Marianne Dreams

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Ren: So Anna, at the same time that she creates this horrendous ice-cream machine, she tries to get Mark walking by drawing him standing up on the stairs. But instead she just manages to create a bizarre pair of plaster-cast legs standing on the staircase, that then crumble in front of her. While suffering from glandular fever, 11-year-old Anna Madden draws a house. When she falls asleep, she has disturbing dreams in which she finds herself inside the house she has drawn. After she draws a face at the window, in her next dream she finds Marc, a boy who suffers with muscular dystrophy, living in the house. She learns from her doctor that Marc is a real person. The perfect gift for girls aged 8+, this well-loved classic will delight a new generation of readers of the Faber Children's Classics list. About This Edition ISBN: Adam: There was a beach. It did remind me, reading the book, how much better board games have got. They have chess, and they’re like ‘we could draw Monopoly’ and then play two games of Monopoly in a row. I was like, God, two games of Monopoly in a row! I felt sorry for them. Ali: It pretty much seems to be actually the lighthouse. But it’s hard to tell what’s real and what’s not at this point in the film.

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Ren: It’s a really amazing looking scene! The candles blow out and the not-father looms up and says: ‘daddy’s here!’ Film critic Roger Ebert gave Paperhouse four stars out of four and called it "a film in which every image has been distilled to the point of almost frightening simplicity" and ended by saying "this is not a movie to be measured and weighed and plumbed, but to be surrendered to." [3]

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Ren: Yeah, and for some reason the room that the radio’s in is kind of more sinister than the rest of the house. I think it may have also featured a house, but I particularly remember the flat 2d painted trees in the dream woods. In Marianne Dreams, 10 year-old Marianne falls ill on her birthday with a mysterious illness, and is confined to bed for weeks on end. As she is convalescing, she finds a pencil and begins to draw a house, only to find that when she dreams that night, she is in the world of the drawing, and as she adds to the drawing in her waking life, these elements appear in her dreams.

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I’ll draw a picture of Mark feeling quite well again. Only I suppose then I’ll have to dream about him again, and I don’t want to. I don’t see why I should have to dream about him - why can’t he get well without my having to see him? Perhaps I could just draw him looking quite well, but not in that house, which is where I always seem to get to. And then he probably wouldn’t believe I’d done anything about it, he’d think it had all just happened, and what I’d done didn’t make any difference at all!’ Adam: But this is what we were saying about the dream logic of the film, if you want to be charitable. I’d want to call it dream logic. Storr, Catherine (1970). "Fear and evil in children's books". Children's Literature in Education. 1: 22–40. doi: 10.1007/BF01140654. S2CID 143753098. Ren: Well, I think it’s immediately creepy from the first time she goes int the dream to the house and it’s this flat-looking house on this absolutely deserted plain because she hasn’t drawn anything else, and the wind whipping through the grass, and it definitely has a pretty eerie atmosphere from the beginning.Adam: I think it gets across that feeling of being ill as a child. I had a lot of chest and ear infections as a young kid, so I definitely remember long days and weeks spent in bed and feeling stuffy and frustrated but also out of it and woozy. Julia Eccleshare, "Storr, Catherine", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, online edition, Oxford: OUP, January 2005 accessed 28 June 2008

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Adam: Sure. So in the book it’s much more based around problem solving. Creating objects that Mark might like, or might help Mark in the house. Whereas in the film, she draws the house and next time we see her draw a whole plethora of objects, and there’s not much rhyme or reason. SPOILER ALERT: don’t read the following if you intend reading the book or watching the TV adaptation.]A podcast in which one film lecturer and one scaredy-cat discuss creepy, spooky and disturbing children's books, films and tv.

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Adam: I felt like in the film, the world of the Paperhouse is more of an internal space. It felt more like a psychological space, than a tangible space, perhaps. I'm glad to find this listing - I remember watching this as a child, and there were some memorable scary moments - when the voices start coming out the radio. am glad that the book was re-issued, and I missed out on it first time around, but I am honestly not quite sure who I would recommend MARIANNE DREAMS to, other than KS2 and pre-teenshouse. When she wakes, Marianne realises that the house in her dream was the house she’d drawn. Not liking the Become a Faber Member for free and receive curated book recommendations, special competitions and exclusive discounts.