tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27643523.post3087058774718554741..comments2024-03-20T23:54:23.673-07:00Comments on The Great Raven: Frankenstein - The Bicentenary!Sue Bursztynskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09362273418897882971noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27643523.post-43342699345385339012018-01-04T12:14:35.806-08:002018-01-04T12:14:35.806-08:00Tamara, yes, some interesting books by teens. Off ...Tamara, yes, some interesting books by teens. Off the top of my head, one of them was The Outsiders by S.E Hinton, a 16 year old girl. Sonia Hartnett’s first novel was published when she was 15. Isobelle Carmody wrote the first of the Obernewtyn series when she was 14(and the last only came out a couple of years ago, and she is now middle aged, but still...). I also showed my class a book written by a 13 year old. It was a truly awful vampire novel, and read like something written by a 13 year old, IMO, but the kids liked it and so did the publishers...<br /><br />Hilary, Ada Lovelace was an amazing woman. I believe her mother brought her up to be a mathematician so she wouldn’t turn out to be a useless, no-good poet like her bum of a father. But let’s face it, maths was what she was good at anyway, and she wrote the world’s first computer program, to go with Charles Babbage’s world’s first computer. I wrote about her in my children’s book Potions To Pulsars: Women Doing Science. Sue Bursztynskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09362273418897882971noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27643523.post-73252787277831621962018-01-04T11:43:43.052-08:002018-01-04T11:43:43.052-08:00Hi Sue - yes I wrote a blog post about Mary Wollst...Hi Sue - yes I wrote a blog post about Mary Wollstonecraft back in 2011 and nearly gave a talk on her, but later on did one on Ada Lovelace ... such a fascinating set of people. Well done on inspiring your students they can write at any age ...I've never read Frankenstein - one day I need to .... cheers HilaryHilary Melton-Butcherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17596532480645510678noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27643523.post-81956017733690606992018-01-04T06:09:36.622-08:002018-01-04T06:09:36.622-08:00I love the idea of looking at all the successful b...I love the idea of looking at all the successful books written by teenagers. I bet that was some collection!Tamara Narayanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03725262301091012950noreply@blogger.com