The Jungle Book REVIEW

By: Rudyard Kipling
Pages: 277
Publisher: Tor Books

This edition of The Jungle Book includes a Biographical Note, Foreward, Preface, and Afterword by Jane Yolen.

I chose to read the Jungle Book for my English book analysis paper :)
I'm glad I did.
The Jungle Book is a collection of short stories, but they all take place out in the wild. The most famous ones are about Mowgli and his adventures in the jungle, how the other animals react to having him there etc.

This is not like the Disney movie version. Baloo isn't as free spirited as in the movie, and Mowgli doesn't really dance around.
It's a very powerful story though, that reflects how our society is build today. If you are looking for a book that will be fun to read but at the same time leave you with a lot of political questions this the book for you to read!

xoxo Lihini

Var är Nicke Nyfiken? / Where is Curious George? REVIEW

Av Margret G.H.A. Rey

Sidor: 28

Förlag: Rabén & Sjögren

Nicke är en mycket nyfiken liten apa. Nu har han hittat olika hus, det ena mer fantastiskt än det andra: en koja, ett slott, en husvagn, en fyr ...

"Vad finns det där inne? Det undrar vi så. Vi följer med Nicke som nu knackar på!"

Inuti husen finns det många fina saker som är svåra att hitta. Kan du hjälpa honom att leta? Och ser du var han själv gömmer sig någonstans? Kom och följ med Nicke Nyfiken på upptäcktsfärd i denna leta-och-hitta-bok på vers!

Before you ask, no I didn't read this as a bedtime story. Well yes I did, but I read it aloud for my cousin. 

Nicke är en härlig nyfiken liten filur som tar allt med en nypa salt. Han är en karaktär i sig som får en att verkligen skratta, och som även får små barn att skratta. Den här bilderboken tyckte jag var väldigt fint illustrerad, fina bilder och behaglig text som var väldigt lätt att förstå. Nicole tyckte jätte mycket om boken, som ett stort Nicke Nyfiken fan är väl det lätt att förstå haha...

Dock tror jag att det hade varit lite roligare om boken gav utrymme för lite diskussioner, nu kunde jag känna att boken inte var så jätte lärorik, en rolig var den i alla fall!

Jag ger denna bok 3/5 jag tycker definitivt att detta är en bok att läsa tillsammans med sitt barn/syskon/småbarn in general! 

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By Margret H.A. Rey

Pages: 32

Publisher: HMH Books

Nick is a very curious little monkey. Now he has found different houses, each one more amazing than the others: a house, a castle, a caravan, a lighthouse ...

"What's in there? That we wonder so. We follow with George now knocking on!"

Inside the houses, there are many fine things that are hard to find. Can you help him to look? And can you see where he is hiding somewhere? Come and join Curious George exploring in this search-and-find book of verse!

Before you ask, no I didn't read this as a bedtime story. Well yes I did, but I read it aloud for my cousin. 

George is a lovely curious little fellow who takes everything with a grain of salt. He is a character in itself that makes you really laugh, and even get little kids to laugh. This picture book I thought was very nicely illustrated, nice pictures and agreeable text that was very easy to understand. Nicole liked this story very much, which as a huge Curious George fan I can understand haha...

However, I think it would have been more fun if the book gave room for some discussion, now, I could feel that the book was not so very educational, but at least it was fun!

I give this book 3/5 I definitely think this is a book to read with your child / sibling / toddlers in general!

xoxo Lihini

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter #1) REVIEW

The day you have all been waiting for is finally here. I've been bullied to no ends by my friends because of this. I've been laughed at and people have said " and you call yourself a book-blogger? HAHAHAHA"

All because I hadn't read Harry Potter.
All because of THAT Potter.
Well cry no more readers because I finished HP yesterday and here is my review.

By J.K. Rowling
Pages: 310
Publisher: Scholastic Press

Harry Potter has never played a sport while flying on a broomstick. He's never worn a Cloak of Invisibility, befriended a giant, or helped hatch a dragon. All Harry knows is a miserable life with the Dursleys, his horrible aunt and uncle, and their abominable son, Dudley. Harry's room is a tiny cupboard under the stairs, and he hasn't had a birthday party in ten years.

But all that is about to change when a mysterious letter arrives by owl messenger: a letter with an invitation to a wonderful place he never dreamed existed. There he finds not only friends, aerial sports, and magic around every corner, but a great destiny that's been waiting for him... if Harry can survive the encounter.

3/5

I don't really know what to say about this book, what is there left to say really? 
I knew reading this book would be much like Percy Jackson but in it's own way, I knew I wouldn't hate the book and I did not, I enjoyed it quite a lot actually. There was so much adventure, and I was amazed by the friendship the kids at Hogwarts had, and how loyal they were to their friends. 
My favorite character's much be Hermione and Neville. They were both loyal to their friends and they were both very brave characters in their own way. 
I am truly sad over the fact that I didn't read this book sooner, and by sooner I mean around the age of 13 because the book was more or less EXACTLY like the movie, and I think I would have liked it in a different way If I read it at a younger age.

I will definitely be reading the other books in the series, because I've that they are supposed to be better.

 ~stay smart, stay chic
xoxo Lihini

The Hobbit / Hobbiten REVIEW +

English Review
By J.R.R. Tolkien

Paperback, 351 pages

Published August 15th 2002 by Houghton Mifflin 

This book was recommended to me by a boy with nice hair that you just wan't to braid, and because he had nice hair I decided to give this book a try.

I have this rule which i know a lot of other people have too "read at least 100 pages before putting it down"

I did and I just could not finish the book, so because of that this review will be short. 
The thing with this book is that It was good. I loved the language, words were used in a marvelous way, great main character that seemed very nice and humble.

everything was there for me to like, I shuld have liked the story but I just... didn't.
I don't know if it was because so much happent so fast I felt like I couldn't cope, or if it was because I just could not see the point of finishing this book. during the time I read this book I found myself looking longingly at my bookshelf, just wanting to read something else but this book.

However, I must point out that I think this is a fantastic children's book and I wish I had read it a few years before, or had someone read it to me as a bedtime story or something, I think I would have appreciated the giants, trolls and dwarves more then.

Bilbo Baggins, a simple Hobbit, never asked for adventure. It literally came knocking on his door -- 13 dwarves (Tolkien's spelling with the "v") and Gandalf the wizard show up to tea to hire Bilbo as a thief in their quest to reclaim a hoard of treasure. It's stashed far away and guarded by a fierce dragon, Smaug. Bilbo will have to cross the Misty Mountains -- troll and goblin country -- and the untamed wilds of Mirkwood, where straying from the path can be deadly. In exchange, he gets an even share of the treasure and quite a story to tell. But is one little hobbit really up for such a big adventure?

Swedish Review

Av J.R.R. Tolkien

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• Originaltitel: The Hobbit

Författare: 

J. R. R. Tolkien

• Översättare: 

  Erik Andersson

• Översättare: 

  John Swedenmark

• Förlag: 

  Norstedts

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Den lille hobbiten Bilbo Secker dras av trollkarlen Gandalf grå med på äventyr tillsammans med tretton dvärgar, ledda av den sturske Thorin Ekensköld. De ska röva bort en stor guldskatt som vaktas av den eldsprutande draken Smaug.

På vägen stöter de på ruskiga troll och vättar, men också hjälpsamma varelser som alver, jätteörnar och den store Beorn. Bilbo träffar också den slemmige Gollum som håller till i en mörk grotta uppe i bergen. Gollum utmanar Bilbo på en tävling och blir där av med sin magiska osynlighetsring. En ring som kommer att spela en viktig roll i berättelsen.


Denna bok rekommenderades till mig av en pojke med fint hår som du bara vill fläta, och eftersom han hade fint hår beslutade jag att ge denna bok ett försök.
 
Jag har denna regel, som jag vet att många andra människor också har "läst minst 100 sidor innan du lägger ner den"

Jag läste 100 sidor och jag bara kunde inte avsluta boken, så på grund av att detta kommer denna översyn att vara kort.
Grejen med denna bok är att Den var bra. Jag älskade språket, var ord användes på ett förunderligt sätt, fantastisk huvudperson som verkade mycket trevlig och ödmjuk.

Det här var en sådan historia jag borde ha gillat men jag bara... gjorde inte det.
Jag vet inte om det berodde på att så mycket hände så fort jag kände att jag inte kunde klarde av det, kändes lite som en soppa på en soppa, eller om det var för att jag bara inte kunde se poängen med att avsluta denna bok. under tiden jag läste denna bok jag fann mig själv tittar längtansfullt på min bokhylla; ville bara läsa något annat som inte var denna bok.

Jag måste dock påpeka att jag tycker att detta är en fantastisk barnbok och jag önskar att jag hade läst den några år innan, eller haft någon läsa den åt mig som en godnatt saga eller något, jag tror jag skulle ha uppskattat jätterna o trollen och dvärgarna mer då.

~stay smart, stay chic
xoxo Lihini