is a remarkable achievement. Two Weeks with the Queen is a remarkable example of such a thing. Sent away from his home in Australia to stay with his aunt ands uncle in London while his parents nurse his brother Luke through the final stages of cancer, Colin sets out on a mission. If only he can reach the Queen, he reasons, she’ll be able to put him in touch with the best cancer doctor in the world and Luke will be made well. But nothing is so straightforward. Instead, Colin meets some remarkable people and, through them, he is able to share some of the universal grief of loosing a person you love. Profoundly moving, deeply serious but also wickedly funny. Click here to see other Morris Gleitzman titles.
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Two Weeks with the Queen Synopsis
When Colin's brother Luke becomes seriously ill with leukemia, he is determined to get the best help possible. He is sent to stay with relatives and attempts to go to the top - the Queen first, and failing her, the best cancer doctor in the world.
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9780141303000 |
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4th March 1999 |
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Morris Gleitzman |
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Penguin Books Ltd |
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Paperback |
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128 pages |
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About Morris Gleitzman
One of Australia's, and now the world's, best-known and loved children's authors, Morris Gleitzman tackles tough subjects in a funny and offbeat way . He has never set out to write "issues books" and says that his writing is as much for himself as for his readers.
THE BASICS
Born: Sleaford, Lincolnshire, January 9th 1953
Jobs: Paperboy, Shelf-Stacker, Department Store Santa Claus, Frozen Chicken Defroster, Assistant to Fashion Designer, Rolling-Stock Unhooker in a Sugar Mill, TV Comedy Writer, Magazine Columnist
Lives: Victoria
First Book: The Other Facts of Life, 1985
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Julie Hearn says:
It is a rare writer who can make readers giggle, and then move them to tears, in the space of a few paragraphs. Morris Gleitzman has that knack, and makes it seem so easy (grrr!). I read Two Weeks with the Queen while studying children’s literature as part of a degree course. It gave me valuable insights into writing about sensitive issues (in this case terminal illness) for younger readers. I passed my copy on to the eleven year-old son of a friend of mine – a boy who “hated” reading. He read until his eyes stung, unable to stop until he knew how things turned out for Colin and his brother (the ending, by the way, is exactly right; positive without hitting the ‘happy ever after’ note that a less skilful writer might have gone for). My friend’s son demanded more Gleitzman. “Have you read Bumface?” he asked me. I hadn’t. “Read Bumface,” he said. “It’s ace.” I got hold of a copy of Bumface. I read the first page – and laughed so much my ribs twanged.
