Two great reads by Michael Ende
Momo
The Never Ending Story
Monday, March 23, 2009
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Just bought
Kinokuniya
Penguin Readers Level 5 Rebecca Daphne Du Maurier
Penguin Readers Level 6 Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky
Katherine Paterson Lyddie
Suzanne Fisher Staples Shabanu
Virginia Euwer Wolff The Mozart Season
Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities
Betsy Byars The Summer of the Swans
Roger Lea MacBride In the Land of the Big Red Apple
Cynthia Kadohata Weedflower
Jacqueline Woodson Feathers
Saturday, March 14, 2009
Just bought
Just bought:
Eloise McGraw The Moorchild
Megan Whaler Turner The Thief
Micheal Ende The Never Ending Story
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
George MacDonald
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_MacDonaldERP P5
At the Back of the North Wind
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/1593106815/ref=sib_dp_pt#reader-link
Reviews:
Finally, an almost lyrical treatment of child death which avoids sombreness without descending into such banality. At the Back of the North Wind was also written for children by an active churchman touched by current controversies. Like Dickens he gets behind the pale face on the pillow: the young hero's fantastic excursions are also, we gradually realize, the wanderings of a sick child's mind; Diamond's hazy presentiments, hopes and fears are externalized with haunting delicacy. The choice of imagery in which they are externalized is novel, not only in detail but in general conception, and the effort to make sense out of mortal suffering without either minimizing or escaping from it is perhaps as successful as it could be. Read more here ===>
http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/landow/victorian/vn/death/banjeree6.html
At the Back of the North Wind online
ERP P4
The Princess and the Goblin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Princess_and_the_Goblin
Anne Thaxter Eaton writes in ‘’A Critical History of Children's Literature’’ that ‘’The Princess and the Goblin’’ and its sequel “quietly suggest in every incident ideas of courage and honor. [1] Jeffrey Holdaway writing in New Zealand Art Monthly said that both books start out as “normal fairytales but slowly become stranger”, and that they contain layers of symbolism similar to that of Lewis Carroll’s work.[2]
The Princess and the Goblin online
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Three Cups of Tea (Young Reader's Edition)
The book's title comes from a Balti proverb: | “ | The first time you share tea with a Balti, you are a stranger. The second time you take tea, you are an honored guest. The third time you share a cup of tea, you become family... |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Cups_of_Tea
For class library 3/3/2009.
Monday, March 2, 2009
L M Elliot
http://www.lmelliott.com/
E bought one of her books - 'Flying South'. I picked it up the other day (didn't really like the cover) but found it to be quite a read. It's set in the 60's in the USA, when JFK (President John Kennedy) was assassinated, then Martin Luther King and also JFK's brother, Robert Kennedy.
The story started with her talking about her friendship with the gardener, Doc, and from there it engages the reader.
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