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Apr 4, 2008 · Nim's Island: Directed by Jennifer Flackett, Mark Levin. With Abigail Breslin, Jodie Foster, Gerard Butler, Michael Carman. Imagination and reality collide when young Nim's father goes missing at sea.
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- Adventure, Family, Fantasy
- Jennifer Flackett, Mark Levin
- 2008-04-04
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- Jennifer Flackett, Mark Levin
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Nim lives on an island in the middle of the wide blue sea with her father, Jack, a marine iguana called Fred, a sea lion called Selkie, a turtle called Chica and a satellite dish for her e-mail. No one else in the world lives quite like Nim, and she wouldn’t swap places with anyone. But when Jack disappears in his sailing boat, and disaster threate...
“A fantasy tale as welcome as a breath of fresh tropical air.” (Starred review in Publishers Weekly, USA, Feb 19, 2001) “Appealingly offbeat tale… Nim, with her unusual associates and just-right mix of self-reliance and vulnerability, makes a character young readers won’t soon tire of.”(Kirkus Reviews, USA, Dec 15, 2000) “Teachers can springboard m...
Named one of the Best Books for Children of 2001 by the L.A. Times.Shortlisted, The West Australian Young Readers’ Book Award (WAYRBA) 2001Families Just Like Us: The One Parent Families good book guide, UK, 2000New York Public Library’s “Children’s Books, 2001 – 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing” A Parent’s Guide 2001Discussion points
Nim and her dad live all alone on their island. Do you think this would be a fun way to live? What might be some of the problems? Think of all the different things you could make out of coconuts if you lived on an island like Nim’s. What else could you make out of things you could find on the island? Could a whale really have swallowed Nim’s mother? What do you think happened? Would you like to have Nim as a friend? What could you learn from her? What could she learn from you? Alex Rover does...
Research on the net – (like Alex Rover):
Marine iguanas – how are they different from other iguanas and lizards? Where do they live? Find out more about the Galapagos Islands. If they are only supposed to live on the Galapagos Islands, why might they also live on Nim’s Island? Sea lions – how are sea lions different from dolphins? Find out more about sea mammals. Sea turtles – how are they different from land turtles? Can they retract (pull in) their head and flippers? If not, can you guess why it wouldn’t be as useful for them as l...
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Nim’s Island: Excellent Stuff to Make, Cook, Read, Do – Recipes, activities and study guide based on Nim’s Island and Nim at Sea. (All proceeds to the Indigenous Literacy Foundation.) http://www.homeschoolshare.com/nims_island.php http://libertyhillhouse.blogspot.com/2009/07/nims-island-lessons-chapter-2.html For more Nim’s Island activity ideas: https://au.pinterest.com/wendyorr1/nims-island-ideas-for-teaching-groups/ To see all the different Nim’s Island covers: https://au.pinterest.com/wen...
What was your inspiration for this book? Nim’s Island was inspired partly by two letters from girls asking me to write a book about them. I said that I couldn’t do that, but I started playing the writer’s game of “What if?” (two very important words in finding stories). “What if a girl wrote to an author and said “Could you please write a book abou...
Nim’s Island is currently in print in several editions and many translations: Australia: Allen & Unwin USA: Random House/Knopf UK: Puffin Brazil: A Iilha de Nim; Brinque Books China: (Simplified Chinese) by Dolphin Media Co France: L’ille de Nim; Flammarion Germany as Wie versteckt man eine Insel? ; DTV Junior Greece Israel: Iguana (info@iguana-boo...
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Apr 4, 2008 · PG. 1h 35m. 2008. 53%. Preview. A young girl inhabits an isolated island with her scientist father and communicates with a reclusive author of the novel she's reading. Based on the book by Wendy Orr and Kerry Millard. Director: Jennifer Flackett, Mark Levin.
- Jennifer Flackett, Mark Levin
- Abigail Breslin, Jodie Foster, Gerard Butler
Anything can happen on Nim's Island, a magical place ruled by a young girl's imagination. It is an existence that mirrors that of her favorite literary character, Alex Rover - the world's...
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