BR 2-14 The Stinking Story of Rubbish (Daynes, 2006)

'Long, long ago, there was no rubbish on Earth.' (p.3).

This book is about rubbish and history. Before the human birth, there was no rubbish. After human birth, the hygienic was terrible because of rubbish. They didn't have rule of wasting rubbish. They couldn't waste such increasing rubbish. Recently, educating of rubbish is tend to strict. We also learned "three Rs" when we were elementary school student. "Three Rs" are Reduce, Re-use, and Recycle. We also learned "Refuse" and we call "four Rs."

Reference

Daynes Katie. (2006). The Stinking Story of Rubbish.

London, England: Usborne Publishing.

[96 words]

BR 2-13: The Billy Goats Gruff (Bingham, 2004)

'Biffer lowered his head and caught the troll on his horns.'  (p.44).

This story is about three goat brothers. The oldest Biffer is also wisest of them. He trained his brothers Beanie and Bertie to go to juicy fields. But there was a problem. There was a scary troll and it blocked passer of bridge. Beanie and Bertie could pass to tell coming of bigger one. But Biffer is a big one to troll eats. But brave, strong Biffer fight with his horns and won. I am oldest so I have to learn Biffers bravery.

Reference

Bingham Jane. (2004). The Billy Goats Gruff.

London, England: Usborne Publishing.

[107 words]

BR 2-12: Stories of Mermaids (Punter, 2005)

'She had a tail instead of legs. - and so did Dan! "Let's try underwater dancing, said Coral."' (p. 47).

This book has three stories. First story is kind and warm mermaid, Harmony. She bravely act to help her sick mother. Second story is about missing pearl. Bad mermaid snatch a great premium pearl from a cheerful mermaid, Marina. She worked hard to get the pearl as premium of seahorse race. Third story is about a pure mermaid Coral. She wanted dancing, but she has only fin. So she asked for give her legs. The limit is a week, she got legs instead of a tail. She fell in love with a man,  but he chose tail and Coral than his legs, so they live happily under the sea. I want to swim under the sea like mermaids.

Reference

Punter Rassell. (2005). Stories of Mermeids.

London, England: Usborne Publishing.

[149 words]

BR 2-11: The Princess and the Pea (Davidson, 2004)

'Peg gasped. "You want to marry me, a palace maid? Yes, please!"' (p.46)

This book taught us true kindness, and warm heart. Prince Patrick wanted to real princess, means someone has kind heart and thinking. But he can't find such a perfect princess. He saw not real princesses. But he realized that his maid, travel mate has worth as true princess and they got married.

I agree to his opinion. If the look is good, it's not all the one has fine heart. The most important thing is character. I think Prince Patrick is clever and he is also real prince.

Reference

Davidson Susanna. (2006). The Princess and the Pea.

London, England: Usborne Publishing.

[114 words]

BR 2-10: The shocking story of Electricity (Claybourne, 2006)

Electricity is all around us, making all kinds of machines work. But what is it? And where does it come from? (p.3).

This book is about how we make electricity, who made it, and the history. There are natural electricity, lightning. But we can't know when lightning appears, how we use it. So making electricity is not easy at first. As you know, there were worldwide famous scientist like Faraday, Volta, and Edison. I think we have to thank them to use electricity like this. If there are not electricity, we can't anything. We can't see in the dark night, we can't ride train, and we can't live comfortable room with air conditioner. Electricity is very important in this life.

Reference

Claybourne Anna. (2006). The shocking story of Electricity.

London, England: Usborne Publishing.

[133 words]

BR 2-09: Cinderella (Davidson, 2004)

”'He strode over to Cinderella. ”I would have searched my kingdom for you,” he said. ”Will you marry me?”' (p.44).

This story is about poor girl. She work hard like a servant everyday, and one day, she heard that her stepsisters are invited to a Christmas Ball. Cinderella haven't allowed to attend it, but her godmother used her a magic and Cinderella became very beautiful lady. She enjoyed with prince, but it was time to fade magic away. But prince's strong love found Cinderella and got married. I think true beauty is inside her heart like Cinderella. I want to be a true beautiful lady.

Reference

Davidson Susanna. (2004). Cinderella.

London, England: Usborne Publishing.

[114 words]

BR 2-08: The story of Rome (Dickins, 2006)

'Rome can't really have been built by one man. So what did happen?' (p.13)

This story is about history of Roma. Roma has long, great history. I think we learned almost their history in the class of world history, but in this book, there are things I didn't know. I want to visit Roma, so I'm interested in their life. But I don't want to see the ”Games.” I can't understand such a cruel sports.

Reference

Dickens Rosie. (2006). The story of Rome.

London, England: Usborne Publishing.

[87 words]