Saturday, 8 October 2016
Danny Champion of the World
Danny Champion of the World By Josh Clifton
By Roald Dahl
Book
Danny champion of the world is a very interesting book.
Danny, the Champion of the World is set in the 1950s and written from the perspective of a nine year old boy.
Danny’s mother died when he was four months old, leaving him to be brought up by his father. They live in an old and cosy gypsy caravan behind a petrol station where Danny’s father works as a car mechanic. The story explores their relationship when Danny discovers “the deepest, darkest secret” of his father’s life: a love of poaching pheasants.
Together they devise the “Sleeping Beauty” plan to drug two hundred pheasants in Hazell’s wood by filling raisins with powdered sleeping pills and distributing them for the pheasants to eat. This local wood belongs to the detested, corpulent, exceedingly rich and obnoxious snob, Mr Victor Hazell. Danny and his father have a violent dislike of Victor Hazell, and they hope their plan to poach all his pheasants will ruin his annual pheasant shoot, held for all the nobility and “fancy folk” in the county.
Their plan succeeds and they escape under the cover of darkness with two gigantic sackfuls of sleeping birds that they leave with the local Vicar’s wife. Danny is crowned "Champion of the World" by his father for setting a new world record for poaching pheasants. The Vicar's wife hides the birds in her baby’s pram in order to return them to Danny and his father the following day. But on the way the sleeping pills wear off and pandemonium ensues as the pheasants escape.
Although their plan is not quite as successful as they had hoped, Danny and his father still manage to exact their revenge on Victor Hazell, who is forced to watch all the birds he raised to be killed at his infamous shooting party fly away. Danny and his father are left with just a few heavily-drugged pheasants to eat with their friends while they contemplate their next adventure.
Danny, the Champion of the World is set in the 1950s and written from the perspective of a nine year old boy.
Danny’s mother died when he was four months old, leaving him to be brought up by his father. They live in an old and cosy gypsy caravan behind a petrol station where Danny’s father works as a car mechanic. The story explores their relationship when Danny discovers “the deepest, darkest secret” of his father’s life: a love of poaching pheasants.
Together they devise the “Sleeping Beauty” plan to drug two hundred pheasants in Hazell’s wood by filling raisins with powdered sleeping pills and distributing them for the pheasants to eat. This local wood belongs to the detested, corpulent, exceedingly rich and obnoxious snob, Mr Victor Hazell. Danny and his father have a violent dislike of Victor Hazell, and they hope their plan to poach all his pheasants will ruin his annual pheasant shoot, held for all the nobility and “fancy folk” in the county.
Their plan succeeds and they escape under the cover of darkness with two gigantic sackfuls of sleeping birds that they leave with the local Vicar’s wife. Danny is crowned "Champion of the World" by his father for setting a new world record for poaching pheasants. The Vicar's wife hides the birds in her baby’s pram in order to return them to Danny and his father the following day. But on the way the sleeping pills wear off and pandemonium ensues as the pheasants escape.
Although their plan is not quite as successful as they had hoped, Danny and his father still manage to exact their revenge on Victor Hazell, who is forced to watch all the birds he raised to be killed at his infamous shooting party fly away. Danny and his father are left with just a few heavily-drugged pheasants to eat with their friends while they contemplate their next adventure.
Space
Laura Walker
Space
15/20 books
This book is one of the most interesting S books I've read. It is all about space. It has lots and lots of facts about space, you could probably find everything you need to know about space.
Facts :
* black holes are one of the coolest phenomena in space.
*the are several different types of black holes
*the word asteroid comes from the Greek and means "starlike"
* Saturn is the sixth planet from the sun and the second largest
* a meteoroid is a small peice of rock or iron.
*the Milky Way Galaxy is about 13.6 billion years old
*venus was named after the Roman goddes of love and beauty
*the Suns core temperature is approximately 27 million degrees F (1 million degrees C)
I really enjoyed reading this book because of the interesting facts, I rate it a 8.5/10
Space
15/20 books
This book is one of the most interesting S books I've read. It is all about space. It has lots and lots of facts about space, you could probably find everything you need to know about space.
Facts :
* black holes are one of the coolest phenomena in space.
*the are several different types of black holes
*the word asteroid comes from the Greek and means "starlike"
* Saturn is the sixth planet from the sun and the second largest
* a meteoroid is a small peice of rock or iron.
*the Milky Way Galaxy is about 13.6 billion years old
*venus was named after the Roman goddes of love and beauty
*the Suns core temperature is approximately 27 million degrees F (1 million degrees C)
I really enjoyed reading this book because of the interesting facts, I rate it a 8.5/10
Roald Dahl: Fantastic Mr Fox
Mr Fox steals chickens from the farm and the farmers Boggis,Bunce and Bean go crazy with anger! It's told that they're the most unpleasant crooks in the and they have assembled a devious plan to dig him out of his hole once and for all. But what they don't know or want to believe is that Mr fox has a plan of his own....I rated this a 8/10 and i recommend it to people over the age of 10-16, 9/10/2016 Timara Stevens-Lett
The Subtle Knife
9/10/16
mystery
Phillip Pullman
7/10
13/20
Will is on the run, he's just killed a man. His adventure will take far beyond the roads that he knows in his town. And his fate will collide with a girl named Lyra. His and her fates are joined and them two together need to find the most powerful weapon ever.
This book i think is very adventurous and dark about the murder of a man at the start but you get into the book easily and then don't mind about the gruesome turns. Its not a book that i would normally read at night because this book is maybe a head turning book. Its not a big book not a small book so it would take up a bit of time to read it all. I would recommend this to adventure seekers and people who love mysteries.
Georgia Perry
mystery
Phillip Pullman
7/10
13/20
Will is on the run, he's just killed a man. His adventure will take far beyond the roads that he knows in his town. And his fate will collide with a girl named Lyra. His and her fates are joined and them two together need to find the most powerful weapon ever.
This book i think is very adventurous and dark about the murder of a man at the start but you get into the book easily and then don't mind about the gruesome turns. Its not a book that i would normally read at night because this book is maybe a head turning book. Its not a big book not a small book so it would take up a bit of time to read it all. I would recommend this to adventure seekers and people who love mysteries.
Georgia Perry
Thursday, 6 October 2016
Boy in striped pajamas
Laur Walker
The boy in striped pajamas
Book 14/20
This book is about a boy who loves to explore but leaves in a terrible ending
The boy (Bruno) came home from school one day and got told he was moving to a different house. He wasn't very happy because he wanted to be with his friends but his mum said he would make new friends. When they moved in Bruno And his sister picked their rooms. When Bruno was unpacking he saw what he thought was a farm, but it wasn't. One day he asked if he could go exploring but his mum said no, so he snuck out though the shed window to go see the farm. He met this boy named shmal. He was a Jew. They became friends, so he went everyday to see him. Bruno's mum told them they were moving and he didn't want to move because he didn't want to leave shmal. So he dug a hole under the fence so he could stay with shmal. Bruno thought it was a fun camp but little did he know it was a camp for people to slave around for people. When he got in the camp they were looking for shmal's dad because he went missing. Bruno's mum realised he was gone so everyone went looking. Bruno ended up dieing with his best friend.
I rate this book a 8.5/10 because it was very interesting but sad.
The boy in striped pajamas
Book 14/20
This book is about a boy who loves to explore but leaves in a terrible ending
The boy (Bruno) came home from school one day and got told he was moving to a different house. He wasn't very happy because he wanted to be with his friends but his mum said he would make new friends. When they moved in Bruno And his sister picked their rooms. When Bruno was unpacking he saw what he thought was a farm, but it wasn't. One day he asked if he could go exploring but his mum said no, so he snuck out though the shed window to go see the farm. He met this boy named shmal. He was a Jew. They became friends, so he went everyday to see him. Bruno's mum told them they were moving and he didn't want to move because he didn't want to leave shmal. So he dug a hole under the fence so he could stay with shmal. Bruno thought it was a fun camp but little did he know it was a camp for people to slave around for people. When he got in the camp they were looking for shmal's dad because he went missing. Bruno's mum realised he was gone so everyone went looking. Bruno ended up dieing with his best friend.
I rate this book a 8.5/10 because it was very interesting but sad.
Encyclopedia of world wonders
Laura walker
Encyclopedia of world wonders
Book 13/20
This book was very interesting to learn new things. It has lots of facts on different topics such as...
*amazing animals
*space
*megastructers
And more
My favourite topic was amazing animals because it's the most interesting for me.
Here are some facts from the book...
A grizzly bear can run as fast as a horse, about 56 kilometers per hour.
The word sues has been derived from the Greek word dios, meaning bright.
There are about 100 billion galaxies in the universe
There have been about 435 people go into space
I rate this book a 8/10 because it had lots of interesting facts
Encyclopedia of world wonders
Book 13/20
This book was very interesting to learn new things. It has lots of facts on different topics such as...
*amazing animals
*space
*megastructers
And more
My favourite topic was amazing animals because it's the most interesting for me.
Here are some facts from the book...
A grizzly bear can run as fast as a horse, about 56 kilometers per hour.
The word sues has been derived from the Greek word dios, meaning bright.
There are about 100 billion galaxies in the universe
There have been about 435 people go into space
I rate this book a 8/10 because it had lots of interesting facts
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