Roald Dahl and Guy de Maupassant CRACK! BANG! A young boy, Peter Watson was hanging from fifty feet up on a tree, and bullets were being fired at him. The two hooligans had threatened to shoot at Peter if he didn’t jump. One of the loutish ones reloaded his gun and screamed “Last chance!” But Read more…
HUNDRED CAT This is Hundred Cat. He has 100 lives. Hundred Cat has only one problem though, it’s that he is really dumb. “Doy,” says Hundred Cat dumbly. He is soooo dumb that he likes to waste his lives. For example, it was Hundred Cat’s 99th life as he got ready to jump off a Read more…
“The Mildenhall Treasure” is a great story. It uses something called creative nonfiction. This is when a writer takes a real historical fact or story and uses nonfictional characters and techniques to recreate it differently. For instance, one can read a newspaper account of an event and have the same set of facts playing out Read more…
Madeline L’Engle Before I go deep into my writing, I want to say one of the most important things I took away from Chapter Seven. There are a LOT of big words. Mitochondria, farandole, Proginoskes, Echthroi, etc. Echthroi means enemies in Latin, by the way. So many that I had to re-read some pages A Read more…
Mowgli, Kotick, Rikki Tikki, Bagheera, Nag and so many more come from the one and only, Rudyard Kipling. Rudyard Kipling was born on December 30, 1865, and died on January 18, 1936. He lived to be 70 years old. He was born in Bombay, India. One of his most famous books is called The Jungle Read more…
