Series of children's books

successful his career was. Death was a recurrence in his life; however, his children stories reflected a more cheerful atmosphere. He also wrote screenplays and horror stories; he even the script for the movies based on his books. Roald Dahl is more than just an author of children's books; he became a highly revered author that will not be forgotten. Roald Dahl was born in Llandaff, Wales on September 13, 1916 (fantasybookreview.co.uk). He was named after Roald Amundsen, a Norwegian explorer.…

to participate in a brief interview on a book they were reading outside of the classroom. The teacher called up five students and asked a series of questions such as, “What page or chapter are you at?” “What is the book about so far?” “How are you liking the book so far?” “Is the book easy or difficult to understand?” “Have you made any connections to the characters or events in the book?” Each of the five students explained to their teacher that the books they were reading was very easy to…

childhood illnesses were smallpox, measles, influenza, whooping cough, infantile diarrheas, tuberculosis, typhus, worm infestations, eye infections, injuries that crippled/severely impaired them. A few factors that caused some of these were the children’s diet and what they ate, how and where they lived, the breakouts of war, and many other factors in society (Sirasi). Some non-human vectors that brought sickness to some, were mosquitos infected people with Malaria, ticks infected people with…

unorthodox divinities (Newth,2010).Then, about 200 years later Emperor Qin Shi Huang of China ordered the destruction of many history and philosophy books to make it seem that the world started with his rein (Preceden,n.d).Third, the burning of Mayan book’s, Fray Diego de Landa, a Spaniard acting bishop of the Yucatan, burned many of the Maya’s sacred books in 1562 because they conflicted with the Christian ideology he was trying to teach them…

over the power of the Harry Potter series. He states the belief of the series “inspiring a generation of kids to read for pleasure in a world dominated by instant messaging and music downloads” is not as accurate as the populace has come to believe. While many children have gone on to read other series after completing the Harry Potter series, the majority do not. Gioia states that the series “got millions of kids to read a long and reasonably complex series of books. The trouble is that once…

the back of a van. All of your books are gone and they are never coming back. Ray Bradbury crafted an instant classic with his creation of the book Fahrenheit 451. This book set in a futuristic dystopian United States asks what if books were illegal? This thought experiment is what drives the entire narrative of the…

school. When book reports were assigned I tended to read books based on the mood I was in, therefore I would define myself as a mood reader. My interests in books are varied. I like fiction novels but I have also enjoyed reading some biographies. I occasionally read entertainment magazines and news articles on the internet. If a book is really good I can read for hours and get lost in the story. I like Nicholas Spark’s books and I am in the process of reading the Hunger Games series. The…

and formerly Marvel Publishing, Inc. and Marvel Comics Group, is an American publisher of comic books. Marvel Comics created countless stories, universes, and heroes. They grow in numbers and quality as Marvel grows as a company. Martin Goodman founded Marvel Comics, which was original Timely Publications, in 1939. Goodman was a pulp magazine publisher who was expanding into a new medium of comic books. The post-war comic market saw superheroes falling out of fashion. Timely Publications…

Joanne Rowling, Author of the famed Harry Potter series, was born July 31, 1965 in Yate of the United Kingdom (“J.K.Rowling”). Rowling has grown to be one of the most profoundly known children’s authors of the twenty-first century. The genesis of Rowling’s writing career began at a very young age. Since childhood, Rowling knew that she wanted to be a writer. At primary school, Rowling would entertain her classmates by telling thrilling tales of rabbits and a bee. This quality of storytelling…

graduate from high school. J.K. Rowling, the author of the famous Harry Potter series, was living in Edinburgh Scotland on welfare for four years before completing the first book in the series. She had separated from her husband and took her infant daughter, moving to Edinburgh to be close to her sister. She was living on welfare and was “poor as it is possible to be in modern Britain, without being homeless.” She wrote her book in small coffee shops around the city, because walking around…