Category Archives: children

the little prince — antoine de saint-exupèry

2 stars

Orig­i­nally it’s a children’s book, but it is also read­able for adults.

The I in the story is stranded with his plane in an African dessert, where he meets the lit­tle prince. This lit­tle guy has been hop­ping from planet to planet and from star to star to get the answers to his ques­tions. Every per­son on each planet/star sym­bol­izes an aspect of the adult world, the cul­ture and soci­ety we live in. There is for exam­ple the king who wants to rule every­thing, the busi­ness­man who counts the stars and wants to own them to gain from them. This are only two exam­ples of the seven peo­ple he meets, but they all are part of the world we as grown humans live in. The lit­tle prince and with him the chil­dren who read this book have to learn how this world works. For the adults who read this story it’s time to reflect and ponder.

this is a pre­view of the lit­tle prince — antoine de saint-exupèry. read the full post (163 words & 1 image, esti­mated 39 secs read­ing time)
April 2, 2007 – 08:25 | By eb | Posted in children | Tagged , | Comments (0)

harry potter and the order of the phoenix — j.k. rowling

3 stars

This is the fifth book in the famous and by now clas­sic story of Harry Pot­ter the teenage wiz­ard. “He-who-must-not-be-named” is back now for only a lit­tle while and the world already isn’t the same any­more. Peo­ple fight a lot, Hog­warts is taken over by the Min­istry of Magic (which is not a good thing), Harry Pot­ter is being por­trayed as a liar and last but not least “the order of the Phoenix” is being formed again after almost 16 years. So much for a quiet year.

this is a pre­view of harry pot­ter and the order of the phoenix — j.k. rowl­ing. read the full post (178 words & 1 image, esti­mated 43 secs read­ing time)
March 29, 2007 – 17:27 | By eb | Posted in children, fantasy, into movies | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

i capture the castle — dodie smith

3 stars

A nice lit­tle story told in jour­nal form. Cas­san­dra is the one who is telling the story about her life and love(s).

She lives in a cas­tle where also live: her strange father, step­mother Topaz, sis­ter Rose, brother Thomas and help Stephen. When the fam­ily of which they rent the cas­tle, comes to Eng­land (from the USA) the story really sets of. Two young men, Simon and Neil, belong to that fam­ily and steal the harts of Rose and Cas­san­dra with whom Stephen is hope­lessly in love.

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March 29, 2007 – 16:23 | By eb | Posted in children, into movies, romance | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)