{"id":3355,"date":"2016-11-15T15:58:56","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T15:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/?p=3355"},"modified":"2016-11-15T15:58:56","modified_gmt":"2016-11-15T15:58:56","slug":"miranda-walkers-new-version-of-the-secret-garden-is-officially-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/2016\/11\/15\/miranda-walkers-new-version-of-the-secret-garden-is-officially-launched\/","title":{"rendered":"Miranda Walker&#8217;s New Version of the Secret Garden Is Officially Launched"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>UoG Creative Writing lecturer Miranda Walker recently launched her latest work: a new graphic-text version of <em>The Secret Garden, <\/em>created in collaboration with artist\u00a0<em>Zosia Dzierzawska<\/em>.\u00a0 Miranda&#8217;s colleagues, students, and many members of the public attended the launch at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.waterstones.com\/bookshops\/cheltenham\">Waterstones <\/a>in Cheltenham, where they were treated to a performed reading by actors from The Everyman and a Q&amp;A session with Miranda.\u00a0 The book is perfect for young readers\u00a0and can be picked up at your local <a href=\"https:\/\/www.waterstones.com\/book\/project-x-origins-graphic-texts-dark-blue-book-band-oxford-level-16-the-secret-garden\/frances-hodgson-burnett\/frances-hodgson-burnett\/9780198367574\">Waterstones <\/a>or online, at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Project-Origins-Graphic-Texts-Oxford\/dp\/0198367570\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1479225197&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=secret+garden+graphic+text\">the place we don&#8217;t name<\/a>.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s the official press release, which sums it up perfectly&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>The Secret Garden as you have never seen it before&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>When Mary goes to live with her uncle, she discovers a secret, locked garden.\u00a0 Will she ever find the way in \u2013 and what other secrets does Misselthwaite Manor hold?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This stunning new graphic text adaptation, written by Miranda Walker, illustrated by Zosia Dzierzawska and published by Oxford University Press, is an exciting fresh take on the much-loved children\u2019s classic.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>It is part of a unique new series of Project X graphic texts, which hold great appeal for today\u2019s young readers.\u00a0 Alongside, graphic texts are an effective way for children to achieve higher-level reading comprehension including inference, challenging vocabulary, critical thinking and visual literacy.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UoG Creative Writing lecturer Miranda Walker recently launched her latest work: a new graphic-text version of The Secret Garden, created in collaboration with artist\u00a0Zosia Dzierzawska.\u00a0 Miranda&#8217;s colleagues, students, and many members of the public attended the launch at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[188,233,291,366],"class_list":["post-3355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-launches","tag-miranda-walker","tag-publications-and-performances","tag-the-secret-garden"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}