The Noisy Classroom by Ieva Flamingo

The Noisy Classroom by Ieva Flamingo

It isn't easy being a kid, especially in the noisiest class in the school. Some days, you struggle with algebra, or too much homework. Sometimes, one of your fellow pupils just won't SHUT UP. And sometimes, the hardest thing is just trying to fit in. When the class feels like a many-headed dragon, how can you find a place for yourself? Would you feel less lonely if you could smuggle a cat in? And when your parents are fighting, don't you find yourself looking into other people's windows on the walk back home? Ieva Flamingo's children’s poems capture the emotional highs and lows of childhood with a sharp, surreal eye and a touching sympathy. The Noisy Classroom is a friend of a book: the poems here understand the pressures faced by children, but they also take in stressed parents, overworked teachers who dream of holidays in Iceland, and the fairies who clean the school at the end of the day. Not to mention the headmaster: after all, he was young once too... The Noisy Classroom contains 40 poems and features bonus materials, including interviews with the author and the illustrator, and ideas for writing your own poems.

The Noisy Classroom is an evocative, thought-provoking collection of illustrated poems featuring a range of situations, objects and emotions both in the school environment and outside it

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This book of poems is very interesting for me, Ieva Flamingo writes about so many subjects. It helps me with my language and to learn new words and information. Some pieces are funny and some are serious and moving.

Ieva Flamingo is sensitive about people and relationships and also cares about the natural world. Her poetry helps us to see that computers and mobile phones aren’t the most important things in life, you need nature and friendship too.

I can’t speak Latvian so I am happy these poems have been translated otherwise I wouldn’t have known about them. My first languages are Greek and Albanian so I know how important it is to be able to translate good writing into a language people can understand.

I like writing my own poems and I write about people, and the world and what interests me just like Ieva Flamingo does. At the back of this book are suggestions for creating your own poems. I think I will try some.

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Ieva Flamingo (the pen name of Ieva Samauska) is one of the most prolific Latvian children’s authors writing today. She has been a journalist at various newspapers and magazines for over twenty years, and for the last ten years has worked at Ieva, Latvia’s biggest weekly magazine. She won the Pastariņš Prize for Latvian Children’s Literature in 2015 and her books have been nominated for the International Jānis Baltvilks Baltic Sea Region Award four times. Her first collection of lyrical poems, Kā uzburt sniegu/How to conjure up snow (liels un mazs, 2006), was adapted for the Latvian National Theatre in 2007. Ieva lives in Saldus, a small town in Latvia, with her family, three cats and a white dog. Vivianna Maria Staņislavska studied Printmaking and Graphic Arts at the Art Academy of Latvia. The Noisy Classroom is her debut illustrated book and won her the Jānis Baltvilks ‘Jaunaudze’ Award in 2016. Žanete Vēvere Pasqualini is a translator and literary agent. She graduated from the Faculty of Foreign Languages, University of Latvia, in 1995, at the same time completing a course in Italian language at the University of Perugia. She was the first Latvian Consul in Rome after Latvia regained independence, and now divides her time between Latvia and Italy. She currently she works as a literary agent for Latvia, promoting Latvian literature abroad and dedicating some of her time to literary translation. In her translations, Žanete enjoys the challenge of rendering the text precisely while keeping the target language as natural and flowing as possible. Her translations into English include: novel “The Green Crow” by Kristīne Ulberga (Peter Owen Press); the short stories “The Birds of Ķīpsala island” by Dace Rukšāne and “The Shakes” by Svens Kuzmins (anthologised in “The Book of Riga”, Comma Press); children’s poetry “The Noisy Classroom” by Ieva Flamingo (Emma Press); the children’s book “Dog Town” by Luīze Pastore (Firefly); “Minimisms” by Imants Ziedonis (Viegli), and the play “History Research Commission” by Alvis Hermanis and company (Jaunais Rīgas Teātris). Sara Smith is a teacher and translator, based in Rome. She studied Italian and Business at Edinburgh University, where she was awarded a Swiss Arts Council prize for translation. She has worked for a decade with Latvian Literature, the national body promoting the country's literature abroad, as editor of translated works of literary fiction for adults and books for children. Her work has been published by Guerra Editori, Artes Faveo and The Emma Press. Richard O’Brien is a poet, translator and academic based in Birmingham, UK.

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ISBN 13	9781910139820
ISBN 10	1910139823
Title	The Noisy Classroom
Author	Ieva Flamingo
Condition	Unavailable
Publisher	The Emma Press
Year published	2017-09-14
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.