Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 808
EAN num: 9780007130863
ISBN number: 0007130864
Label: Collins Educational
Manufacturer: Collins Educational
Page Count: 96
Printing Date: May 20, 2002
Publishing house: Collins Educational
Age index: Young Adult
Sale Popularity Level: 4057108
Studio: Collins Educational
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A stunning adaptation for schools by the Children's Laureate Anne Fine, of her much-loved children's novel. The Tulip Touch is the fourth of Anne Fine's adaptations to be published by Collins as part of the Plays Plus series. Why is Tulip always in trouble? And why does Natalie find Tulip's dangerous games so fascinating. A powerful story about troubled teenagers and their relationship to the adult world. The Tulip Touch is suitable for class work, drama lessons and school productions. The resource material includes advice on staging the play, ideas for improvisation arising from the script, poems and extracts from fictional and non-fictional writing. The issues of parenthood, families, growing up and peer pressure are explored through drama, discusion and written work.
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The Tulip Touch is an emotional book that teaches about friendship and what happens to kids who are bullied.This book teaches kids to speak for themselves and to not follow other who are doing bad things and encourages kids to make decisions independently. The book is well written. Anne Fine describes the scenes clearly and makes you feel like you are in the book with the character. the ending of the novel helps the reader unserstand why the horrible things that happened through this book occurred. We would recommend this book to kids and adults because adults can see what happens in a real kid's life and kids will learn to speak for themselves and to learn the dangers of bullying.
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This quiet novel is, I believe, one of Anne Fine's best. It's a balanced and sensitive exploration of friendship and families: what it means to destroy and what it is to be reborn.
Natalie, the protagonist of this novel, is a quiet and introverted child - a member of a busy hotel-manager's family, somewhat neglected. At the age of eight she meets Tulip, a bright, original outsider. From the first, Tulip enchants Natalie with her ideas for games and her spark of mischief. Natalie's parents encourage the friendship, knowing something about Tulip's dysfunctional family and miserable home life. Before long, Tulip has closed Natalie off from her schoolmates and family - Natalie, though, is happy in this unusual friendship. Yet as time passes, Tulip's streaks of malice and cruelty begin to show as her home life deteriorates.
Tulip and Natalie are the main characters in this drama: in the background we see parents, classmates, police officers and other figures, but these are generally sketches. That is my main quibble with this book: none of the characters except our central duo seem truly developed, or are sufficient to hold readers' interest. Perhaps this is intentional, but it annoyed me personally. In an interesting introduction to my edition, Anne Fine writes that Tulip and Natalie seemed to "spring to life" almost as soon as she began to write the novel. She notes that they show the qualities of a good author. Tulip is a compulsive and brilliant liar (and, Fine says, "what is a novel but a tissue of lies telling the truth?"). Also, Natalie "has the strength to look on something painful and not turn away". One of a writer's greatest and most needed qualities.
The Tulip Touch is an unusual tale, raising many moral questions - does true evil exist? Are we born with our personalities or are they shaped by our upbringing? What is evil? Why, as Natalie demands at the end of the novel, does a person's state have to become desperate before he or she is given help? Cleverly, Anne Fine (an educated, opinionated atheist who disbelieves in the concept of evil) makes clear her views while leaving the reader to decide his or her own answers to these difficult questions.
Four stars for the plot and characters, and an additional star for the fantastic descriptions found throughout the book.
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OMG THIS BOOK TOTALY SUCHS ITS SOO UGLY AND GROUSE .. EHH I HATE THIS THIS IS NOT A NICE BOOOK
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i have only read this book twice but allready it is one of my faverites. it is a book thta really draws you into the plot. it is the kind of book that stays in you mind for along time.
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I became deeply entranced in this book. The twisted storyline and intriguing characters kept me hooked throughout the book. I have read a lot of Anne Fine's books and this is definitely one of her best. You can definitely relate to the characters and how they think, when she describes how Natalie feels during the fire in the shed you can see images and imagine you are actually there. It's really very powerful. I've only read it once, but I would read it many more times.
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