The Hero of Little Street By Phoebe Hussey

The Hero of Little Street is a fabulous Comic Style book from the book week 'Best Picture Book' Short List for 2010.It was written by Gregory Rogers and Published by 'Allen and Unwin' in 2009.

The Hero of little Street is a hilarious,adventurous, comic style book about a cheeky little boy who gets stuck in a painting from the 18th century, running away from a group of bullies! With a few twists and turns along the way,this book is generally funny and very adventurous.

I extremely enjoyed 'The hero of little Street' and believe it was a very imaginitive and heart warming book, as there is an obivious bond between the boy and the little brown dog from the painting. I would recommend this book for classes 3 and up. As there are no picture's and it could be hard for a younger class to comprehend.

Review: Shumann the Shoeman

Shumann the Shoeman was written by John and Stella Danalis, it was shortlisted by the childrens book council 2010.

'Shumann the Shoeman' captures the life of a prestigous shoeman in a large town, little does he know, a large shoe factory has recentley opened across the road from his modest shop. Shumann is stunned, all his buyers had been hood winked!!, he decides to move to a small forest area he makes many new friends but little does he know something terrible is about to happen to Shumann leaving many of his friends devestated.

I strongly believe Shumann the shoeman is a wonderful book for children who love unique and quirky books and dream of creating art. I would rate it 10/10 as it is a wonderful book, although if I were the author I would change the ending when Shumann dies as I believe many young children would become upset!. I believe children 8+ should read this book,

By Olivia

Mr Chicken Goes To Paris

Mr Chicken Goes To Paris

(Monsier Poulet va a' Paris)

For book week there were several books of a high standard,that I enjoyed. There was one book that stood out it was "Mr Chicken goes to Paris".Over all it was my favourite book. it is by the well known author Leigh Hobbs,who has written other short listed books.

I particularly loved this book because of it's cultural view of Paris.I have been to Paris before and have experienced these all these places.the other thing I liked about the cultural aspect is the language,on the tour buses and the post cards everything is french!

Mr chicken is such a character! even though he is a softy on the inside.His moody chicken face is what brings the paparazzi coming.

I believe that this book can be enjoyed by all people but would be particularly enjoyed by 5-8 year olds.

By Ella

Steve's Review On The Bear And The Chook

Bear And The Chook

One of my favourite books from book week is The Bear And The Chook it was written by Lisa Shanahan and illustrated by Emma Quay. The reason I like this book is because it has lots of repetition. Because on every page at the beginning it says flomp,flomp,scratch,scratch,flomp,flomp,scratch.

Another thing I like about the book is that every time the chook says I want to go home they reach there new destination. Something else I like about the book is at the end when they finally make it to the beach,the bear gets hit by a wave so they go back home and this time its the opposite. The bear is saying I want to go home but the chook says we have reached our destination. I liked the illustrations because it looked like what ever they used to do it they took their time.

Bear and Chook by the sea by Benji

My favourite book for book week is bear & chook by the sea. The reason why I like this book is that bear at the start he was full of nature. Another reason why I like it was because on the way to the sea chook was scared but bear was scared on the way back. The thing I want to ask why bear thought he was not afraid of anything.

Bear And Chook by the sea By Raja

One of my favourite books from book week is bear and chook by the sea . The writer is Lisa Shanahan and the illustrator is Emma Quay.

I really like this book because it is really funny because in the beginning bear says to chook lets go to the sea and chook says wheres the sea and bear says its around the pound under the bridge through the forest and over the mountain. What said chook that's so far away far for a chook but short for a bear. On the way to the beach they went round the pond chook herd a sound that was like this honky-tonk-tonk-tonk-tonk! whats that said chook its a frog said bear. They went under the bridge and chook herd rickety-clickety-rickety-clickety chook says i want to go home but bear says look there is the mountain ping ting ting ting chook herd all those funny noise and they finally came to the beach then bear goes in the water and gets dunked and the same thing happens but its bear who does it this time. I also like the illustrations because it really explains the story as well as the the writing.

Fearless By Alex in Year 3

My favourite book from book week is Fearless written by Colin Thompson and illustrated by Sarah Davis.

I like this book because the pictures are very detailed and good.


I like this book because the pictures are the opposite to the text.


I like this book because the picture make Fearless look cute because bull dogs doesn't normally look cute.

The Terrible Plop by Christina.B

My favourite book from book week is The Terrible Plop by Ursula Dubosarsky. I like this book because it is a rhyming book and it is also funny because a little rabbit is afraid of "The Terrible Plop" and in the end, the rabbit doesn't care but the bear is terrified!

It is interesting because for the bears fur she used real fur and for the chocolate cake she used real cake.I love the illustrations because they are nice and simple.

I recommend this book for ages 5 and up.

By Christina.B

Kip by Georgina

I think this book is creative because it has colourful pictures and I also liked the part when Kip says cock a doodle do because the title looks fancy. It has lots of nice pictures and some of the characters are: Mrs Bea, Kip, grandma, little Lucy Cooper, Mrs piper, baby Piper, Mr Hill, farmer Hunt. It is a nice book because it has lots of nice pictures.

The Wrong Book by Lara

My favourite book from book week is the wrong book by Nick Bland.

One of the reasons why the wrong book is my favourite is because it uses lots of charaters that you wouldn't normally use like an elephant!!

I also like how it repeats the first sentence so you don't know what your up for!! This book is for all ages because it has very simple sentences, not complicated ones which make young readers enjoy and understand the book. When I first read the book with my class I was very surprised I thought the book would be boring but is wasn't. I recommend this book for all ages even adults would like the book. There is no negative comments from me on this book!

The wrong book by JOSH in year 3

One of my favourite books from book week is The wrong book. This is because Nick Bland draws and writes funny pictures and comments from the characters. Nicholas Ickle is funny because his face shows his anger and it is funny because one of the monsters jumps on Nicholas hat and the other one is the other monster looks up the the elephant's trunk. This book should have an other ending. Like every one goes back on stage and holds up the letters from the wrong book.

To the top end of Australia by Michael Brancalion

I like this book because the writer has chosen the most suitable words for the pages and he has also drawn excellent pictures that match the sentence perfectly. Its funny even though there aren't many words. I also like how it is written, it looks like a child's holiday journal. It is funny in some bits where it might say something but the opposite is close by in the illustration, E.g. it might say there are no such thing as sea monsters but there will be a sea monster close by.

This book is written and illustrated by Roland Harvey, I don't like how the words are kind of spaced out and I got lost in the words a little bit.

The Wrong Book By Caitlin-Rose Brincat

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One of my favourite books from book week is The Wrong Book by Nick Bland. One of the reasons why I like that book is because it's about a little boy who's trying to tell a story. Also what I liked about the book is that there is a lot of characters such as a monster,a queen and also some rat's . My favourite part of the book was when Nicholas Ickle said my name is Nicholas Ickle and this book is about a queen that bit was really funny.I also liked the pictures in the book they were good and i liked the facial expressions as well. The wrong book is a wonderful book to read.

The Scorpian By Jamie

The Scorpion



A hundred million years ago there existed a scorpion. The scorpion was outstanding at camouflage. One day the scorpion set off to find some treasure. Every two miles he came across a beast. The first beast he had to pass whore gold armour and a silver s word. The scorpion tried to sting him with his outstanding tail, but it didn’t work. Then the scorpion bit him and the beast died. He walked another two miles, suddenly another beast stood before him. The beast had black armour but the scorpion had a secret sword. The beast and the scorpion had a sword fight. The scorpion jumped up and stabbed the beast and then started digging for treasure and found a chest full of gold. He brought it home with him and was very generous in sharing his chest of gold, bringing him fantastic fortune and much pleasure to the end of his days.


By Jamie Karabesinis

My Holidays By Federico

My holidays
By Federico Anderson

My holidays were very interesting. I spent almost all the time at LOOSH because I am going on holidays in August to China.
At LOOSH we did ice skating. We went to see The Magic Pudding. We went to Centre Point Tower. I hardly ever go ice skating so that was a lot of fun. The Magic Pudding was very funny. I have not been to Centre Point Tower in a long time.
I saw Everton play Sydney FC. Everton won one – nil. We were sitting right in front of the goal and saw Everton score. The scorer for Everton was number 22. Sydney had two really good shots but they were straight at the keeper.
I played soccer on two Saturdays. We played two Enfield teams. One game was 1 – 1. The other game we lost 4 - 1.
I visited my Nanna and we saw The Karate Kid at the movies. Nanna made great chocolate muffins for me. I also bought some FIFA DVDs and the old Karate Kid DVDs.
Mum was away for the second week of the holidays. I felt sad she was gone but we spoke each night.
Thankyou for listening all about my holidays.

My holidays By Jamie

My Holidays

On Saturday 26th July 2010, I played soccer and won 5 – 4. When I got home with my family, I played with Molly (my dog) when we finished playing I had a shower and relaxed while mum packed to go to granddads in the Blue Mountains. My mum came, my sister came and my dog and cat came. When we got there we unpacked our luggage and explored granddads property.
The next day we played on the farm and climbed trees. We found some things that belonged to granddads in his private dump.
On Tuesday we went to the Zig Zag railway it was really fun because we learnt a lot about steam trains and other trains.
On Wednesday we chilled out and played with a billy cart. It was really fun playing with the billy cart because I went down a really steep hill which made the cart go fast.
On Thursday we went to see the Three Sisters and we got to go on a special train called the scenic railway that goes down a cliff, it was very steep. To get back up we went on the scenic cable way it went back up the cliff and dropped us off at the top, then we went back to granddads.
On Friday my aunty came up and we had a grape fruit fight, I hit her with a grape fruit and won the battle.
On Saturday we had to leave granddads it was sad that we had to go. To conclude I had the best holiday ever.

By Jamie Karabesinis

oscar.g blogger

Blogging

A blog is a online journal, it can even be your own private diary. Once you are finished writing it you publish it but before you publish it you have to edit your work so there are no capitals or full stops in the right or wrong spot. One thing you could do is add stuff to it like pictures, videos and more.

I have finished writing one to David ledge, and he wrote the book bamboozled. It’s a really funny book. I have even published it and added a picture. I have started one but I haven’t finished it, and I wrote about Jeff Kidney and he writes really funny books like Diary of a Wimpy Kid. In the future I might make my own diary, or journal. I won’t tell anyone except for my mum. Blogging helps me learn in away that you are free to write about anything, when you are allowed.

James' blogger

Blogging

A Blog is a website that is kind of like a journal. You can use a Blog by logging onto the website. It shows you things like changing fonts and colors of words. You create a Blog by logging onto a website called blogger. First you write your story in a book, after that you log on to Blogger and start to make your Blog. Blogging helps me learn in guided reading because it improves my computer skills and it has great websites for writing and spelling to help me get better at them. Some of the Blogs I have written are called Deltora Quest and Bamboozled. In the future I would like to put 2 more books on my Blog page.

By James Mullin

Emma's how to use blogger

Blogging

A Blog is like a workbook on the internet with a post which is a place where who you write.
To create a Blog you click new post and write what you want to write for example I want to write a Blog to Roald Dahl about the book Fantastic Mr Fox as it was very funny, but also scary.
Blogging helps me learn, and it helps me to type faster, and publish my work. I can see how my friends did with their Blog by reading other posts.
One Blog that I am still writing is Bamboozled and after Bamboozled I am going to write one on Fantastic Mr Fox.
I want to add to my Blog is a movie, more interesting comments and one of my funny jokes.

By Emma Cruzado

Benji's blogger

Newsletter for Blogging

A Blog is a kind of journal online. You can add work to your Blog. How I first did my Blog was to get a book and read it. Then I would write my opinion on the book I just read. Then I would go to my teacher Miss Bourke to edit and then I would be ready to publish.
Blogging helps me learn by going on the internet and improving my computer skills. Another thing that helps me to Blog is to share my opinion.
In the future with my next Blog, I am going to get someone to record me while I’m telling my opinion.

By Benji

Amber's Review

At moment I'm reading Go Girl Besties Beach Break. It's about, these two girls Shae and Michiko going over to their friend Mia's Beach House but Shae and Michiko are acting weird and it's up to Mia to find out what's going on with them.

I for one liked this book because it's with some people do some weird stuff and I also liked it because it was abit suspicious with Mia trying to figure out why Shae and Michiko were acting weird.

Maddie's letter to Electra Brown

Electra Brown
27 Queen st Annandale
SYD Australia 5/8/10

Dear Electra Brown,

I have recently read the book all about you "Life at the shallow end" I really enjoyed this book because it was funny and very exciting. quick question how is your little brother is he still shoplifting? If he is try to be understanding. How is Candy and your dad? and How is your mum and Phil?. Have any of them gotten married? Lucy, how is she? Has she become a model. Tell me how is life at the shallow end?

From Maddie

Amy's awsome blog on "The Witches"

The witches is a very imaginative story by Roald Dahl. I recommend the book "The witches" to stage 2 (year3/year4) and also 10 year olds to 9 year olds. The book has many great characters and positions. So if your interested in adventure, cheeky and funny books I recommend you to read the wonderful book "The witches". Be careful you don't know what wicked plans you might hear.

Steves Cressida Cowell Questions

Cressida Cowell

Small st

Dragon town 9101112

Dear Cressida Cowell,

I love your Hiccup books but I have only read "How to train your dragon" but I want to read them all.I loved this book but I was really scared and sad that Toothless was going to die, at the end when they were sending him away on the boat for the funeral. Then I got so excited when he came back up and started flying back to Hiccup. I really want to read your other Hiccup books.

Now I want to ask you some questions.

The first question I want to ask you is how old are you now?

The second question I want to ask you is where do you live?

The third question I want to ask you is what gave you the inspiration to write about dragons?

The fourth question I want to ask you is what made you come up with the characters names like Hiccup?

The last question I want to ask you is what is your favourite Hiccup book?

From Steve

Francesca blog on Dont Read Any Further

Pat Moon

25 Thorby Ave

Leichhardt 2040

5-8-10

Dear Pat Moon

I love your book called Don't read Any Further it is hilarious. It's so funny when Finch got asked out on a date with Jay, it was also funny when the teacher ask the children to write down their worries and one of the boys wrote down wanting people to like you Pat Moon that is your best book ever. I would recommend this book from ages to 10-13.

From

Francesca

SEB'S LETTER TO ADAM BLADE

Adam Blade

21 Beast lane

Quest 50

Dear Adam Blade,

I love your book Beast Quest. I think it' really interesting because it looks like Tom is going to die but he survives. Now I have questions for you, do you have any kids? Do they like your books? how many books are you going to write? I like how you say the beasts name and what they are, like Rashouk the cave troll, I think that's really cool. I have a few more questions for you. How old are your children if you have any? How old were you when you started writing Beast Quest? How old are you now? How did you come up with the names Tom, Elenna, Storm and Silver? how did you get the title of Beast Quest? I like how Tom and Elenna win prizes after they defeat a beast. I just finished the book called Mortaxe: The skeleton warrior.

From Seb

Tom's post on blogging

Blogging

A blog is like a book on the Internet and you create a blog by starting off on Google and type in blogger. Com. Secondly iv ask Miss Bourke to type in her Gmail account and her password. After that you type up your blog and when you don’t want to do it anymore, you can name it what ever you want. Then click on save as draft. Next if you want to get back on the blog you click on edit draft. When you’re finished you can edit it. Then you can get a picture for it and put it on the blog. After that you click on post blog and then it is posted.


I think that blogging helps me to learn my typing skills and my hand co ordinations.


I made a blog called “Tom’s Bamboozled letter” and I thought it was a bit complicated, but it was fun in the end.


In the future I will add a video talking about all the fun things you can do on a blog.

Jake's blog about blogging

Blogging

In Guided Reading we use a Blog. It is like a journal, but online that people can see but first you have to log in the password. First you have to draft in your book next you have to type it on the computer.

Once you finish you can publish and write messages like “wow that’s really good”.

It teaches you to always check back and make sure you haven t any mistakes to get good marks..

I have published one Blog about Bamboozled. Once you finish you could add a picture. I also am doing one on the Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney.

In the future I want to make my Blog more exciting so people can write good comments on my work and on other peoples Blog post. I would help other people and maybe they could help me.

By Jake Velovski

Geronimo Stilton By G Pagani

Geronimo Stilton

Joanna St

Hurry Hills 2054

5/8/10

Dear Geronimo,

I've started to read your books and I really like your adventures. The books that I have read are I'm too Fond of my Fur, Cat and Mouse in a Haunted House,The Temple of the Ruby of Fire and now I am reading Lost Treasure of the Emerald Eye,The Secret of Cacklefur Castle,The Mona Mousa Code and The Curse of the Chesse Pyramid.

Questions?

1.Why does your sister always comes in your office with her motocycle?

2.Why does Trap always prank you?

From Giuseppe Pagani

Jacobs Blog On Blogging

Blogging

A blog is like a diary that you can look at on the Internet instead of a book.

To make a blog you need to type in http://stfiacresguidedreading.blogspot.com in your URL then you need to log onto blogger, go onto new post, write your letter, check if you’ve got correct spelling and punctuation if you want to edit a post then when you log on you go edit post instead of new post, then once you’ve finished you save it then you go on publish post. If you want to look at your post you go on home page.

The reason why blogging helps me is because I learn how to type faster and blogging also helps me because you’re learning about books you haven’t read when you look at somebody else’s post.

I’ve only written one blog and the book is called, Bamboozled by David Legge. I wrote it to Grandpa and I asked him a few questions.

I want to compare a movie to a book, add a trailer of Harry Potter, and write a response on my favorite book.

By Jacob Nobrega.

Gemma's Blog on Jessica Watson

The Adventures of Jessica on Sea

TODAY there IS a girl named Jessica Watson, and she sailed all around the world by herself.
One day, when she was sailing she came across a really big storm and she got through it. A couple of day’s later; she bumped into a cargo ship from China, and got away with it. When she left Sydney Harbour, this is the way she went. She sailed through the Tasman Sea, then the Indian Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, and then the Pacific Ocean and then back to Australia. One day she ran out of ‘nutella’so she had to eat boring fruit. When she came through the harbour, there was a really big celebration ship and heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaps of boats. One day there was a girl named Abby Sunderland, and she tried to beat Jessica’s record but she didn’t because she fell over by 11mt waves and helped her sailing boat get back up.

Blog: Jessica Watson blog
Pictures: pictures of Jessica Watson/images
Written by: Gemma.Alice.Dessent

mia blogging

Blogging

In Guided Reading we have been doing Blogs. A Blog is like a journal except you can communicate with other people and tell them your opinion of something your doing.
Blogs help you in Guided Reading by making you better at your editing and better at typing.

You don’t just get to show your work, but you can show most of your Guided Reading class.
I have a post on Bamboozled. I wrote the letter to Grand dad. You had to write what you liked about the book and, what you didn’t like and ideas that the author could have done.

In the future if I make a Blog it would be about books. I could also make my own video of a book. I like and add it to the Blog.

By Mia Van Dort-Gilmore

Blogging by Veronica

Blogging

In Guided Reading we are all working on Blogs. A Blog is like a diary but instead of looking in a diary you can look at Blogs on the internet.

You can create a Blog by typing about something and putting pictures on the page but before you are finished you have to edit your work. I think that blogs help people to type on a computer more often.

I have done a blog about the book Bamboozled by David Legge. I wrote my letter to David Legge. I gave the book 9 out of 10.

In the future I will check my editing blogs for more punctuation more pictures and download some videos.

By Veronica

Gemma blogging

Blogging

Hi my name is Gemma, blogging is an online sight where you can write messages on and it is fun. When you want to write a message on there, you log in with your Gmail email address and password. Then click on new post and start writing.

I reckon there good for kids because you learn more computer skills for example like editing. When you are on blogger you can add videos, messages and pictures.

In the past we have been writing a blog on Bamboozled and on the book that we were reading.

In the future I would like to make a video clip on ‘the silver horse’ with my best friends. In the video clip I would like to act out when the kids got a horse and the mum did not want the horse.

By Gemma Dessent

SEB'S LETTER ABOUT BLOGGING

BLOGGING
A Blog is like a journal online, that you can write comments for the person that wrote it. You create a Blog by typing what you want then you go to a button up the top called spell check. Spell check highlights the words you spell wrong. Then at the bottom there are two boxes, one is called save as a draft or publish.

Blogging helps your typing skills and teaches you to how to use a blog while your young. I have written a blog called Seb’s letter to Grandpa. In the future I would to add a video clip to my blog. I would add a scene of the book I was reading and link it to other websites.

By Sebastian Ladogna

Giuseppe blogging

Blogging

A Blog is like a journal that people post to tell other people about a book and then people would like to read the book. To create a Blog you go on the internet and type in http://stfiacresguidedreading.blogspot.com and then Miss Bourke logs in and then you click on new post and a blank page will come up. A Blog helps you to learn your typing skills and how to edit a post. A Blog that I have written was called Bamboozled I also wrote about the book Pog. In the future I would add funny movies and funny books.

By Giuseppe Pagani

Jamies blog of a blog

Blogging

A Blog is like a journal but on the Internet. What you do is type up a review or a story, or another post. When you finish typing your post you can add a movie or a picture or both.

For E.g. when I started my first Blog, I read a book then I did a review on the book, and typed it on to the computer. When I finished I added a picture, then put it on the Blog.

A Blog helps your skills at editing and comprehension. It helps you at editing because you have to edit your post before putting it on the Blog. It helps you with comprehension because you normally do a post on a book, and you have to read a book and know what happens.

To get on the Blog you type in your G mail account on the web page.
In the future I would like to add a movie made from me, on Skullduggery Pleasant. I would like to do this because I do not yet have any movies on my Blog.

By Jamie Karabesinis

lara blogger

Blogging

A Blog is an online journal, which other people can view and also leave comments.
You create a Blog by clicking new post and you start writing about what you want to write about. Then you publish, but before you do that you need to edit and if you want to add images or videos or both you can.

Blogging helps me in Guided Reading because it helps me with my computer skills and editing skills.

I have written one Blog about a book Bamboozled. I had to write a draft in my book then typed it on the computer.

In my next blog I would like to compare a book to a movie, and I will like to add a video.

By Lara Mason

Alex's blog on blogging

Blogger

Blogging is like a journal or diary on the net.
To create a Blog you enter this in Google: blogger.com. Then you enter your Gmail account in the sign in. After that you press new post. If you want to edit your work press edit post.

Using a Blog helps me practice my typing, writing, computer and thinking skills. This also helps me learn how to spell a lot better by writing more often and typing more often. Also this helps me improve on writing more advanced because if it is high-quality yours will be read out to the class.

I have only written one Blog it was in relation to a book called Bamboozled by David Legge.

In the future I hope to learn how to insert video from youtube or somewhere else. Learning how to insert animation would be cool too.

By Alexander Laundess

Joe's blog on blogging

What is a Blog?

A Blog is like an online journal where you can write a recount, a letter and much more.
First you have to write rough copy. Then you go to mew post and write your paragraph. You can change add a picture and add videos but first edit it. You can add colour and change fonts to your writing then let Miss Bourke check your work then post it.
I wrote a Blog about a book called Bamboozled and a letter the main character in the book How to train your dragon.
When you have finished people can comment on it. Blogging can improve your typing skills and your computer skills.
I would want to make my writing more advanced and add videos of me reading a book response of what the book is compared to the movie.

By Joe-Anthony Carrozzo

Christina.B Blogger.

Blogging

A Blog is an online website where you can post view and comment on things.

You create a Blog clicking on a button like new post, and post something like fake letters, reviews and many more.

In Guided Reading, blogging helps me with my computer skills. I have had to write a letter for the book Bamboozled, where I used my typing and editing skills.

I have done one Blog, that was Bamboozled by David Legge. I wrote it to the grandfather, one of the characters in the story.
In the future I would like to post a movie and book review and add a video.

By Christina Brancalion