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Wednesday 16 November 2011

Goldilocks And The Three Bears By Edward Millar

This story is such a cool story!!!
This book is taken place in the woods in a little old house that three bears live in.

They made some porage but it was to hot!!! so they went for a walk to let the cool down.
Suddenly a little girl named Goldilocks came knocking on there door but of course no one answered so she....
To find out what happens next go to Carterton Schools library or the Carterton libary on Holloway street Carterton.
I recomend this book for 5 years and over....
By Zara Aitken!!!

Little red riding hood

 The story takes place in the woods, little red has to take a cake to her grandma. The wolf is waiting to eat little red, the wolf is very tricky and thinks that he can eat grandma and little red. So the wolf asked little red to a race. The girl said yes. The wolf ran as fast as he could to grans to eat her then he could eat little red. Read the rest and find out the rest of the story.



BY  MATT

The Red Pyramid R.Riordan

Carter and Sadie Kane's dad is a great Egyptologist with a secret plan that goes wrong. A big bang destroys the ancient Rosetta Stone and let's lose Set, the evil god of chaos

By Maria

Tuesday 8 November 2011

Gordon's got a snookie By:Lisa shanahan

All the animals in the zoo where waiting for Gordon to arrive.He was a big strong hairy gorrila but when he arrived everyone laughed because he had a snookie(Blanket).Gordon became lonely and sad because none of the animals spent time with him.Gordon saved a baby gorrila with his snookie.Then everyone thought he was a hero.

Goldilocks and the three bears By Edward Miller

An exciting part of the story was when the father bear walked into baby bears room and saw Goldilocks in the bed and got a fright. He got such a shock that Goldilocks woke up and screamed then ran away. I found this book interesting because the moral is to never take what isn't yours. I recommend this book for five year's and over.
By Laura

The Three Little Pigs by Edward Millar :)

The three little pigs
is taken place in the woods in 3 little houses made out of
brick, straw and wood.t
There was a big old
hairy wolf who was extremely hungry for some pigs, so one day the
 bad wolf knocked the first pigs door, this pig made his house
out of straw to... find out more read this book
at Carterton's school library or at the Carterton Library. I recommend this book 4 and over!!
By Zara Aitken

Goldilocks and the three bears

Goldilocks and the three bears took place in a house near a forest.This was an inportant part of the story because this is where the bears go for a walk .When the bears leve a girl called Goldielocks comes into there house ate food ,broke chairs and sleepet in there beds then the bears come back.I have learnt to always lock my door.

By shontay

How fire came to Samoa Retold By Makerita Urale

This is an interesting way to describe how fire came to Samoa .The dad is brave for cooking food for the fire god because if it wasn't cooked or if it was burnt he might kill him.It is very funny when a powerful god get's taken down by a little boy. The god finally gives up and let's the people of Samoa get warm food and fire.

By Nikora.

The Fox And The Goat By Jane Buxton

The fox and the goat took place in a water well which is important because that is where the fox fell into.The moral of the story is that the fox fell into the well and the goat came along and got in so the fox could stand on his back and get out.After the goat got into the well and the fox got out the goat was stuck.So the fox tricked the goat in a very mean way.I have learnt not to trust every one. 
By Hannah

Matarawa house Rhondda Greig

This book was about people who lived in a beautiful house where animals hid in the places they never go.The animals are all of the common animals like possums, rats, cats and wetas. This book was realistic because all of the animals do things that they do in real life like hanging around and catching things and hiding.
By: Ashley

Goldylocks and the Three Bears By Edward Miller

This story takes place in the deep dark forest . The three bears just went out for a walk and well you know the story ,in the end the three bears came back and saw all There porgy gone and there Chairs been sat on and baby bears chairs was broken. Up stairs they found Goldilocks's,but the three little did int scar her out the made her ........make more porgy and..fix the chair and help make the beds.so the moral was maby if you ask you will get it but if you don't you will get told off.I really thort it was a good way to change the story and it really was a good book with good pitches.            
                        By Sophie

Three sam and lucy by Alan Bagnall. Fable from School Journal New Zealand

The story took place on the road side. Sam and Lucy are two pigs. The two pig show people where to drive a car and where not to drive.They tell people to leave the flowers on the tree. That way you do not have to go to the shop tobuy them. You won't get apples if you pick the flowers. If they stay, the fruit would grow on the trees so you can eat it.

BY Matt

SONG OF THE EARTH By Jane Ray

This book is about how water,earth,air,fire were made the land on earth were made by big people after a little while littel people were made so they stare to grow grass,hay,food



By Dre

THE BIG MYTH MAORI FABLE

From this fable i learned how the world was formed.
It was about a god spewing up the world.
I recomend this book for any ages.


BY BRODIE GREEN

Matarawa house by Rhondda Greig

Matarawa house is about two kids and a white house with hundreds of animals that live inside the roof of there house. The kids never see that much animals so they look around the house what will happen. Rhondda Greig is a local artis in carterton.



                                                      By Kenan Sword

maui attacks tuna roa

This story is about when mauis girlfriend gets attacked by tana roa and maui seeks reveng.
Maui goes to the creek where his girlfriend gets attacked and sets a net so when tana roa
swims by he will get caught in the net.when maui try to pick up tana roa more elis
apare on his head.Maui got hold of one elis on his head and rips the eli of his head and takes
it back to his camp to eat with his family and girlfriend.

The Three Little Pigs By Maggie Moore

The three little pigs is about three little pigs that move out of their mothers house and they made their own houses but the third one made the strongest house then came the big bad wolf comes......

by Luke.

Bamse

Bamse.gifThis book is full of stories about a bear called Bamse. He eats a Honey called dunnderhunun which makes him super strong.It's in Swedish but if you could read it I would say all ages could read it.I learned that it is good to have friends and to help not harm those weaker than you.
Country of origin Sweden.

Bamse bär burkarBamse och Billy BoyBy Maria

Fortune Teller by Aesop

This story is about a fortune teller who tells people their fortune for money. This story took place in a park with lots of people. At the end the fortune tellers neighber said to the fortune teller that his house is getting robbed and he runs away to his house and all the people at the park were saying the little thief he cant even tell our fortune.                by Simon

How Fire Came To Samoa by Makerita Urale

This is a legend about an earthquake god called Mafiue and a family. Every day the dad makes a six hour journy to the earthquake gods lair to serve him. Then one day the son of the dad follows him into the earthquakegods lair. Then he hides up a tree and then his dad finds him and he tells him to leave at once. Then he ate the food of Mafiue it was cooked but in those days they ate food raw. Then the god finds him and they wrestle and the young boy say to the god " give us fire so we can cook our food and I will let you go". The god agrees and then they never ate raw food again.




By Caleb Judson

How Fire Came Samoa Retold By Makerita Urale

This is a very interesting myth/legend of how fire came to Samoa. This story took place in Samoa. I liked it when the boy in this story fought the god of fire and won the fight. The god of fire changed in the end of this story by being ashamed of losing to a little human boy so he agreed to give fire to samoa so the humans could have warm cooked food.

By Caleb T.

maui kills tangi roa

In this story maui dosent realy kill tangi roa. He chops an eel of his head then feeds his family.
I think it was realy cool because it had alot of action



by Hunter

Wednesday 2 November 2011

The Rabbits Gift By George Dronzek

The Rabbits gift is about a kind rabbit how gives a turnip to a friend in a snow storn .I turns out that that friend already had enough food so he gives it away,then that friend had enough.So in the end it goes back to rabbit, so she shared it with all her friends. they all ate the turnip and had a very good time.


By Hannah

The lion and the mouse Gail Herman

I like this book because it shows even little enemies can do big nice things to help people in need. By: Ashley

Rabbits Gift George Shannon & Laura Dronzek

I think this book is really nice because it shows how you dont need to be greedy and just share the extra things you have because the rabbit has two turnips and she gives one away and the other person doesnt need it so she gives it away it carries on until it ends up back with the rabbit. By: Ashley

Two men and a bear By Aesop

This is about 2 men and a bear. 1 of the men spotted a bear, so he ran for a tree and climbed up. The other man finally realised but it was to late to run so he dropped to the ground and pretended to be dead. The bear didn't eat him.                I would recomend this book for the age of 5+. I liked this book.

By Tyra

Three little pigs by Edward Miller

This  is a origanal story about three pigs and a wolf . The moral of this story is dont be gready and be grasefull of what you have or you could lose it all and not have eneything.+ Neaver jump down a chimney.

Gordons got a snookie

This book is about a big strong grilla with a blankie and know one likes him and he gets lonly



by luke

Matarawa cats

It quiet a good because a lady talks about the matarawa cats. She talks about how they live and hunt and how the sleep they are black with weird eyes.

Alvin And THE CHIPMUNKS By Perdita Finn

Alvin and the chipmunks is a book that is like the move but insed you have to read it insed of waching it
i thunk this book is good for all ages DONT FOR GET TO READ ROOM 12.




By Dre

Tuesday 1 November 2011

The fox and the goat by Jane Buxton

A fox fell down a well a goat came along and wanted to know what he was doing down in the well.The fox told the goat to come on down and have a drink because there was no water around.Once the goat jumped down the fox jumped on his back and got out.  Clever fox.


by ben

MAUI AND THE BIG FISH KALM

This legand is about how maui and his brothers go out fishing out sea.
His brothers had been fishing all day and had no luck and then maui
asked his brother if he could have a go his brother said yes.So maui thru
his line in and as soon his line went in he got a massive bite. When he
pulled the line a massive fish looking like the north island aperred.

Three Sam and Lucy fables

Sam and Lucy are nice and helpful pigs. They help a man that was carrying a car because he didn't know what to do with it so then told him how to drive and he drove home.I recomend the books for any age.

what holds the sky up?by lagi sipeli

The sky began to fall they tryed to hold it up with a pia plant it didn't work so they tryed a tavahi tree but it didn't work so in the end they tryed a banyan tree and it worked.



by ben

Areta and the Kahawai by: Patricia Grace

This book is about a little baby who's family was out catching paua. When some fish were swimming by. They thought she didn't have a family so they dragged her into the sea to live with them. Ten years later when she was playing with her poi what her real parents gave her when she was just a baby her parents saw the poi and saw that it was her so all her family went and got their pois so they played their pois farster,faster and faster until her poi lifted her out of the air after that she had to chuse to stay with her sea family or her land family she chose to stay with her land family during the day and her sea family in the late afternoon.

I hope you have fun reading.
Amy

Three little pigs by

The Three little pigs is about three little pigs who once lived together when they discoverd they should move out and live by there selfs but there is a wolf on the losse what will it do to harm the pigs?Read and find out.I recomened this for all age.

Two girls by a water fall

It's quiet a cool myth. It's about two young girls that create alot of living animals and foods and plants and plant  and try those foods so there good to eat. But then they do something wrong and die but there soul never rots.

The spotted cat by chrisine nicholls

There are a monster in the book and the monster gets lots of kids a cat turns into a little ant and so to the watchhole. The monster go to get a drink and the ant bite it on the lips with stunging and the monster dies.

By Matt

How africains think the the world was made

In the start their was only one god. Who was feeling sick. And started to spew up and spewed up the animals and people. Then ended up spewing every other thing in the world that was natural.And thats how the Africains thought the world was made.

Michael Morpurgo War Horse

This book is about a young horse who gets taken from his mother at a horse market. When he comes home there is a boy named Albert who looks after him.Then his dad says the next day that he has to start working on the farm in one week. Then after a couple of years great Britan was at war with Germany and Albets dad can't keep up with his morgage so he takes it to the army and the army buys him. Then Albert notices and he is only 13 so he asks the captin if he can join the army so he can be with his horse but he is under age. will Albert ever see his horse again?

Read this book to find out what happens.
By Caleb Judson

DARREN SHAN CIRQUE DU FREAK

This is a not true book that has alot of blood guts and heads coming of and people dieing.

This was a good book when you get it out it is not for people under 11


BY BRODIE GREEN:

MAUI AND THE SUN KALM

This legand is about how maui and his brothers try stop the sun from racing across the sky.
The sun rises and sets way to fast and maui and his brothers have no time to fish or hunt.
So maui makes a net  and trys to capture the sun and trys to pusuade him to slow down when he
crosses the sky.

The Rangers Apprentice book11 by John Flanagan

This book has got around about 17 stories in it. The stories were questions but were made into stories for example someone asked what happended when Will and Halt went to Celtica John Flanagan made an storie about it. I really like this book and I hope you will too.

By Caleb Turner

RATS

RATS is a story about a lady with heaps of rats. There in her bedroom ,her kitchen,her bathroom and every were else were you can see. The rats get taken away to a cold snowy mountain . The rats get so cold they beg to the lady if they could come back . She felt sorry for the rats so she let them come back .

Strance matter by Engle

This story is about acade coming a live this book is good for all ages these boys start playing the arcade after a little while they got to bed and it came alive



by dre

your turn mongolian simon

This story is about a mongolian soldier who has been caught by german soldiers and were transporting him somewhere via train the main german leader wanted a game of chess so the mongolian played and lossed just but the german leader wanted to play again so he. did the german leader enjoyed it so much he let the mongolian go.

The mauri stone

The mauri stone is a legend about a man trying to find the mauri stone so he makes a kite and sends it of to find the stone

By luke

Rabbits Gift George Shannon & Laura

I thought this was a good book because it shows not to be greedy and be generous

The thief of colours

A cool book about a bird how wants to make her nest surounding a little bit brighter.She steals colours from all over the place yellows, greens, blues.And in the end it looks beautiful  



By Hannah

The Fox and the Goat. Fable

There once was a fox that stuck in a well. A goat came to have a drink and the fox said that he needed help getting out so the goat jumped in. The fox stoud on the goats horns and hoped out and ran away and the poor old goat was stuck in the well.

Never belive what a fox says?

By Claudia

The Three Little Pigs


Once upon a time there was 3 little pigs. They left their mother to go to live on their own. The 1st little pig maded his house of straw. The 2nd little pig made his house of sticks. The 3rd pig made her house of brick.

A wolf came and siad to the 1st Little Pig: "Come out! Come out! Or I'll blow your house in!"

Read the fantasic short story that has been made into a number of movies. This fable is great and has been around for years!

By Kayla

The Bremen Town Musicians

This book is a fable about a donkey, a cat, a dog, and a rooster. All their owners wanted to get rid of them so they all ran away together to join the Bremen Town Band. They were walking, flying and troting through the woods when they found a house, there were three robbers in the house, so they broke in so they could sleep there.

Tyra

The Man and the Dog

This fable is about a man and a dog who couldnt see each other plus points and the morel of this story is always see each others positivs

By skyler

My Naughty Little Sister By Dorothy Edwards Illustrated By Shirley Hughes

I like this book because it reminds me of my naughty little sister. I recommend this book for 9 up
by maria

the peacock and the crane

the peacock and the cranes moral is butey dosnt get you anywhere

The mouse and the lion

This fable is about a lion who decides to let a little mouse go and in return the mouse saved the lion from getting killed by the hunters by chewing through the net thaqt the lion was trapped in.

By Skyler

RATS

RATS moral is dont take things for granted

Three wolf fables by Aesop

The wolf in the story is the king of this tribe. He puts a law out to everyone that they have to bring the food that they catch to a spot, so that everyone gets food so that wolf get more to eat. That morning wolf went hunting and took his catch to this den (wolf is very greedy and does not like to share the food).

By Matt 

Tuesday 25 October 2011

true stories great escapes simon mazey

in this true run away a man tries swimming to east germany from west germany and has swim 28 miles he starts by watching were the navy patrol and sorts out a plan to wicth way to go when he finaly leaves he swims past the navy and made it to his first goal a bouy in the ocean were he has a rest and continues to east germany he soon tires out and starts getting cramp all over his body he hears a ship and calls to go back to west germany he soon figured out he passed east germany because his compass broke so he could of made it but he failed.                                                              

Avantia call to war By Adam Blade

In Avantia there is three young kids and they are riders and they ride a magical creature. The characters are Gwen who rides a beast called Gulkien who has a tiger like body, large wings and very sharp and long claws. Another charecter is Castor also is a chosen rider and he rides a beast called Nera and she has sharp claws and long fangs. But the most important is a boy named Tanner and he rides a phoenix bird called firepos who has flames at the tips of her wings but has a scar that sometimes hurts her so much that if in the air she will tumble all the way to the ground.

read this book if your intrested in magical and action.

DARREN SHAN CIURQE DU FREAK BY DARREN SHAN

THIS book is a not true book so when i bought it when we went to lower hutt and so far i have read 12 chapters i recomended this for ages 11 and up



BY BRODIE GREEN

The Thief Of Colours

 this book is about a pukeko who thinks her chicks need to see some happy colours in the nest

my favourite character is pukeko because she wants her chicks to be happy (so in all she is a good mum)
the writer is Ben Brown
by maria

Star Wars Rebel Force

I thuik this book is good because it is intresten for 7 and over it is good because it is and aveter book and space .DONT FOR GET TO READ


By Dre rinner

Wednesday 28 September 2011

Beast quest by Adam Blade

Beast quest books are awsome. I like them because they are very interesting and cool to read.

by luke meyrick

My Favourite Author By Laura

My favourite author is J.k Rowling because she writes fantasy, thriller and magical stories.
The most inspiring book to me is The deathly hallows because its fulled with adventurist drama and emotional senses that are really exciting.
I would love to be able to write like Rowling because she wries in her on way and he has great ideas.

My Favouite Author By Nikora Hayes Ehu-Kiripatea

Athony Horowiz is my favouite author becuse he writes lot's of diferint book's and he writes my favouite my favourite programe midsomer murders . 

favourite author: Jeff smith

Jeff Smith is my favourite author because i like his bone comic books they are interesting funny scary and exciting I have read all of his books he is my all time favourite author!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tuesday 27 September 2011

My Favourite Authors By sophie

My favourite author is Jim Benton. Jim Benton writes a series of dear dumb diary books and his others books are about quite random things. Like alot of author  Jim Benton is an American author. alots of Jim's books are very humorous books and out of all the books i 'v seen of his they are for girls. i like reading his books because they are funny and cool to read.
                                                                                 By sophie

my favourite author was.........

In the ABC challenge my favourite author was J.K Rowling.
Rowling inspires me by her magical and fantasy books that turn into movies called harry potter.
My favourite book from her is  the deathly hallows the last book.
I would love to be able to write like J.K Rowling.

Fleabag Monkeyface

The book fleabag monkeyface is about 3 kids there names are Gene,Gerald and last but not least Fleabag Monkeyface.
Gene likes making lists especially of gross things,he dislikes bunny rabbits,favourite word unreal.
Gerald likes the sound of a toilet flushing,dislikes clean towels,fave word cool.
Fleabag Monkeyface likes eating nits,dislikes soap,clean towles and outher stuf clean,fave word ug-brilant.

so as you can see these books are funny/ books so have fun reading.

BATTLES AND QUESTS BY Anthony Horowitz

This book is about a man that goes though a maze to kill the horible minator that is locked up and he would kill everybody if he wasn't in there but he can't find the way out.                       


I have read lot's of book's but battles and quest's is the best out of all of them and im looking at buying some more book's by him

My Favourite Author By Caleb Turner

My favourite author is John Flanagan because he writes the kind of books that I really like. He writes  action, adventure, fantasy and also mideval books. I have got 10 of the Rangers Apprentice books and I can't wait till I get the rest of them. John Flanagan's best selling series are  the Rangers Apprentice series.

This is a picture of John Flanagan.                                   By Caleb Turner

My Favourite Author By Claudia

My Favourite author is Stephenie Meyer. My favourite book that she writes is twilight, new moon, Breaking dawn and eclipse. Stephenie makes books for kids and adults and they are very funny and cool.

Zac Power Test Driver Zac moon trip by H.I.Larry

Zac got in this jet to test drive it.He had to go to the moon station because it has deadly moon gue soooo to save the station Zac has to through biscuits the biscuits eats the deadly moon sooo. Zac has to write a report of the jet.
It is the same book cover as last time.

ABC author challange , I read 628 page it has made me read much much more page. My favitoure book was (Hit It) it is about soccer and it is a comic book like to read comics about sport.
By Matt

My Favourite Author

 My favourite author is William Nicholson. He is my favourite author because of all his great fantisey books. So far I have read 1,400 pages, 5 authors and 6 books. I have enjoyed the A.B.C author challenge because I have been able to find diffrent authors that I like.


by Caleb Judson

My Favourite Author By Ashley

My favourite author is Rachel Caine she writes the Morganville vampire series. I like her books because they are full of mystery and adventure and they are always interesting from the start to the end. My most favourite is called Ghost town its book 9 in the vampire series.
By: Ashley

My favorite author by Kenan

My favorite author is J.K.Rowling becuase she writes alot of fantasy books like Harry Potter. I like wizards and potions. If  I could turn my brother into a frog, I would.  ew but I wont eat him. BY KENAN SWORD

Frankie Foster Pick 'n' Mix By Jean Ure

This book is a good book because you learn about people and it is a funny book in some parts.This term we have been doing a reading challenge.I have just started a new book called My Sister Jodie. The ABC author challenge is really fun because you can experience more different authors.

My favourite author

My favourite author is Knife and Packer. They are my favourite authors because they write really funny books which are cartoons like the naked truth of  father Christmas. they are so humours that in one book i couldn't stop laughing. Knife and Packer are awesome.
                                                              By Bonnie Taia

Escape From Pyramid X by Dan Jolley

Escape From Pyramid X is a book where you can control the action, where to go and what to do, I recommend this book for ages 7 and up. Escape deadly traps, thiefs and mummies.

I have read 6 books in total and 4 authors. I have enjoyed doing the A.B.C. author challange because it has made me be able to read different books that I thought I would not like to read. My total of pages read is 1777.

By Caleb Turner.

My fav writer by Maria

My favorite writer has got to be John Flanagan
My reasons why:
1 because the main character Will reminds me of a very old friend of mine.
2 because if someone else wrote the book there would be a lot more romance but John has no romance.
3 because they take a bit of time to read and the action never stops.