Fantastic Mr. Fox - Personal Response

Genre: The genre would be fantasy because there are talking animals involved.


Summary: This book is about a clever little fox named Fantastic Mr. Fox. He lives underground beside a tree trying to feed his wife and 4 kids. To feed his family he has to sneak into 3 farms that are owned by cruel farmers named Boggis, Bunce and Bean. These weren't just weekly visits they were nightly visits.  Fantastic Mr . Fox steals livestock available on each farm. The farmers then try to dig up his burrow first using shovels then using caterpillar tractors. While they were doing that underground Fantastic Mr Fox was trying to dig deeper. The farmers were determined to get that fox so they tried so many different things. Fantastic Mr. Fox outsmarted them and dug tunnels to all of their farms and even Beans underground cider storage. The family ended up invited friends and family to dinner with them.


I rate this book a 9/10 and I recommend you to read it.

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Phantom Of The Subway - Personal Response

The Genre of this book is Adventure and mystery/detective because they set off to uncover the mystery.



Summary: Its all about Geronimo Stilton and his friends that set off on an adventure to find the
creature in the subway. They have to pack all the right gear to catch this Creature because it is their worst nightmare.


Personal Response: I enjoyed this book because it was an interesting book to read with all of the cool pictures to go with it. I like how the book has words in the right front relating to what the word is.
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Overall I really liked this book.                                                                                                                                                  

Esio Trot - Personal Response

The genre of this book is romance because the tortoise brings the two people together.


Summary - Its about a lady that  lives in an apartment and loves her tortoise but he was just to small.So the man that lives above replaces it with a different tortoise each night

If I could ask the author anything I would ask Roald Dahl how he came up with the story.

                                                                 
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10 Readalongs - Personal Response

Genre - The genre is poetry/jokes because they are poems and rhymes. 

They are a bunch of kids poems in separate books. One of my favourites was one about a sailboat race and most of them don't finish. Also it has cool writing depending what they crashed into. If you like poems and 
rhymes you should read this book.

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A Rocket In My Pocket - Personal Response

The genre of this book is humor poetry/ jokes because it has lots of fun poetry in it.

Summary - It is a book with heaps of poetry and funny rhymes. Some of my favourites are...

Eenie, meenie, minie, mo
 catch a thief by the toe 
If he hollers make him pay
 50 dollars every day.                                             


Sam, Sam, the butcher man, 
washed his face in a frying pan
combed his hair with a wagon wheel, 
and died with a toothache in his heel .       

My favourite character is Sam from Sam, Sam the butcher man poem.
He is my favourite because he does really silly stuff that normal people wouldn't do.

If you like poetry you should read this book.

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The Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe - Personal Response

The genre of this book is adventure and fantasy because the little girl finds a new world in the back of a wardrobe.

Summary:

 Its about a girl that Finds a wardrobe in a old bedroom at her new house. She falls down the back of it and ends up in a mysterious world called Narnia and she meets a faun and they become friends. Also there is magical creatures that the witch has ruled for lots of years.
Find out what the faun is.

I liked this book and I think you should read it.

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The Twits - Personal Response

Response - I really liked this book because it had awesome characters that were very funny and that thought of great things to do to stop the horrible people getting the birds. Also I liked this book because it was written by my favourite author Roald Dahl.

The Genre of the twits is humor because it has things like pranks and naughty things that the characters do.


Summary - Its all about two people who are horrible to their pet monkeys. The birds that come to their  place by sticking super glue on the trees and making the birds stick on the trees for them to eat in a stew.

Favourite character - My favourite characters were the roly poly bird and the monkeys. The roly poly bird had funny features like massive stripy feathers. Also the monkeys had to stand upside down all the time and they even had to eat upside down.You should read this book if you like a bit of humor.

Do you like Roald Dahl books ?

Cricket God-Personal Response

The Genre of my book is Humor because it has lots of funny things like getting hit with a cricket ball and the boy in the story is REALLY bad at sport.



Summary:Its all about a boy who hates sport, but just because he got a goal in soccer one day his dad thinks he has a passion.The boy soon has to find out by his Dad, that he has to play cricket.



Personal response:I enjoyed this book because it had a little bit of humor and it had cartoons to go with the words.I really like how his dad is really silly and he thinks his boy has a passion but he DOESN'T.

If I could ask the author one thing I would ask him how he came up with the book because it would be cool to find out why.

What would you ask the author?
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The Adventures of Captin Underpants- personal response

The genre of my book is humor because it is filled with pranks and funny comics made by two little boys at their school.

There are two little boys that pull pranks and have heaps of fun until something unexpected happens. The boys come up with a a very special superhero in their comics along the way but there is someone who wants to stop them doing their pranks and superhero comics.


I have really enjoyed this book because it has pictures and loads of funny things to read. I recommend for you to read this book. My favourite  part of  the book was when the  two little boys made the principal do what ever they want with a little ring.

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