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Oxford Playscripts: The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler". Oxford University Press . Retrieved 30 April 2022. For her play based on the book Gene Kemp created a comic character, Harlequin the Joker, to tell the jokes. Themes

Motivating activities focusing on performance, close text analysis, language and structure, together with varied creative tasks The audience is always kept guessing as the book is written in such a way that we are not aware of Tyke’s gender until the second last chapter. Tyke’s behavior leads us to believe that he is a boy but is that really the case? After discovering Tyke's gender, the reader is – as Victor Watson comments in his article on multi-layered texts – "in the know", and thus the book warrants re-reading. Furthermore, he writes how the illustrations throughout the book add to this new perspective as the reader now knows the images depict a girl character. [17] Disability [ edit ] As an additional, ready-made resource to support the study of The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler as a Unit of Work / class book. That said, it was different in feel from what I was expecting. For some reason I thought that Tyke and Danny were going to be younger and a little more "Dennis the Menace" in sensibility - not that Tyke and Dennis aren't kin! - and that Danny was the POV character. The book is actually written in the first person from Tyke's POV, with a little more gravitas underlying the hi-jinks, and they're supposed to be about 12.According to Mary Cadogan in Twentieth-Century Children's Writers, "This truly innovatory book gives new dimensions to the day-school story, and an authoritative boost to feminism. More convincingly than any other juvenile book it demolishes many accepted ideas about aspirational and experiential differences between boys and girls." She added: "The exactly appropriate first person narrative is punctuated by consciously dire playground rhymes and jokes which sharpen its pacy succinctness." Brindley, Susan (2005) [First published 1994]. "Girls and literature: Promise and reality". In Brindley, Susan (ed.). Teaching English. London: Routledge. pp.214–222. ISBN 0-203-98751-9. Bittner, Robert (2016). "(Im) Possibility and (in) visibility: Arguing against 'just happens to be' in Young Adult literature". Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture. 1 (2): 199–214. doi: 10.1386/qsmpc.1.2.199_1. ISSN 2055-5695. In the story, Tyke decides to cheat on her school's annual Verbal Reasoning Test and teach Danny the answers so he will not be sent to the special school. Prater calls this action a "pupil and instructor" relationship, notable due to the fact it is between two schoolchildren rather than a teacher and pupil. [21] Throughout the book, Tyke protects and cares for Danny. Catherine Nichols writes how this kind of relationship functions as a way to demonstrate to the reader that the protagonist is a good person, rather than giving Danny more to do in the story. [15] Chivalry and heroism [ edit ] The character Danny Price is given the part of Sir Galahad in the school play and is inspired by the character's description "His strength was as the strength of ten, because his heart was pure". The influence of second-wave feminism in the portrayal of Tyke is undeniable. Tyke’s image offers a clear alternative to the sexism in popular culture. It rejects the stereotypical image of girls as feminine and passive. It eradicates accepted ideas about the differences between boys and girls.

Prater, Mary Anne (1999). "Characterization of Mental Retardation in Children's and Adolescent Literature". Education and Training in Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities. 34 (4): 418–431. JSTOR 23889041– via JSTOR. Gene Kemp was born in Wigginton, Staffordshire in 1926. She grew up near Tamworth, Staffordshire, and went to Exeter University. She became a teacher and taught at St Sidwell's School in Exeter in the 1970s.

King, Elizabeth J. (1986). "Children's Writers: 13-Gene Kemp". The School Librarian. 34 (4): 309–13. From 1972 she wrote stories for young readers about a pig named Tamworth, named after the town she grew up in. Kemp found inspiration for many of the characters in her books amongst the friends of her children, Chantal and Richard. As part of a shared reading session, with the pupils completing the written tasks after discussion and analysis of the text as a class or group.