Hola mis queridos amigos, hoy vamos a mirar a los libros, a los libros para niños y sus autores porque leer es mágico, fantástico. Sin embargo, los niños y adolescentes leen cada vez menos hoy en día y es una pena porque ¡TODO ESTÁ EN LOS LIBROS!
Info: from Speak Up magazine.
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BELOVED CHARACTERS / CHILDREN'S AUTHORS
What do a teacher, a journalist, an artist, a pilot and a mathematics professor have in common? They all became famous British children's writers.
THE FAMOUS FIVE
The teacher was Enid Blyton and she started writing in her free time. Her stories were often about a group of children, and a dog, who visit a different part of the country in each book and have an adventure or solve a mystery. The Famous Five, and The Secret Seven. She wrote at least six thousand words a day and published over six hundred books in her life.
WINNIE THE POOH
The journalist A.A. Milne became famous for writing just two books, the first called Winnie-the-Pooh. There was only one child in his stories, who was actually based on his son, Cristopher Robin, before he went to school. The other "people" were either animals or toys.
PETER RABBIT
Artist Beatrix Potter wrote her books about the animals she saw near her country home and also drew all the pictures for the stories. She gave the animals names, and with the first book, The Tale of Peter Rabbit, she had the idea of selling a doll and a game too. Earlier this year, they released a computer-animated comedy film based on these well-loved stories!
THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY
Roal Dahl wrote about his adventures as a pilot, but his most popular stories happen to a boy or girl who meets horrible children and adults, or strange animals. Dahl often gave his characters funny names, like Augustus Gloop or Willy Wonka in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Bunce and Bean in Fantastic Mr. Fox or Miss Trunchbull in Matilda.
ALICE IN WONDERLAND
But the maths professor wrote the strangest stories of all. Lewis Caroll's two books are about a girl called Alice who meets unusual animals and people in a dream world. Adults enjoy the books as much as children, perhaps because Carroll loved to play with the meanings of words. An original copy of the first book sold for $1.5 million a century after it was first published.
VOCABULARY
-JOURNALIST: periodista.
-SOLVE A MYSTERY: resolver un misterio.
-AT LEAST: al menos.
-TALE: cuento.
-WELL-LOVED: muy querido.
-DREAM WORLD: mundo de ensueño.
-ENJOY: disfrutar.
