Framed

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The adorable narrator of this book is 9 year old Dylan from Wales. He's the ONLY boy in the small town of Manod so he has no one to play soccer with...a real bummer in a young English boy's life. TV - Original Drama Serial (with Paul Abbott, Martin Allen, Ken Blakeson, Tom Elliott, Barry Hill, Stephen Mallatratt, Julian Roach, Adele Rose, Patrea Smallacombe, John Stevenson, Peter Whalley, Mark Wadlow and Phil Woods)

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Frank was asked by the Fleming Estate to write the official sequel to Ian Fleming's Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flies Again was shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny Prize in 2012.

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And we went looking for it in the Gallery and, of course, it's huge. We didn't expect it to be huge. we'd only seen postcards of it and we went in and said it's somewhere in this room [makes surprised sound] and there it was! It was this massive thing and she burst into tears because it was just so exciting! The family is strapped for money so his sister, obsessed with master criminals and crimes, thinks it's time for a perfect crime of their own. The storage of paintings from the London National Gallery inside an abandoned mine near the tiny Welsh town of Manod, drastically changes the dreary town where it rains all the time, and alters forever the life of Manod's only boy, Dylan, who is fond of soccer (which, being the only boy, he doesn't often get to play) and cars (which, helping at his parents' gas station, he sees a lot of), but not particularly interested in paintings. Things are especially stirred up when Minnie, Dylan's criminal-mastermind-in-training sister, decides to pull the art heist of the century. This is an entertaining story full of amusing incidents, and nine year old Dylan is a hilarious narrator, who does not always have a complete grasp on the events happening around him. For instance, Dylan befriends Lester, a Londoner who is the paintings' primary caregiver, after a mixed message conversation-- Dylan was talking about the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, but Lester thought he meant the Renaissance artists, and mistakenly concluded that Dylan was a young art prodigy; further mishaps do nothing but reinforce Lester's inaccurate view. The supporting characters are all eccentric, but still realistic. The story's greatest strength, though, is the way that one by one, the people of the town (and also Lester), are inspired by art around them and slowly begin to change Manod and their lives for the better, creating a unique story about the transformational power of art. Readers ages nine through thirteen will best appreciate the book's humor. Read more

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There were a few sections of the book that dragged a little, but I had to keep reading because the author was so good at throwing something in that would just make me laugh out loud. Dylan relates many of his experiences to the Ninja Turtles, which is popular with the children (and especially with a child-like adult named Tom) in Manod. I couldn't help laughing every time Tom would say incredulously "What the shell?!" Set almost entirely in Wales, Framed tells the story of 10-year-old Dylan Hughes and his family's struggle to keep their small petrol station, which sits at the foot of a mountain in North Wales, afloat. Frank Cottrell Boyce: I never, ever base characters, consciously, on real people because they would kill me. I just don't want to do that. But after I wrote the book, and when I read it for the first time, I realised that I've got a son who would have been about nine when I was writing the book and he had three brothers, but one was a baby and two were much older than he was, so he was surrounded by sisters, so he never had anyone to play football with or to talk in a manly way with, so the character of Dylan, who is the only boy in school, that's sort of my son, but I didn't do it on purpose, it just popped into my head. Cottrell-Boyce has been praised by Roger Ebert as one of the few truly inventive modern-day screenwriters. He has spoken against the "three-act structure" and the "hero's journey" formulas, which are often regarded as axiomatic truths in the business [14] [ clarification needed]. perhaps his most famous example of this is in 24 Hour Party People where the character of Anthony Wilson states that “Scott Fitzgerald said there are no second acts in American lives. This is Manchester. We do things differently. This is the second act” which Cottrell-Boyce has stated was due to criticism of the script not following the three act structure. [15]

Cottrell-Boyce is an advocate for reading aloud and patron of The Reader Organisation. a charity that works through volunteers to bring literature to everyone, through reading aloud in prisons, care homes and other community spaces. [30] Novels [ edit ] Dawtrey, Adam. "Phantom scribe gets BIFA nom". Variety. Archived from the original on 28 June 2006 . Retrieved 29 July 2012.

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Lacey, Josh (15 October 2011). "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flies Again by Frank Cottrell Boyce – review". The Guardian. London. And the other thing is that where I live, I live on the beach near Liverpool, and someone installed a huge work of art on the beach. It was a very lonely, industrial beach, it's not attractive at all, it's just where the ships come in. And there is a promenade but it's quite wintery and windy and miserable. And someone put these statues on the beach – an artist called Antony Gormley – and since then it's been really busy and it's like there is a permanent festival going on. But if you just spend a lot of time saying I love this, I love this picture, I love that anecdote, I love this boy, I love this idea, I love all these different things and put them in a notebook then the story comes that will encompass them all. Interviewer: You write stories for film and television as well as books. Artists tell stories in one painting. How are they different? Cottrell-Boyce has won two major British awards for children's books, the 2004 Carnegie Medal for Millions, which originated as a film script, and the 2012 Guardian Prize for The Unforgotten Coat, which was commissioned by a charity. [3] [4] Personal life [ edit ]GFrank Cottrell-Boyce receives honorary award". 16 July 2013. Archived from the original on 11 October 2013 . Retrieved 2 January 2014.

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Authorgraph No.170 – Frank Cottrell Boyce". Books for Keeps. Archived from the original on 21 March 2009.And then the other thing is that I have always known the story that, during the Second World War, all these paintings from the National Gallery were taken away because they were worried that the Germans would bomb the gallery or that people would steal the paintings and they were hidden away in this small town in Wales. And the idea that this small, very poor town, had billions of pounds worth of these amazingly beautiful pictures hidden away – that always seemed like a great story to me.