I love Anne♪♪♪

I read a book, Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery.

This is a world famous book and my favorite! I read it first time when I was in the high school. I love Anne and her family and friends. Every time I read a part, Matthew died, I become almost cry. He was a so nice man and a first friend of Anne. When she wanted a dress with puffsleeves, Marilla said no but he got one for her. He was with Anne at anytime. Loosing someone important made Anne more stronger. She became a teacher in a town to be with Marilla.

Also I love the part of Anne and Gilbert. In this book they are not good friends but gradually they become closer through this Anne series. I like both, Anne and Gilbert so I was very happy when I read about them.

As I love this book so much, one of my big plan this summer in Canada was to visit Prince Edward Island and to see the land Anne lived. PEI is famous for the place as Anne was born. L. M. Montgomery was from PEI and made this story. In PEI, there are many places about Anne.
Of course I went to the Green Gables, L. M. Montgomery's birth place and so on. Not only I visited some these places, but also I watched some musicals.

I watched "Anne of Green Gables" and "Anne and Gilbert". "Anne of Green Gables" was the best! It was awesome and perfect!! All casts were as they were in the book and music was also great. I bought a CD after the show, actually. Because the show was so good and I saw a poster of "Anne and Gilbert", I went to watch it. It was okey. I enjoyed it. But to tell you the truth, it was just after one night I watched the first show and it was so good, I didn't feel great. Anyway it was worth watching these musicals for me.

These pictures you can see at the top are from my trip.

This is a HP of the musical, "Anne of Green Gables".
http://www.confederationcentre.com/anne.asp
Also, this is a HP of government of PEI.
http://www.gov.pe.ca/greengables/index.php3

folks&fairy tale 2

I read a book, The Nightingale.

Long long time ago, there was a king in China. He lived in a beautiful palace and its behind was a forest. A nightingale was living in it. He was very famous because of his sweet singing. People wrote books about him and the king read one of them. The king has never heard his singing and really wanted to hear it, he asked his servant to bring the nightingale. The servant found the nightingale and asked to come to the palace. The nightingale agreed and went to the palace. The king loved his singing very much so he asked the nightingale to stay with him and made a nice cage. One day Japanese king sent a toy nightingale to Chinese king.It sang very well so he loved it. Then he seemed to forget about the real nightingale so the nightingale went back to the forest. After for a while the toy broke. Several years later, the king got very sick. He missed the singing but there was no nightingales. One night the real nightingale heard the king was so sick and came to his window. He sang a song so well that the king became well. The king asked the nightingale to come back again but the nightingale said to him no. Instead of that, the nightingale told him to come to his window every night to sing. The nightingale's singing made him very happy.

Jane Austen

I read a book, persuasion by Jane Austen.

I had an image that books which are written by Jane Austen must be difficult to read. But this book has changed my mind. It was very interesting and I finished to read it in an hour.

The main story is about a girl, Anne. When she was nineteen years old, she loved a man and wanted to marry him. But her father who didn't care much about her didn't allow and her close friend who was her mother's friend talked to her to wait and find a richer, more important man. The older woman's persuasion slowly began to work. She told the man she couldn't marry him. He left there and then she didn't want to marry anybody.
More than seven years after that, he came back to the country and she met him. But they didn't talk each other like before. Then some events were happened around them and finally.....

This book is one of "Penguin Readers" series. This is a book series for some English levels and this Persuasion is placed in Elementary level. English is very easy. Also the stories are simplified so it makes easier understand. I think this series are very good way to touch many good, famous books. I'd like to read them more.

folk and fairy tale

I read a book, "The City Mouse and the Country Mouse" by Violet Findley.

There was a mouse living in the country. One day his friend living in the city came to visit him and they played together. They played so hard that got hungry. They went into the field and ate some corn and beans. The city mouse told the country mouse the food was boring and suggested to go to the city. They went to the tall building and plaeyed together. When they got hungry, they found nice foods in the dining room. As soon as they started to eat, a cat and a dog and a person came in so they had to leave and hide for their life. The country mouse thought the city was nice but corn and safty were better than cherry pie and danger. He decided to leave the city. He went home and thought there was no place like home.

Ramona

Do you know "Ramona"?
I know Ramona is a popular name but who I'm talking about is Ramona Quimby.

There are eight books of Ramona by Beverly Clearly.

Ramona is a little girl and likes some tricky things. In each books she gets into trouble but learns something from them.

Ramona has an older sister, Beezus. She is a smart girl and often helps her little sister.

I like both girls because they're so cute. And every time I read the book they reminded me a girl who had a little brother. They often fight but are good friends as Ramona and Beezus.

Another reason why I like Ramona series is author's description. I think her vivid description gives characters reality. Many times I felt like "I know, I know this Ramona's feeling!" Also she describes very details of Ramona's way of thinking. It makes me love her more!

Unfortunately I don't think we have this Ramona series in our library yet. I hope we can have them and many people can read and love Ramona.

If you're interested in Ramona, have a look at this Beverly Clearly site!

http://www.beverlycleary.com/index.html

a Fable

I'd like to introduce you a fable today. The fable is The lion and the mouse.

One day, a lion,the king of the jungle, was laying on the grass because it was too hot to hunt. .A little mouse was on her way with her dinner. However, she was so hurry that she didn't notice the lion. When she crossed his paw, he felt a tickle and found her. Of course he caught her and said, "you will be my dinner!" The mouse didn't give up. She asked him to let her go and help him out one day. He thought that would never happened but admired her brave, let her go away.
The next day the lion was hunting and stepped on a trap. A large net covered him and he couldn't get away from it. He cried and the mouse could hear his voice. She ran straight to him as fast as she could. Once she got there, there was no one to help him except her. She tried to chew the trap and finally he got free.
The lion thanked her and admired her as a little friend.
Its moral is,
Little friends can be great friends.

a girl who has a friend of blind

I'd like to write about a book today. It's "Lilly Makes a Friend" by Brenda Bellingham.

Lilly is a girl who likes Yodel. One day she went to school late and on her way to a classroom she found a boy, Davy. He was crouching over the sidewalk. She told him her name because he was a blind. Then she tried to help him but what he wanted..... was yucky worms! With this as a start, she tried to help him but seemed to get into trouble. When he wanted to play soccer with her, how she did?

I didn't know this book was about a relationship between a girl and a blind boy when I borrowed. I don't know why they knew each other but the story is interesting. The boy has interests toward everything. I can understand why he can put worms in his pocket! Because he doesn't have a sense of "yucky" looking. I don't know anything about blind people so it's good to read.

My First Book Review

Finally! I can tell you about a book.

Its title is "Kitchen Table Talk". (by Kay Hetherly)

Its author is an American and she came to Japan. She found many interesting differences between the U.S. and Japan which people usually don't realize. In this book, she tells them with short stories.

I liked her short stories because they were very casual but something new to me. They gave me more ideas I didn't know before. Also her writing style is full with a warm, comfortable mood. While I was reading, it made me comfortable, too.

You can borrow this book from me anytime if you want. Just let me know!