A LOUDER THAN WAR BOOK OF THE YEAR A riveting journey into the psyche of Britain through its golden age of television and film; a cross-genre feast of moving pictures, from classics to occult hidden gems, The Magic Box is the nation's visual self-portrait in technicolour detail. 'The definition of gripping. Truly, a trove of wyrd treasures.' BENJAMIN MYERS 'A lovingly researched history of British TV [that] recalls the brilliant, the bizarre and the unworldly.' GUARDIAN 'A reclamation, not just of a visual 'golden age', but of Britain as a darkly magical place.' THE SPECTATOR 'A feat of argument, description and affection.' FINANCIAL TIMES 'Young unearths the ghosts of TV past - and Britain's dark psyche.' HERALD 'Highly entertaining . . . [A] fabulous treasure trove.' SCOTSMAN 'Young is a phenomonal scholar.' OBSERVER 'Impassioned.' THE CRITIC Growing up in the 1970s, Rob Young's main storyteller was the wooden box with the glass window in the corner of the family living room, otherwise known as the TV set. Before the age of DVDs and Blu-ray discs, YouTube and commercial streaming services, watching television was a vastly different experience. You switched on, you sat back and you watched. There was no pause or fast-forward button. The cross-genre feast of moving pictures produced in Britain between the late 1950s and late 1980s - from Quatermass and Tom Jones to The Wicker Man and Brideshead Revisited, from A Canterbury Tale and The Go-Between to Bagpuss and Children of the Stones, and from John Betjeman's travelogues to ghost stories at Christmas - contributed to a national conversation and collective memory. British-made sci-fi, folk horror, period drama and televisual grand tours played out tensions between the past and the present, dramatised the fractures and injustices in society and acted as a portal for magical and ghostly visions. In The Magic Box, Rob Young takes us on a fascinating journey into this influential golden age of screen and discovers what it reveals about the nature and character of Britain, its uncategorisable people and buried histories - and how its presence can still be felt on screen in the twenty-first century. '[A] forensic dissection . . . this tightly packed treatise takes pains to illustrate how what we view affects how we view ourselves.' TOTAL FILM

A young girl is given a box of tricks for her birthday and conjures up a polar bear, lots of rabbits and a big party.

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Sometimes the best part of a gift a child receives is the box it came in. This book tells the story of how a young boy and his sister use their imaginations and a simply decorated cardboard box as they play and take fantastic trips to faraway places and meet exotic, imaginary creatures. The illustrations are beautiful, simple, and look like pages in a coloring book. This book will encourage your kids to lay down the electronics and use their vivid imaginations and creativity to go on exciting adventures and make incredible journeys to exotic places.

Once upon a time there was a boy whose name was Cityhood. And he was 12 and lives in the Ground town. He was a lazy and dull boy. When his father and mother call him to do the work of home or the work of school he feels lazy, dull and late. So he could not do at the time. And because of this his friends tease him and call him lazy Cityhood. So he always feels bad. The Cityhood always has a dream that he should have good friend tolerating him and supposed to be famous. But that was not so. The Cityhood's school name was Famedome School. In the bus the one boy who was fat and strong whose name was Tony always show the superiority? He throws him from the first sit at the last of the bus sit and for doing this he does not feel the shame. So Cityhood tolerates that. Now they reach at the school from the bus. In the recess time Tony and his superior friend snatches the lunch box and eats the food. So all was bad with Cityhood. His teacher sir/ madam always teaches him that dirty work has bad effect on us. So always do the good work. But Cityhood listens it and feels work not subtitle in his life. The time of school was going to over and it comes the summer vacation. The holiday homework was to given. And Cityhood was doing own homework. Then next day his birthday came and his father brought a dog for Cityhood. Cityhood celebrated his birthday with cake and candle. And he was happy with his gift pet dog name Sadu. So at every evening he began playing with the pet dog Sadu. Sadu dog was black in color and with a black tail. One day one girl came before the Cityhood when Cityhood was playing in the park with Sadu dog? She became girl friend of Cityhood. She told her name Sita. And told own story that she is her neighbour. So both became a good friend.