During class today (is she bored already?), Chloe started jotting down the first sentences of potential novels. I’ve reproduced them below. Needless to say, I think Chloe may have a future as the writer I’ve always wanted to be. See for yourself. I guarantee that you’ll be duly impressed. No spelling mistakes, either, I might add.
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Jack and Jennifer walked on and on until they could walk no longer and the soles of their feet were aching with pain.
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And with one final sickening lurch the boat tipped.
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Mary was walking up a mountain when she tripped, fell and tumbled into a cave so dark she felt like she would never see daylight again.
OK – I don’t get them either. But she had herself in stitches. So they must have been funny. I guess they’re too sophisticated for my 40-year old brain.
Chloe submitted a book review for The Twits to our local independent bookstore last month. We are proud to say that it was just published the store’s e-newsletter! Reprint below. Next on tap, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. I’m very proud of my budding book critic and thankful to the folks at the bookstore for their willingness to print her review.
Roald Dahl…..as popular as ever!
The Twits by Roald Dahl reviewed by Chloe (8 years old)
You might want to know some facts from the book The Twits. So here they are. In The Twits both Twits hate each other so much, they pull pranks on each other. Like this one: For dinner, Mrs. Twit made spaghetti. When Mr. Twit gets his spaghetti he said they were a bit squishy. Mrs. Twit just says it’s a different brand. Guess what it really was? I’ll give you 10 seconds. 1-2-3-10-gotcha! If you’re about to say worms, that’s correct. And you know who did it? None other than Mrs. Twit! The Twits was a very funny book. And that’s all I can say.
The author is Roald Dahl. I’m sure you’ve probably heard of him. If you ever do read this book, I hope you enjoy it.
N.B. Chloe is graduating from 2nd grade and starting a new school in the fall. There are way too many graduations. Even Sophie is having a “moving up” celebration next week.
Nicholas lived in an ordinary house, on an ordinary street, in an ordinary city, which was in an ordinary state (Hawaii), that was in an ordinary country, which was on ordinary planet, and even his life was ordinary. But not for long. For he was about to become the most unordinary person you possibly meet. This whole story begins in February on an ordinary day. It was beautiful outside, and may I add very hot too. Everybody was either at a lake, beach or pool. Except for a boy named Nicholas, Nicholas Mound. He was a well-behaved boy. He was nine years old. And the only thing odd about him was he was born on a leap year. So you can see he probably had the most uncommon birthday somebody could ask for. And in fact today was his birthday.
For his birthday, his dad was taking him fishing. And that’s when the strangest thing of all happened while they were out fishing they caught an octopus. An actual octopus! Nicholas and his dad were amazed. Nicholas touched the octopus and the transformation began. He was turning into an octopus! His dad was too shocked to move, all he was able to do was stare and gape. In about another 30 seconds, Nicholas was an octopus! The only things that were the same about him was he still had hands and legs and feet.
Nicholas was a very smart kid for his age. He was able to figure out that he needed to find the creature most opposite an octopus. Because that would change him back to normal. Which he thought was a spider. Even though it also had 8 legs. And all he needed to do was touch it. He easily found a spider and touched it. And this time he turned into a…well you probably know what happened.
She’s hoping the local bookstore (the one that awarded her honorable mention in the recent bookmark contest) will publish her review in their next kids’ newsletter:
The Twits by Roald Dahl
You might want to know some facts from the book The Twits.So here they are.In The Twits both Twits hate each other so much, they pull pranks on each other.Like this one:For dinner, Mrs. Twit made spaghetti.When Mr. Twit gets his spaghetti he said they were a bit squishy.Mrs. Twit just says it’s a different brand.Guess what it really was?I’ll give you 10 seconds. 1-2-3-10-gotcha!If you’re about to say worms, that’s correct.And you know who did it?None other than Mrs. Twit!The Twits is a very funny book.And that’s all I can say.
The author is Roald Dahl.I’m sure you’ve probably heard of him.If you ever do read this book, I hope you enjoy it.
During class today (is she bored already?), Chloe started jotting down the first sentences of potential novels. I’ve reproduced them below. Needless to say, I think Chloe may have a future as the writer I’ve always wanted to be. See for yourself. I guarantee that you’ll be duly impressed. No spelling mistakes, either, I might add.
