People are always complaining because they've got no books to read at
that moment. I had it a while ago, when I was reading Stephen King's
On Writing, but really, I'm ten, he was talking about how he had
problems with things I won't mention or Net Nanny, Freeshield or other
parental controls you might have on your computer won't let you onto the
site. So when he was describing how he was gone absolutely mad
about d r u gs and a l c h o h o l (a trick I'm using so parental
controls won't block the site), I just abandoned the book. Then came my
birthday and I got Triskellion. And then it started.
Triskellion. 2nd May. Dear Olly. 6th May. After that I lost
track of dates. I never get the date right. Queste. And then the
book fair came to school. I bought the first book I saw in the two-euro
box. Framed. Apparently, according to The Times and them,
I'll laugh my head off. Brian was helping out at the book fair and he
reserved a book I had been wanting for a while for me. Darkside
by Tom Becker. As if that wasn't enough, since I'm still on
Triskellion and I'm half-way through Dear Olly and haven't
touched Queste or any books after that mentioned above yet, I'll
have lots of reading to do. I don't thin I've read all of Tommy Storm
by AJ Healy yet... anyway, that evening, after school, where do you
think I went?
To the library. I borrowed the first of the Vampirates series.
Anthony Horrowitz says it's a great book, and Anthony's books are
brilliant (Alex Rider and tons more). Then I also borrowed The Oxford
Book of Supernatural Stories or something like that. And End Game.
Then I renewed one of the Illmoor Chronicles and The
Alchemist.
I think I'm going to read The Van. Lots of bad language, I'm
told, but maybe. when I get through this big heap of books.
You know, this list is so long, it might even get me through to august,
when I'll be buying the prequel JK Rowling wrote for Harry Potter for
charity. And MuggleNet didn't put it under their list of 'big
News'!!!!!!
and another thing - Scholastic book Fair comes to the school and brings
no Harry Potter. you heard me right, none at all! People walk into the
book fair and buy posters, flashy pencils, organizers, art sets -
everything but books. Ah, well. I'm off to read. but before that,
here's a wanted sign I made.
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My 'This is the place where I post blog entry sort of things about kids books for kids' #7:
Prince Caspian Movie Review
I am
getting soooo lazy with the site. For one thing, I'm still
putting up booKCast episodes that are two weeks behind schedule, this is
the second week in a row that I haven't sent out an email (next week I'm
going to say it's because of the 4th of July). So, because of my past
laziness, I did all the news today and there won't be as much next week
cuz PW Bookshelf's Children's Bookshelf for 4th of July. I have 12
unread RSS Feeds to do with news and the archive is sooo hard to
work. I've really got to learn how to embed a blog that updates the
archive and that automatically. I've given up my attempt at writing
whole articles for news stories and I haven't written an editorial since
the section went up. On the bright side, I went to see Prince Caspian in
a cinema in Wexford (I think I'll go see Kung-Fu Panda sometime soon
aswell. Well, how was Prince Caspian? Great. It was brilliant. The
casting, for one thing. I was a bit worried they wouldn't get back the
same cast, but, of course, they did. Ben Barnes was fantastic. Comparing
it to the book? I haven't read the book for about two years now, so I'm
not sure, but I read the first chapter or two today, and, of course, I
do prefer books to movies, but this movie was almost as good as the
books.
If there was a bit I didn't like, it was how Susan fancied Caspian, and
if there's one thing I don't like about the Narnia books: how they grow
old and can't go back to Narnia. this also happens for the actors, and
they must hate it. But Peter's actor, William Mosley, spoke to the Life
(I'm looking at it right here in front of me) 'Well, it's another
chapter in my life, but in one way that's good.'
BestBooks4ever's rating for The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian is 9/10.
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My 'This is the place where I post blog entry sort of things about kids books for kids' #5:
idunno
I really don't know what this blog entry is meant to be about - I
haven't updated in so long, so there's so much to write about. OK,
first, Harry Potter news. So... Warner Bros. just about confirmed that
the set of pics of the Half Blood Prince movie were real by releasing
them again with the Warner Bros. sign on them. were real. Sorry, WB, but
you made it really obvious. If you hadn't posted these pictures
yourself, you would have gone off to the fan sites and got them to take
it down. They didn't take 'em down cuz they didn't get emails.
So, what's next. Ah, yes. JK Rowling helped raise £320,436 for multiple
sclerosis (MS). Isn't Jo awful good when it comes to charities. Moving
on, A representative for Emma Thompson told... was it
SnitchSeeker
that Trelawney isn't going to be in the Half Blood Prince movie. She
doesn't have a massive role in the book, but she appears twice.
Informing Harry of Draco's presence in the Room of Requirement and again
Snape having overheard the prophecy. Next article is... Oh, yeh. I
thought this was cool. Dan Radcliffe and Richard Griffiths will be
presenting at the 2008 Tony Awards. Usually, people would say that this
would be 'A great experience for a young boy', but nobody realises that
he's 18 now and he has lots of experience. Obviously they're promoting
Equus, not Harry Potter or else they'd probably have the trio, or
Michael Gambon or Maggie Smith or Alan Rickman or Ralf Fiennes. Now. Oh,
yeh. Dan Radcliffe and other Harry Potter actors are going to be
attending the Robert Knox's funeral. I think it's terrible what happened
to Robert Know and I'd like to use this time to direct you to
HPAZ's
thing where you sign your name in a kind of guestbook and everything ill
go to Robert's family. There was more. A big huge thing about a Warner
Bros. huge interactive online Potter game. This would be fun and I'll
tell ye all a funny story about what Oisín Number 2 did on one of them.
JK Rowling filed another lawsuit. And to be honest, I hate Starmap. I'm
not only saying that cuz JK Rowling said so. I hate Starmap. Happy
Birthday, Jason Isaacs! All you guys using the UK can see OOTP! Oh, here
we go. Harvard. I was watching this live and the speech was just
brilliant. In the past few days, I've learned lots about JK Rowling. I'm
reading JK Rowling: Princess of Magic. It's her biography,
just not by her. It was hilarious at some points and some points were
really serious. But that quote she said, that's my new motto.
'As
is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what
matters.'
I finished Triskellion recently. And if anybody's wondering,
I finished Cool a long time ago. OMG with a capital O, M
and G (those of you who don't txt much, OMG is Oh my God.) It's just as
good as Harry Potter. Seriously. And Darren Shan and - it's amazing.
Well. See ya next time.
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My 'This is the place where I post blog entry sort of things about kids books for kids' #8:
Er... Not sure...
I
picked up the leaflet for the Dunbrody Festival the day before
yesterday. And it looks very good. Mundy and Sharron Shannon live for
free in the park and The Fureys and Davey Arthur live in the park for
free the day before. Of course, if it's Mundy and Sharron Shannon then
most likely Sharron Shannon is the main act and Mundy will only be doing
Galway Girl with Sharron Shannon and maybe July by himself. That's his
best music anyway. There's some kind of tournament up at New Ross Rugby
Club. There'll be mo0re on the night, but that'll probably be all I'm
going to. The Dunbrody Festival is next weekend or the weekend
afterwards in New Ross (a festival held every year). Speaking of
festivals, the Midlands Music Festival isn't on this year (I went last
year. Lots of people were there, including Mundy, who's coming to The
Dunbrody Festival this year.
So, the reason I didn't put this up yesterday was because I was a a
christening. I was doing a reading, which was great. (-: Also, Doctor
Who tonight! OMG!
Well, that's just about it. Brian recorded an episode of booKCast with
me on Thursday, so we've got a new host. Yay.
See ya.
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My 'This is the place where I post blog entry sort of things about kids books for kids' #6:
Top Trumps
I was
at my friends house the other day and we were looking through a book of
Top Trumps about cars. Going through them like 'Oh, that is some nice
car' and stuff. Top Trumps have been out for a very long time. I've got
Top trumps for Roald Dahl, Harry Potter, Narnia, The Golden Compass and
more. But then they made the Top Trumps books. That's only about the
things,, so you can't play the games with them. You can only read about
them. I've got Doctor Who and some cars in them, and they're not that
good. What is good about them, however, is how if you have Excel, you're
able to make your own one. This is a really short entry, because I'm
doing stuff for downloads that I've been keeping all quiet at the
moment. Only Oisín and Luke knew about it and they only knew that I was
doing it, they hardly knew anything. I've got it on my PC, but I'm
having trouble putting up the download. (I appreciate it if you were
going to end me an email telling me how, but it's fine, I've already
almost got it.) I'm working on a downloads section and some sections
that I've been promising for a while, including competitions and
editorials. Today I've started news archives, so that I won't end up
with the page taking a couple of days to load with all the text on it.
So. Sorry for the delay on booKCast last week. I made an episode
yesterday night and then realised it was full of background noise
because Oisín was watching Euro 08 on the TV.
Anyway, see ya.
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My 'This is the place where I post blog entry sort of things about kids books for kids' #9:
Sunday Tribune & booKCast
The big
OMG story started three or four days ago when I first got in touch with
Olivia Doyle, editor of the Tribune Review (I think.) I wrote a review
of The Spook's Mistake for the Tribune Review and it was just by
coincidence that she was going to be doing a big this with children's
fiction on Sunday. So they were going to put in my review.
I gave her a phone number, address and the picture that appears on the
site because she needed them for the paper. So then this morning I got a
phone call from a woman named Sarah (I think.)
So I did a fifteen minute over-phone interview with her and talked about
books, websites, computers and more and then I went off to camp (I'm
doing theatre camp at Barnstorm this week and it's great.)
When I came home from summer camp, Mam said 'Alright, Ciarán, there's
photographer coming in about an hour or so.'
His name was Mark and he's really nice. He did pictures of me reading
and pictures of me at the computer and it was great so I'm probably
going to be in the paper this Sunday. It's the Sunday Tribune. Go buy
it!
&
booKCast. I got an email from iTunes two days ago saying 'your podcast
should be up in the next couple of hours'. It's still not up. I'm
staying optimistic. Yay1 It's up! But not in the search. Go to
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Podcast?id=284937086
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My 'This is the place where I post blog entry sort of things about kids books for kids' #10:
Mercier Tribune & booKCast
I haven't updated for a long
time. As you can see, the site got a massive makeover. (That's what i
call it when i make big change on the site - it's just a phrase
webmasters use.) Anyway, The Sunday Tribune came out on Sunday
(obviously, what did you think, Friday?) and we got thirteen views that
day. (Woo! Keep 'em coming!) In fact, thirteen views, nine of which were
over half an hour long, eight of the thirteen had never been to this
site before, and one person even came back twice that one day. (Stay
around, this isn't all about our popularity, views and stuff). While
we're talking about the audience of the site, 89.68% are from
Ireland, 7.10% are from the UK, 1.94% from the US, 0.65% are from Norway
and 0.65 have put a setting on their computer so that I can't find out.
WHAT?! Yes! Dublin won! Sorry, I'm from Dublin, but I've lived in
Kilkenny for the past five years. Now, where was I? Let's see... I'll
give you a weird fact about the site. 22 people exited out of the
site while on the previous entries page.
We got a record (atleast I think it's a record) 63 hits this month. One
of these was Olivia Doyle who set up the whole thing with the Tribune
(thanks again). Another person was Patrick Crowley or Mercier Press, an
Irish publishers. He contacted me asking me could he send me a few books
to review. Of course I said yes, because I like reading an reviewing, so
I said yes and he sent me four books in the 8-12 age range. He sent me
Penny the Athlete, a biography of Michael Collins, a biography in
the same series of Daniel O'Connell and a book named Tír na nÓg: A
New Adventure.
I've done the review for the Michael Collins book, which will be put on
the site publicly tomorrow, and I'll either email it to Patrick today or
tomorrow and I'm reading the Tír na nÓg one now.
Anything else to talk about? Of course. The big makeover! It took a
while, which is why I didn't make an update for such a long time, so
here it is (-: The BestBooks4ever toolbar is coming soon, I just
need to try and get a little booKCast player onto it.
The Chordie.com
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was moved - I better go tell them that or they might take down the
BestBooks4ever one.
This entry is getting too long, and there's a little chance that I'll be
going back to the Dunbrody Festival tonight, so see ya next time for a
review of The festival
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Yesterday
Indiana Jones and the Lost Crystal Skull came out and today I went
to see it. Twelve's, but I can pass for twelve cuz I'm ten. Some of the
actors and actresses you might know? Well, what would an Indiana Jones
movie be without Harrison Ford, who, as we all know, plays Indiana.
(Junior. He's named after the dog.) Happy to say, we had two Harry
Potter actors (a decent movie always has one.) Jim Broadbent we haven't
seen in HP yet. He's going to play Slughorn in Movie 6 (see the brand
new countdown at the top of the page). (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) Then we had
John Hurt. Jim and John (JJ) have both had good rolls in different
movies over the years. John Hurt, when he was
promoting this movie in the US and was doing one of the various
interviews, talked about his roll as Ollivander in Harry Potter. He said
there's a possibility he'll return. Man, I hope so.
Well, back to the point. Was it good? It was absolutely brilliant. We
didn't see the father back, and in Last Crusade the father made
it very funny. But it was brilliant. Mutt was hilarious. I've never seen
that actor before. And you'll never guess who they brought back. You'll
never guess who the mother who recommended Indiana to Mutt was.
WOW
Well fair play to Harrison Ford. He's in his 70's now and he still
managed to hide in a fridge in the middle of an atomic bomb. Well, the
only bad thing was that they could have got a bit of help from the
Doctor Who special effects team. But it was brilliant. when they got
covered by the ants, I felt like screaming. The lesson? Six-year-old
sisters shouldn't go to twelve's movies.
I can see that everybody else agreed that it was brilliant. After the
wedding scene where Harrison Ford (Indiana, or Jonesy as Mr. traitor
says) grabs the hat off Mutt ('what kind of a name is that?' 'It's the
one I chose, you gotta problem with that?' 'Don't get angry all the time
just o show how tough you are.' A scene) after he grabbed the hat off
Mutt and the credits began to roll up, everyone was clapping and
cheering.
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Illustrators have a massive part in books, and you can celebrate this...
Especially you guys from around here! It's National Drawing Day on Saturday and there are events all around the country (Ireland) so check if your nearest park, café, or anywhere is holding an event. Kilkenny Castle Park is holding an event, and you guys should all go. Unless you're not living here, then you're just being downright stupid. Unless you're here anyway, then I'm guessing you're fairly clever. No, seriously, it's not gonna be a waste of time. You can meet other people who share your same passion of drawing, painting or colouring. You're sure to enjoy this event if you like to do something like the Mona Lisa or if you just enjoy to draw rude pictures of people, you should go to one of these events. Because illustrations are big parts in books. Let's have a look at the most popular illustrators:
Quentin Blake
Illustrated all the Roald Dahl but one and is best known for this. He also
illustrated lots of his own books
Tony Ross
Is best
known for illustrating all the Horrid Henry books but he also notably writes
his own picture books and Eoin Colfer's The
Legend Of... books.
PS: Man U won. Ronaldo was too busy showing off the score that penalty.
PPS: Next Saturday is also the Eurovision finals, which won't include Dustin )-: It's the Heineken Cup final (go on Munster!!!!) and I think there's a soccer match. I've got music exams.
PPPS: I made
up a new (-: It's Marge Simpson.
(-:)))))))))))))))))))))) Oh. Here's a lip trembling for Dustin not
getting through:
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I'll start off by asking you guys who was watching what is like round 1 of the Eurovision. Well? I liked Estonia - did they get through? but let's focus on our won countries. You can skip down the page and read about the Scholastic 10th anniversary new Potter cover if you want because this is based at people from Ireland. Did you see Dustin? Well? We had no lyrics to do with books, it's absolutely terrible if you're trying to hear the lyrics and they were booing him when he came on, but other than that, IRELAND WERE BRILLIANT! No? Well I didn't particularly enjoy Israel, unlike Marty Whelan. The gal sitting on the couch was good and the one with the washing was good... but nothing can beat Ukraine last year. I honestly thought Dustin would win. Ah, well, we can always send off Richie Kavanagh or Hector... maybe Eddie Hobbs or Ardal O'Hanlon. Marian Rosenstock. I could imagine him... Ah, well, as I said. We got the first non-human, and maybe next time we should send Fungi. Why don't we send U2 or Westlife? People say it's because they're professional bands, but Brian Kennedy went. Well, moving on to a bitta Doctor Who.
So this is gigantic news in Doctor Who. After mums slapping the Doctor, more Daleks, Cybermen, the Face of Boe dying and lots more, Russell T Davies is leaving as head writer and producer of Doctor Who. It's Steven Moffet, writer of lots of the best episodes, including the Fireplace one, the Are you my Mummy? one and the one coming up, Silence in the Library.
And Scholastic are publishing a book which is Philosopher Stone's 10'th US birthday. Or should I say Sorcerer Stone... I don't like that name. Well there are new cover illustrations (illustrations... see the next entry, maybe tomorrow... Friday... maybe...) and the front illustration is Harry looking into the mirror of the Erised and the back one is Hagrid entering Hogwarts via boat.
Well, that ends my entry, and watch out for another one (where I talk about pictures) soon. It's mostly for Irish people, but I talk about different stuff aswell, so be sure to watch out for it. (-;
PS: I don't know who I'm up for in the final cuz I'm a Liverpool fan but it's at 37 into the game at the moment and Chelsea are playing very poorly. I'm a Liverpool fan.
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