Month: June 2016

This week I have read Horrible Histories The Terrible Tudors this book is just like all the other Horrible Histories books it is goory and also has cool , interesting and also disgusting facts and this is also about the terrible Tudors. Henry VII, Henry VIII, Edward VI, Lady Jane Grey, Mary I (Mary Tudor) and Elizabeth I which I find fascinating.

One of my favourite chapters in this book is the chapter Terrible Tudor Schools this chapter is all about the schools in Tudor times and about what they looked like and my favourite part the stupid rules in their schools one being ‘ No scholar shall wear a dagger or any other weapon. They shall not bring to school any stick or bat, only their meat knife’ when I first read this I was thinking they say to not bring weapons and then their told to bring a knife to school for gods sake that is a weapon.

Another thing which this book has is DIY’s one being how to make a pen out of a goose quill, and it gives you very precise instructions.

I really liked reading this book and when I first got it I knew it would be interesting as the Tudors are quite fascinating. In my reading scale I would rate this a 4.2/5 which is really good for a non-fiction book as I normally don’t like or read non-fiction books but this project might have changed that.

Dear Mr McKellen, 

Hello my name is Joao Tiago Silva Azevedo but you can call me Tiago. I am a huge fan of your work, especially when you starred in The Lord Of The Rings. Mr McKellen I am still amazed how you went from being a kid in Burnley to this actor who is known worldwide. To be truthful you are my favourite actor.

This term i have been reading a wonderful book which goes
by the name of ‘The 5 Children On The Western front’ by
Kate Saunders. When I was picking my book to read I saw this
and just from the front cover I already had an idea of what
the book would of been about it was based on WW1 or WW2.

As I alway do when I find a book I read the first chapter. I
was amazed just from the first paragraph I almost cried ,
That was when my adventure started. When I told my sister about this
book she said did you know that Kate Saunders apparently wouldn’t of
wrote this book if her son didn’t commit suicide.

The characters as i went through the story became more and more
interesting the 5 Children (The main Characters) are called
Cyril,Anthea,Robert,Jane,Hilary and the funniest of all lamb she was
named this for the reason that the first ever word se said was baa . In my
own opinion my favourite character out of the bunch is Cyril as he is
really interesting in this book as he is the oldest.

Another positive thing from this book as i can’t think of any negatives is
that Kate Saunders did an extremely good job showing us the impact of
the war as in the book she talks aboutFood shortages, lawns turned into
potato fields, young girls driving ambulances in London and in France,
life and death in the trenches are all there this is how you know Kate
Saunders did her research to make sure all she said was true

The 5 Children On The Western Front is now one of my favourite books of
all time I a scale of 1 to 5 I would definitely rate it a 4.8 this is because Kate
Saunders did an extremely good job with this and I gave it 0.5 higher
rating as i love WW1 and WW2 books well done Kate Saunders this is an
amazing book would recommend to others.