Cinderpaws
Once upon a time there was a family of cats who lived in a village of caves. The cats were called Newt, Toadette, Griselda, and Snowfur. Newt was Griselda and Toadette’s mother and Snowfur’s stepmother. Snowfur had just finished kitten-hood when her mother had fallen sick with a horrible cough and later died, so her [...]
I am reviewing (and comparing) Coraline the book to Coraline the movie. The book was written by Neil Gaiman, who also wrote the Newberry Award book The Graveyard Book. (If you read the Times, you will know about my teacher, Monica Edinger’s review on it.)
Here are some of the differences; in the book Coraline’s family [...]
This is a post about my Amistad poem. The Amistad was a ship that took Sarah Margru Kinson (use link for more info) and Joseph Cinque from Cuba to another place in Cuba. I didn’t exactly remember that when I wrote my poem so I have to use poetic license. Poetic license is a right [...]
The book The King of Mulberry Street, by Donna Jo Napoli is a great historical fiction book, based on the life of her maternal grandfather. He came from Napoli on a cargo ship. His mother payed for his passage because she wanted him to have a better life in America. Also, Donna Jo Napoli’s grandfather [...]
Elizabeth Alexander read and spoke about her poems with the Dalton School’s fourth grade, on Friday, Feburary 6th, 2009 in the morning. You might know her poetry books, and here are two of them; American Sublime (starring the Amistad epic and Sarah Margru Kinson) and Miss Crandall’s School for Young Ladies and Little Misses of [...]
I read a long post about Sarah Margru Kinson, who was sold into slavery, and then returned back to Africa, which was posted by Monica Edinger. Some people who know the story think it is a Cinderella story and I think it is too, since her story kind of follows a Cinderella plot. A few [...]
I am writing a review about a play called Oliver. If you have read the book Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens you probably know the plot to the story. Some of my favorite characters were Bill Sykes, Dodger, Bet (even though she isn’t a main character) Oliver, and Nancy. My favorite scene is the one [...]
As everyone probably knows, Barack Obama is our new president!! I don’t know if you did, but I happpened to see his inauguration live on television. If you missed it, or haven’t seen it yet, why not read this post and find out more? Millions of people were in the audience, most waving the American [...]
The picture above is the front cover of my oral history book My Mom Comes To America, by me! It is about my mom( which is kind of obvious) and she immigrated here from America. My mom came from Trinidad and she’s lived here for 18 years. My book is not published, so you will not [...]
I am c17pm. I am writing about some blog posts by a mysterious person called c16sh. This person has some great blog posts, such as The Wizard of Oz, Book or Movie?? I promise you this person’s blog has very interesting posts so visit it! Also, you can read some of the comments written by [...]