Christopher Berry

Do you know what Christmas truly is? You're about to find out. It's Christmas Eve and George and Georgina are curious about the true meaning of Christmas. What is it? Why do we celebrate it? And why do we give and receive presents? So Granny tells them her final story. A long time ago, Mary, Maz and Chris - three sisters from West Pudding - climbed the Sky Tree and encountered the Lady of the Skies, a magical creature harbouring a sad secret. Her secret led the sisters to discover a forgotten village of the other side of the woods. A village that was poor, starving and suffering. A village called East Pudding..."The East Pudding Chronicles: The First Christmas" is the fifth and final book in "The East Pudding Chronicles" series. Join George and Georgina one last time and discover the biggest Christmas secret yet.

Written for principals and assistant principals to read and reflect on together, this book describes the most common challenges facing today’s assistant principals – and provides practical solutions. Authors Carole Goodman and Christopher Berry examine how principals and assistant principals can develop the kinds of relationships that serve to meet the needs of students, staff, and parents. Contents include: The Difference between the Principal’s Job and the Assistant Principal’s Job, The Assistant Principal Role: What the Students Need, The Assistant Principal Role: What the Staff Needs, and Principal and Assistant Principal Communication: The Honest High-Wire Act.

Most people have some poetry in them but they don't like to let it be known! I have decided to 'let it be known'! I'm not 'the bard' or Andrew Motion but I've done my best for we all should have a go at doing our best!

Do you know where Christmas trees come from? You're about to find out...It's Christmas Eve and George and Georgina are curious about Christmas trees. Why do we put them up at Christmas? Why do we cover them in fairy lights? Why do we put fairies on the top? And why do we put presents under them? So Granny sits them down and tells them a story. A long time ago, Mumble the wizard decided to visit Troglup, Dragon Queen of the island of Crumple Dimples. There he recruited a team of Witch Watchers to spy on his greatest enemy, Murmur. What he didn't count on was Murmur having spies of her own..."The East Pudding Chronicles: Plight of the Witch Watchers" is the fourth in a series of books about where Christmas traditions came from. Join George and Georgina and discover the secrets of Christmas. Do you have the first three books in the series? You can buy "The Christmas Monster", "The Merry Mrs Mistle" and "Tale of the Twinkles" from Lulu and Amazon.

Have you ever wondered where Christmas crackers really come from? You're about to find out...It's Christmas Day and George and Georgina are curious about Christmas crackers. What are they? Why do we pull them at Christmas dinner? Why do they always have a toy, a paper crown and a bad joke inside them? And why do they make a loud popping sound? So Granny tells a story. A story about Timothy and Tiberius Twinkle and their son, Charlie-Basil. A long time ago, the evil witch Murmur hatched a fiendish plan to rid East Pudding of the Twinkles. A plan that would lead to the creation of the first ever Christmas cracker...The East Pudding Chronicles: Tale of the Twinkles is the third in a series of five books about where Christmas traditions came from. Join George and Georgina and step into a whole new world of wizards, fairies, elves and monsters - and discover the secrets of Christmas.

Written for principals and assistant principals to read and reflect on together, this book describes the most common challenges facing today’s assistant principals – and provides practical solutions. Authors Carole Goodman and Christopher Berry examine how principals and assistant principals can develop the kinds of relationships that serve to meet the needs of students, staff, and parents. Contents include: The Difference between the Principal’s Job and the Assistant Principal’s Job, The Assistant Principal Role: What the Students Need, The Assistant Principal Role: What the Staff Needs, and Principal and Assistant Principal Communication: The Honest High-Wire Act.

In China on Screen, Chris Berry and Mary Farquhar, leaders in the field of Chinese film studies, explore more than one hundred years of Chinese cinema and nation. Providing new perspectives on key movements, themes, and filmmakers, Berry and Farquhar analyze the films of a variety of directors and actors, including Chen Kaige, Zhang Yimou, Hou Hsiao Hsien, Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Maggie Cheung, Gong Li, Wong Kar-wai, and Ang Lee. They argue for the abandonment of "national cinema" as an analytic tool and propose "cinema and the national" as a more productive framework. With this approach, they show how movies from China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the Chinese diaspora construct and contest different ideas of Chinese nation-as empire, republic, or ethnicity, and complicated by gender, class, style, transnationalism, and more. Among the issues and themes covered are the tension between operatic and realist modes, male and female star images, transnational production and circulation of Chinese films, the image of the good foreigner-all related to different ways of imagining nation. Comprehensive and provocative, China on Screen is a crucial work of film analysis.

In China on Screen, Chris Berry and Mary Farquhar, leaders in the field of Chinese film studies, explore more than one hundred years of Chinese cinema and nation. Providing new perspectives on key movements, themes, and filmmakers, Berry and Farquhar analyze the films of a variety of directors and actors, including Chen Kaige, Zhang Yimou, Hou Hsiao Hsien, Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Maggie Cheung, Gong Li, Wong Kar-wai, and Ang Lee. They argue for the abandonment of "national cinema" as an analytic tool and propose "cinema and the national" as a more productive framework. With this approach, they show how movies from China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the Chinese diaspora construct and contest different ideas of Chinese nation-as empire, republic, or ethnicity, and complicated by gender, class, style, transnationalism, and more. Among the issues and themes covered are the tension between operatic and realist modes, male and female star images, transnational production and circulation of Chinese films, the image of the good foreigner-all related to different ways of imagining nation. Comprehensive and provocative, China on Screen is a crucial work of film analysis.