Egbert and the Princess
This amusing story takes standard fairy tale characters and turns them on their heads.
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Series: School Journal Level 3 August 2013
Reading year level: 6
Category: Fiction
Egbert and the Princess
Words by Katie Furze
The author uses the readers’ prior knowledge of Western dragon–princess stories to create humour by changing the stereotypes, which in turn upsets the readers’ expectations of events and reactions.
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School Journal Level 3 August 2013
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This beautiful poem by one of New Zealand’s best-known poets, Denis Glover (most famous for “The Magpies”), describes objects drifting on the ocean.
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