This collection offers a richly diverse range of texts about families in all their variety, in good times and bad times, now and in the past, and reflects a wide range of cultures and settings. They are arranged in four themed sections: Celebration and security, Conflict and confusion, Change and uncertainty and History and continuity. The collection includes texts by Anne Fine, David Crystal, Shyama Perera, Jackie Kay, Seamus Heaney and Thomas Hardy.

 

This book is part of a book series called Cambridge Collections .

There are 256 pages in this book. This book was published 2008 by Cambridge University Press .

This book has the following chapters: 1. Celebration and security: My House, Annette Mbaye d'Erneville; An Overcrowded House, Adele Geras; Ramadan:Why Muslim Families Fast, Kiran Ansari; Family Forum: Our Family Mealtimes Are Battlegrounds, Guardain readers' letters; A Gentleman's Agreement, Elizabeth Jolley; My Parents, Adrian Mitchell; Forging a Family, Sue Palmer; A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens; The Trouble Was Meals, Elizabeth Bennett; Activities. 2. Conflict and confusion: Buried Treasure, Chris Buckton; A Parents' and Teenagers' Alphabet Book, David Crystal; Urgent Note to My Parents, Hiawyn Oram; One Small Step, Shyama Perera; Independence, Anne Frank; Getting the Messages, Anne Fine; Family Values, Richard Benson; She's Leaving Home, The Beatles; Romeo and Juliet, Act 3 Scene 5, William Shakespeare; Activities. 3. Change and uncertainty: Lost and Found, Rachel Anderson; A Family Photo, Lynette Craig; Two of Everything, Jackie Kay; Saturday Fathers, Kit and the Widow; New Families: the Experience of Divorce; The Ultimate Safari, Nadine Gordimer; Me a Mother at 15? No Way!, Jeremy Hart; The Sorrows of Sandra Saint, Lee Hall; Compass and Torch, Elizabeth Baines; An Ideal Family, Katherine Mansfield; Activities. 4. History and continuity: Two poems, Judith Nicholls; From the Grave to the Cradle, Hugh Cunningham and Michael Morpurgo; Little Brother, Mary Mann; Keeping Mum, Sarah Selvarajah; Oral Tradition, Carolyn Steele Agosta; When Ma and Pa Kept Control, Thea Thompson; The Kitchen, David Almond; Patterned Ways, Jo Hilton; Follower, Seamus Heaney; Heredity, Thomas Hardy; Activities; Notes on authors; Acknowledgements.