Chapter 1 CHAPTER 1 Literature in our lives; Chapter 2 CHAPTER 2 Language, emotions and response to literature; Chapter 3 CHAPTER 3 Adapting stories, plays and poetry; Chapter 4 CHAPTER 4 Literature in the classroom: from principles to practice; Chapter 5 CHAPTER 5 Getting started with creative writing, Tina Detheridge, Olivia O'Sullivan, Nicola Grove; Chapter 6 CHAPTER 6 Developing storytellers; Chapter 7 CHAPTER 7 A framework for evaluating students' responses to literature; APPENDIX 1 Examples of poetry styles; APPENDIX 2 Principles of a translation into graphic symbols and signs, Tina Detheridge, Nicola Grove; APPENDIX 3 Teaching resources; APPENDIX 4 Example of story analysis; Bibliography;

'It is to the author's credit that she has written a stimulating, challenging, passionate and above all totally practical book that completely fulfils its aims...Grove's book really does make an outstanding contribution.' - British Journal of Special Education