E.B. White

Hello everyone. In this post I want to talk about a great author whose name is Elwyn Brooks White (E.B. White). I want to talk about this author because I knew him a few weeks ago and I liked a lot his books.

Elwyn Brooks White was bornt in Mount Vernont, New York, in 1899. He was a publicist and in 1925 he published his first article in "The New Yorker" magazine.

He wrote some important books such as "The elements of style" or "The Supremacy of Uruguay". But he became really famous because of three science fiction books for children.






The first book for children was "Stuart Little". I am sure that all of you know this book, maybe bacause you have read the book or maybe because you have seen the film. 
Stuart Litlle talks about a mouse that is adopted by a family of humans, the Little family. The parents of the family are very happy with their new son but, the oldest son, George, doesn´t know what can he does with his new brother. The cat of the family, Snowbell, is going to invent a plan to eliminate Stuart from the family.

I think that with this book children can learn a lot of things, for example, they can learn that it does not matter the aspect of a person and friendship is very important.



The second book for children that E.B. White wrote was "Charlotte´s Web". This book tells the story of a pig, called Wilbur that is in danger of being slaughtered by a farmer. The pig has a friend, a Spider whose name is Charlotte. The spider will help the pig writing messages in her web to persuade the farmer and Wilbur could live. 

With this book children can learn that it is important to help others and to be worried about the people around you.




The last book I want to show you is "The Trumpet of the Swan". This book tell the story of a swan that has a problem, he can´t talk. He is a very clever and handsome swan and he wants to impress a girl but she ignore them because of his problem. His father decides to give him a trompet and with this instrument he will do fascinating things.

This book is really good for children to see that they can do a lot of things if they put a lot of effort on it.




As you can see, all of these books talk about animals that, in my opinion, is a topic that engages a lot to children.
Finally, I want to highlight the importance of these books saying that all of them have been adapted to the cinema.

Important books in my life

Last week, we have done an activity, called "reading map", in which we have to show in a drawing the books that we have read during all our lives. For example, I decided to do a kind of underground map in which each station was a book. In this map there was four different lines, the green line, in which there were there were books that I read in infant education; the brown line, for primary education; the blue one, for secondary and bachelor; and finally the red one for the university.

This activity have helped me to remember some books that I have read and I enjoyed them a lot. With this post I want you to know whichs ones were my favorite ones and why, and also, I want to recommend you some of these books.

The first book, is probably the book that I have enjoyed the most, because it was a book that, for me, was different than the other that I had read. It was different because it has adventure, emotion and even a little bit of fear. I am talking about "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets". Before that book I read the first part of the saga "Harry Potter and the Philosopher Stone", and they are really different from my point of view and thats what I liked of this book. 

The second book that I remember is "Narnia Chronicles: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe". This book tells the story of four orphans brothers that suddenly go into a parallel word called Narnia. In this word, always is winter because a witch domains it. The mision of these four brothers is to create an army with the help of a Lion, Aslan, to beat the witch and let the spring comes back to Narnia. This book is really fascinating and I´m sure that you will enjoy reading it. I recommend you.



The last book that I want to tell you I have read it recently, one or two months ago. The book is called "Inferno" and the writer is Dan Brown (maybe you know him because he has wroten books like "Da Vinci´s Code" or "Angels and Demons"). The main character of this novel is Robert Langdom, a proffesor of symbology and iconology in a university in the United States. The book begins when Robert wakes up in a hospital and doesn´t remember why is he there. He will have to discover what have happened and why some people are following him. But he is not alone, she will met Shiena Brooks, a doctor who works in the hospital where the story start. During the story he will discover that they had to avoid a global catastrophe and they don´t have a lot of time. And I don´t want to tell you more about this story, you have to read it if you want to discover what happens.

These are probable the three books that I choose among all the books that I have read during all my life and they have been important for me because, they have achieved that I read a little bit more. In fact, nowaday I am reading a very big book called "The fall of the Giants" and I am enjoying it a lot.