Books and Scripts
Hazel's Books
If you cannot find Hazel Edwards' titles in your local bookstore, they can be ordered online from The Australian Bookshop Online.
Australian Online Bookshop contact details - Fax: 61 8 9377 0991 or Email: bob@bookworm.com.au.
See Hazel's 12 most popular books
Across-media Antarctica includes a picture book (with flaps), novel, electronic and print diary, Braille, Auslan signed DVD, classroom playscripts and Teachers' Notes.
Edwards' adult non-fiction is about workstyles or motives and is often researched on site. Most are humorous 'How to's, with analysis and strategies such as in 'Difficult Personalities' or 'Committee-itis'. Others relate to writing skills like 'Non Boring Travel Writing' or 'The Business of Writing for Young People', or the ex-blog 'Cycling Solo:Ireland to Istanbul'.
Research for fact and fiction overlap, as between 'Writing a Non Boring Family History' and the YA novel 'Fake ID' which is a cyber-family-history-mystery. Fiction, whether for new or independent readers or young adults, is about a character solving a problem. The Easy fiction, often humorous, is for new chapter book readers or those for whom English is a second language. Sometimes the character is an animal, but the human characteristics are identifiable.
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Hazel's Classroom Scripts
Acting out in the classroom has multiple value. Apart from allowing for improvisation, reading experience and group activities, the content provokes discussion amongst actors and audience. Active students have fun, and exercise as well as using all senses! Often scripts can be used more than once, and provide models for students' own script writing. When content links to curriculum, such as Antarctica, students gain from new perspectives on an issue, especially when characters may be non human, like icebergs!
Plays offer triple value: a chance to read aloud, to act and for the audience to think about the ideas content. Classroom scripts need a range of roles including elastic choruses, humour, an age-specific subject and ideas to discuss while rehearsing. All scripts have been trialled in schools. Appropriate for male or female casts, with minimal props or elaborate productions. Each class could produce a different play and combine in a Hippo-Fest, Embarrassing Moments or Antarctic-themed performance.
- Primary Drama Resource Book
- Excuse Me! Outrageous Plays
- Cake Eating Hippo Plays
- Right or Wrong? Plays to make you think
- Creative Kaleidoscope
- Grandma Leaps the Antarctic - Auslan Signed DVD
Sometimes scripts do not have a book cover, they are just performed! Some have been performed on stage, TV or radio.