Holly Ryan – författare

Unlimited Players provides writing center scholars with new approaches to engaging with multimodality in the writing center through the lenses of games, play, and digital literacies. Considering how game scholarship can productively deepen existing writing center conversations regarding the role of creativity, play, and engagement, this book helps practitioners approach a variety of practices, such as starting new writing centers, engaging tutors and writers, developing tutor education programs, developing new ways to approach multimodal and digital compositions brought to the writing center, and engaging with ongoing scholarly conversations in the field.  The collection opens with theoretically driven chapters that approach writing center work through the lens of games and play. These chapters cover a range of topics, including considerations of identity, empathy, and power; productive language play during tutoring sessions; and writing center heuristics. The last section of the book includes games, written in the form of tabletop game directions, that directors can use for staff development or tutors can play with writers to help them develop their skills and practices.  No other text offers a theoretical and practical approach to theorizing and using games in the writing center. Unlimited Players provides a new perspective on the long-standing challenges facing writing center scholars and offers insight into the complex questions raised in issues of multimodality, emerging technologies, tutor education, identity construction, and many more. It will be significant to writing center directors and administrators and those who teach tutor training courses.

An enchanting, rhyming text featuring a whole host of familiar and much-loved fairy-tale characters on a new adventure.Goldilocks wants to play and wants someone to join her adventure. But Mum, Fairy Godmother, the three bears and a whole family of familiar fairy-tale friends are too busy with their chores to play. Her marvellous plans are met by ‘Not Now, Goldilocks!' but everyone promises to play with her later ... Join little Goldilocks and her big imagination as she discovers that even when loved ones are too busy to play, adventures for one can be just as much fun. And when she really needs them, her family and friends will be there for her to play and help save the day. Not Now, Goldilocks! is an energetic, rhyming text that follows the fun-seeking Goldilocks on her journey of discovery through fairy-tale land and into a realm of creative play. A book to encourage and inspire independent play in children with a reassuring message of love and support even when their grown-ups are busy with other things.Written by Holly Ryan, author of Never Mess With a Pirate Princess and giggle-inducing illustrations by Navya Raju, an illustrator and designer from Hyderabad, India. Children will adore spotting the characters they know and love in a new and funny story.

Princess Prue was sweet and fair, till PIRATES stole her teddy bear! Don't they know?! You NEVER mess with Prudence - pirate AND princess! A feisty, mould-breaking heroine for adventure-hungry toddlers.

This isn’t a library for book-borrowers – in this library you borrow a llama!The Llama Library has any subject you can imagine – cookery, history, art, music, science even romance! All you need to do is go to the section and choose your llama, give the librarian your card to stamp and you can take it home. And that’s where things might get a little… messy! But don’t worry – just return your llama to the library and borrow another.Holly Ryan’s hilarious story of a library from another dimension is broght to life by the incredible Ella Bailey. The magic of borrowing from your local library has never been this funny!

This isn’t a library for book-borrowers – in this library you borrow a llama!The Llama Library has any subject you can imagine – cookery, history, art, music, science even romance! All you need to do is go to the section and choose your llama, give the librarian your card to stamp and you can take it home. And that’s where things might get a little… messy! But don’t worry – just return your llama to the library and borrow another.Holly Ryan’s hilarious story of a library from another dimension is broght to life by the incredible Ella Bailey. The magic of borrowing from your local library has never been this funny!