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One reason why I really like WINNIE THE POOH is because A.A.Milne writes from a child’s viewpoint, which makes it ten times funnier! I often find myself laughing out loud at a dialogue when my little sister -who is still learning to read- catches me and asks, “What’s so funny? Read to me!!!” So then I … Continue reading “WINNIE THE POOH: The unique writing of author A.A.Milne” →
I am enjoying reading the book the black stallion by Walter Farley and it was about the relationship between a boy and a beautiful wild stallion. They first met on board a ship called Drake and the horse was very wild. Could Alec get even close enough to build a bond? Alec knew that the stallion … Continue reading “The Black Stallion” →
One story in the book The Sextant by David Barrie, especially captivated me. The qualities of the two principal men in particular deserve mention. Do you notice any additional character traits that you admire? Joshua : Would you like to know about another two friends? Tina : Yes! Who are they? Joshua : They are two … Continue reading “A Friendship and a Lesson in Evaluating Information” →
May you enjoy a short discussion, based on four chapters of Farley Mowat’s Lost in the Barrens: No Man’s Land, The Rapid, Alone n the Wilderness, The Great Stone House. Joshua : Two boys. Jamie was from Toronto. Awasin lives in northern Canada. Tina : How did they become friends? Joshua : Jamie moved to northern Canada. … Continue reading “The Great Stone House” →
I enjoyed my first book review here. Now, I am enjoying the book Lost In The Barrens by Farley Mowat, published by McClelland & Stewart. Jamie was a young person who left Toronto “to take up a new life in the subarctic forests of northern Canada.” He met his uncle, Angus, who was confident that Jamie would … Continue reading “Leaving Toronto for northern Canada in the 1940s” →
A book review I have been reading a fascinating book about European navigators who charted many continents and oceans of the Atlantic and Pacific. The name of the book is Sextant, by David Barrie, published by HarperCollins. One such interesting explorer was the English man named George Vancouver. One of his goals was to map large … Continue reading “The island of Quadra and Vancouver” →