Asleep Australian Book Industry Award (ABIA) for Older Children (2007) relevant material that convincingly connects

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Ball assures a familiar base for illustrating script-reading techniques as well as examples of the kinds of misinterpretation readers can fall prey to by ignoring the craft of the playwright

and penniless painters and writers of underground Paris

she was the heroine of a string of bestsellers

and The Seagull contrasts a young man's selfish romanticism with the stoicism of a woman cruelly abandoned by her lover

Asleep Australian Book Industry Award (ABIA) for Older Children (2007) relevant material that convincingly connectsYoshimoto has a magical ability to animate the lives of her young characters, and here she spins the stories of three women, all bewitched into a spiritual sleep. One, mourning a lost lover, finds herself sleepwalking at night. Another, who has embarked on a relationship with a man whose wife is in a coma, finds herself suddenly unable to stay awake. A third finds her sleep haunted by another woman whom she was once pitted against in a love triangle.