Book review 2

1) Title: Super naturalist 

Author: Eoin Colfer

2) Plot:Cosmo Hill is a human guinea pig in an orphanage used by corporation to test new products.Statistic say he has a year left to live unless he escapes to a world of high-tech gang warfare, swat teams of paralegals and a plague of four-fingered parasites who are invisible to every one except 3 misfits who call themselves the Supernaturalist    

3) What you have learnt or notice from the writer of the book about characterisations?

a) Main characters:Cosmo Hill

b)  Personality:Determine, hopeful 

C) What did you learn from this author about building interesting characters?

He used their ability and they are very interesting character and the one about 'no-sponsors' is cool as for the Supernaturalist, I like it very much.

5) Recommendation:

Entertainment:5 Stars

Learning:4 Stars

Book review

1) Title: The robe of skull 

Author:Vivian French 

Illustrator:Ross Collins

2) Plot: 

The very evil Lady Lamorna liked a new dress made of the deepest, darkest black velvet encrusted with silvery skulls..When she finds her treasure chest empty, she realizes that there is no way to pay for her wicked new dress. Lady Lamorna will  do anything to get money to pay for her dress. She has no choice but to blackmail, kidnapping, and use all sorts of treachery. Her one true talent is turning princes into frogs.

She went off finding princes to turn into frogs with her servant , Grumble, but met with a True heart, Gracie Gillypot and two bats, Millie and Marlon and a very 'not-so-like-prince' prince, Marcus. Gracie's evil step-sister, Foyce and step-father Mange, have made Gracie's life miserable. When Foyce teams up with Lady Lamorna, Gracie, Marcus, Millie, and Marlon race to thwart all the evil plans. The Ancient Crones lend a hand where they can, but in the end, Gracie and Marcus must use their ingenuity and wits to put Foyce and Lady Lamorna in their proper place.

3) What you have learnt or notice from the writer of the book about characterisations?

a)Main characters:

Lady Lamorna,Gracie Gillypot,Prince Marcus,Foyce

B)  Personality:

Lady Lamorna: Evil,determine...

Gracie Gillypot: Cheerful...

Prince Marcus:'No like' I can use the term do not judge a book by a cover  

Foyce: Evil, beautiful ...

c) How did the personalities play out in the story to make the story more alive and interesting? Give examples quoted from the books.

Gracie had been shut in her step father cold dark and spidery cellar for being cheerful,and the cellar very thick walls.Even in the cellar she heard a faint cry and wondered what would it be? But her ears did nothing worse than tingle.she step sister,Foyce caught the full blast.And when Gracie is finally allowed out of the cellar.Foyce slapped her several time because her head felt as if it were full of singing wasp and she didn't like it.


d) What did you learn from this author about building interesting characters? 

 I learnt that the writer is 'alive' in the book which is to say that he is not a 'narrator' only but also a 'character' hence making the story interesting.

5) Recommendation: 


Interesting... but unfortunately not much word for me in my 'masterpieces'=Composition


Star
Entertainment:4 star 


Learning:3 star