Eventhough, we still do

You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can't, but also knowing that literature is indispensable to the world... The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way...

People look at reality, then you can change it.

- James Baldwin

domingo, 30 de octubre de 2011

Informativos de mi blog LXII

¡Hola chic@s! ¡Qué semana! Nos os podéis quejar, que he escrito mucho.
Os he escrito sobre la poesía de Becker en inglés, suerte que encontré el papel con el número que era y la encontré traducida al inglés, ¡era muy complicada para mí! Mi abuela me decía que eso estaba preparado para el español, no el inglés pero...
En fin, también os he hablado sobre dos libros en inglés, "TUNNELS" sobre un niño que vive en Londres con su familia y al que le gusta escavar. Un día su padre desaparece y junto con un amigo, al ir a buscarlo, encuentran un mundo subterráneo. Espero que os gustara.
El segundo libro del que os he hablado es "The invention of Hugo Cabret", que trata sobre un chico que vive en París en 1937 y que encuentra, junto con su padre, un androide, que se supone que tiene que escribir algo con el bolígrafo que tiene en la mano. De repente, la vida de Hugo se convierte en una enredadera, ¿qué le sucederá? Descubrirlo vosotros mismos.
A continuación os he escrito sobre el cambio de hora en "Noticias para niños" o "Kids news", ¡horario de invierno!
Por último os he escrito sobre la película "Super 8" que he visto hoy en casa, ¡que miedo en algunas escenas! Pero me ha gustado mucho, de verdad.

Eso es todo por esta semana, ¡un abrazo muy grande!

Miriam

A good film: Super 8

Hello guys! This afternoon I watched "Super 8", a great film on a group of friends that want to film a film. The day they are practicing it in a train station at midnight a train appears and an accident takes place. A car crushes with the train and everything explodes. This group of friends and their camera are the only persons that see it. They scape but on the next days an estrange creature appears and people start disappearing from the town, the same as all the dogs.
What's happening? Does it have something to do with the accident that Joe and his friends saw? Watch the film and discover it!
I think it was for boys older than seven. It gets scary at some moments but... I liked it the same.

Hoping you find it interesting,

Miriam

Kids news: Hour change!

Hello guys! How is it going? Today the hour has changed! I'm so happy about it, I love winter hours. At six it seems to you that you have to be having dinner or in home because of the dark it is, :) incredible! It's like a new dimension to me, a new world!
A conversation with my mum this morning when I have woke up it's been:
-Hey, are you up so early?
 And me:
-What time is it?
-Ten in the morning.
-And have they changed the hour?
-Yep.
-So it's not so early!
The conversation went farther but that's the important part of it.
So guys, have fun and enjoy the new hour and the new dimension!

Miriam

Noticias para niños: ¡Cambio de hora!

¡Hola chic@s! Hoy han cambiado la hora, ¡entramos en el horario de invierno! Que bien, a mí me encanta. Saber que es pronto pero parecer que ya tienes que estar en la cama, :) ¡increíble! Parece una nueva dimensión, viéndolo a las seis de la tarde cuando ya está casi oscuro y la gente comprando por la calle... ¡nuevo mundo!
El caso es que me levanto a las once de la mañana de ayer (las diez de la mañana hoy) y me dice mi madre:
-Qué pronto te levantas, ¿no?
Y yo:
-¿Pero que hora es?
-Las diez.
-¿Han cambiado la hora?
-Sí.
-¡Pues entonces no es tan pronto!
En fin, la conversación ha seguido pero esa era la parte que quería resaltar.
Así que nada chic@s, ¡ha disfrutar del nuevo horario y de una nueva dimensión!

Miriam

sábado, 29 de octubre de 2011

English books: The invention of HUGO CABRET

Hello again! I have one more book to tell you about. It's called "The invention of HUGO CABRET" by Brian Selznick.
This book talks about Hugo Cabret, a boy that lives in a train station in Paris in the year 1931. Hugo became orphan when his father died in a fire in the museum he was working. He went to live with his uncle to the train station were he learned how to repair the clocks and those.
Suddenly, his uncle disappears. Hugo doesn't want to go to and Orphanage so he continues repairing the clocks and stealing food for eating.
He feels sad and lonely. He misses his father a lot and the android that he was repairing. This android had a pencil on his hand and it was like to write something but it was broken. Hugo's father wanted to know what it would write and so he tried to make it work. When he died, the android was with him, at the museum.
One night, Hugo finds the android in the rests of the burned structure.
With a notebook that his father left him with drawings about how to repair it he tries so.
But one day, trying to steal a toy for using it's mechanical pieces, the owner catches him and takes his book. It seems to Hugo that this men knows something about the android... what would happen?
I leave it for you to discover it, I don't want to ruin the story!
I want to tell you that this book is a treasure. It has amazing paintings that tell the story instead of words some times. If you buy it I'm sure that you'll find it as wonderful as I do.
I also found a great page on it, I leave it here for you:
There's a trailer on the film they've made about this book, I also leave it here:
I leave you it's information:
Title: The invention of HUGO CABRET
Printer: SCHOLASTIC
Author: Brian Selznick
Cover design: Brian Selznick
Collection design: SCHOLASTIC
Parts of the book: 2
Pages of the story: 284

I found it... wow. Read it and you'll know!

Miriam

English books: TUNNELS

Hi, guys! One of the last two books I read is called "TUNNELS". I didn't write you about it because I didn't have time... sorry! But don't worry, I didn't finish it long ago.
This book is about Will Burrows, a boy of fourteen that lives with his family in London.
His family's a special one. His father works in a museum and he loves digging, as Will. This is their only common bond.
Will's mother spends the day in front of the television, and Rebecca, his sister of twelve, organizes the house, food...
Will doesn't have any friends, apart from Chester, a new person he has 
discovered in his school and the one will help him on his strange mission.
Will's father is on an estrange project and he hasn't tell Will about it.
He disappears for a while at nights, he returns out of time from work...
Finally, he doesn't return home.
Will is worried and with Chester's help he starts looking for something related with his father. In the end, they discover a tunnel, that goes underground through the whole London.
What will happen to them? Will they rescue Will's father? Will they ever turn back home?
Lots of questions, lots of answers in the book. Just read it!

I leave you it's information for you to find it:
Title: TUNNELS
Printer: SCHOLASTIC
Authors: Roderick Gordon and Brian Williams
Cover design: Brian Williams
Collection design: Chicken House and SCHOLASTIC
Parts of the book: 3 (but there are four books more, I think)
Pages of the story: 472

I wish you enjoy it!

Miriam

Some more little matters...: A wonderful poem from Gustavo Asolfo Becker

Guys! Here, I leave you a great poem from Gustavo Adolfo Becker, for you to enjoy it. I read it for the first time at my Gran's and... I really liked it. I also used it for my book, the one I'm writing.
I found it translated in the Internet. At first I tried it myself and I could do it but not in the way it turns out to be so beautiful. I leave it here for you:
Do not say that, exhausted of its treasure, there is
lack of subject matter to silence poetry;
we may not have poets; but there will always be
poetry.
As long as the kiss ignites the heart with
waves of light,
as long as the sun dresses the torn clouds
with fire and gold,
as long the air carries perfumes and
harmonies in its lap,
as long there is spring in the world,
There will be poetry!
As long as science does not discover
the origins of life,
and in the sea or in the heaven there is an abyss
that cannot be calculated;
as long as the always advancing humanity
does not know where it's heading;
as long as there is a mystery for man,
There will be poetry!
As long as we feel that the soul rejoices,
without the lips laughing;
as long as we can cry without the tears
blurring our vision;
as long as the heart and the brain
continue struggling;
as long as there is hope and remembrances,
There will be poetry!
As long as there are eyes that reflect
the eyes that look at them,
as long as the lip responds sighing
to the lip that sighs,
as long as two confused souls can
in a kiss feel themselves,
as long as there is a beautiful woman,
There will be poetry!

I hope you liked it! Was it well written?
Greetings!

Miriam