Background
Eccleshare was born in Cambridge and grew up in North London, the third of four children of Colin Eccleshare, a publisher with Cambridge University Press, and Liz, a history teacher.
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JK Rowling now is half-way through a series which has taken the world by storm. Unusually, she has attracted success both in terms of massive sales figures and critical acclaim. This study will look at her books and consider some of the reasons for their phenomenal success. This will be done against a background of how Harry Potter relates to other contemporary childrenÆs books so that students and teachers can place them in the context for which they were written.This book has not been authorized by JK Rowling, her agent, or Warner Bros.
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(J.K. Rowling is half-way through a series which has taken...)
J.K. Rowling is half-way through a series which has taken the world by storm. Unusually, she has attracted success both in terms of massive sales figures and critical acclaim. This study looks at her books and considers some of the reasons for their phenomenal success. This is done against a background of how Harry Potter relates to other contemporary children's books so that students and teachers can place them in the context for which they were written.;The underlying thesis is: when J.K. Rowling wrote the first Harry Potter title and planned the rest, she drew on her considerable experience as a reader and, through her powers of story telling, created a world of her own. What was initially imitative has, with her gaining confidence, become witty pastiche (or, as it was recently described, intertextuality). This, combined with an unusual ability to tell a long story and to keep up a flow of creative invention, has enabled her to create four absorbing novels that have given story telling a good name for adults and children alike.
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Eccleshare was born in Cambridge and grew up in North London, the third of four children of Colin Eccleshare, a publisher with Cambridge University Press, and Liz, a history teacher.
She has been Children"s editor for The Guardian newspaper for more than ten years, at least from 2000. She is also an editorial contributor and advisor for the website Lovereading4kids. Eccleshare was children"s book editor of the Times Literary Supplement from 1974 to 1978.
She served as non-fiction and picture book editor at Penguin children"s imprint Puffin from 1978 to 1980, and as fiction editor at Hamish Hamilton children"s books from 1980 to 1984, before returning to freelance book reviewing.
She selected hundreds of books for Children"s of the Year from 1985 to 1993. The annual exhibition and annotated list had been established circa 1970 by the National Book League (later renamed Booktrust) and had missed one year before its 1985 resumption.
In 2000 she co-founded the Branford Boase Award for an outstanding novel for young people by a first-time writer, and continues to chair its panel of judges. At least from 2000 to 2012, she chairs the panel of three children"s writers who judge the Guardian Children"s Fiction Prize.
Eccleshare is currently children"s books editor for The Guardian newspaper, and also regularly appears on British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4"s Open Book and Front Row programmes.
In 2014 she was appointed Head of Policy and Advocacy for Public Lending Right. She was an awarded an Honorary Doctor of Letters (Doctor of Letters , Honours) by the University of Worcester in 2014.
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(J.K. Rowling is half-way through a series which has taken...)
She was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (Administration Member of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2014 Birthday Honours for services to children"s literature.