The Book Show

and scripted dialogues are taking over the minds of the masses. Books have slowly evolved into work, not pleasure. It is hard to find children who spend their time reading a Dr. Seuss book rather than playing Flappy Birds on an iPad. People used to line up to snatch a newly released novel; now people wait in line to watch the next Fast and Furious movie. As other forms of media become more and more popular, the importance and use of books are becoming less and less significant. The saying…

you rarely see a person with a book; however, one book series are still in the hand of all age groups today. These- must- read books are the Harry Potter series. It all began with the first novel, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. Written by the talented J. K. Rowling in 1997, her first book won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize, which is a prize given to British Children Books that ran from 1985 to 2007. Her first book sold 107 million worldwide, making the book in the hands of every child.…

This book is a treasure, it pushes you to think about certain things that we would think of in our twenty-first century lives. I would encourage everyone that has a desire for answers to the over looked questions. It gives an answer that is less on the magic side and give you an insight to the great minds of the future and past. The characters of the book are unique and assemble almost a magical team. The plot of the story is simple, however, to truly under the characters yearns and reasoning…

Imagine falling from the top of an enormous oak tree while young boys at the bottom are yelling profane words and accusations, and it is still unclear what caused the fall in the first place. Books like The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, A Separate Peace and even The Bible have been removed from school curriculums due to their profane language, obscenity, and violence. In particular, A Separate Peace was banned because of its use of profane language. Although A Separate Peace by John Knowles…

All great books and literature are filled with a new understanding for the reader. Books are the not only for pleasure, but for learning. It makes people experience perspectives that they couldn't on our own. In the books read in 7th grade there were the life lessons in the themes of courage, death, and friendship. Many novels have some sort of death that changes a character. In The Outsiders many people die: Johnny gets killed in tragedy by a burning fire trying to save kids in a burning church…

or even watching TV shows. Stories comfort us and educate us. They touch our hearts and make us smile and cry, they make us human. When reading stories there is so much you can gain from them. Stories give you advice, and have morals, which teach you lessons. Even if you read a book for the hundredth time, when you finish it, it might teach you something new, or a new way to look at it. It gives different point of views. So then you might ask why read books? Well, reading books improves your…

Reading books and annotating them are one of the main work done in English classes especially books like "To Kill a Mockingbird" written by Harper Lee. Why should the Heritage curriculum eliminate such a good book like that? In "To Kill a Mockingbird", Harper Lee shows that racism, discrimination and cruelty is powerful than reason and intelligence. There are a lot of reasons to keep "To Kill a Mockingbird" book and not to eliminate it. This book has been a choice to read this book from the…

well-known author due to his picture books – he has approximately forty picture books to his name-. Among them, The Tunnel is an appropriate example to be considered so as to show the importance of reading picture books. As Browne states “I hope to encourage more children to discover and love reading, but I want to focus particularly on the appreciation of picture books, and the reading of both pictures and words. Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow…

Visual Analysis The book Harry Potter and Half-Blood Prince is written by J. K. Rowling, and it is the fifth one of the series of Harry Potter. The cover of a book is very important because it can attract readers to read book when they see it at first time. This cover appeals adult or the fans of Harry Potter by using golden and decorated letters for the title and a scene for this story. This cover appeals adult because there is no cartoon character in this cover. Many adults do not like…

party a good friend of mine had given me a $20 gift card to buy some books at Barnes and Nobles. If you didn't know Barnes and Nobles is a bookstore that sells anything book related. A month later I visited Barnes and Nobles to buy some books. The door opened and the aroma of coffee filled the air. I walked past the aisles looking for a book that caught my eye. I eyed the “Artist’s Guide of Drawing Everything” but along with the book was a tag that read $45. My thoughts faded away. I then looked…