| Booktalk
#1
For some unexplainable reason
Milo just can't see the point in going to school....or doing his homework
either. In fact, Milo has a hard time seeing the point to doing anything
or going anywhere. As far as he's concerned, everything is all just
a big waste of time. Then, one day, something unusual happens.
After getting home from another boring day at school he discovers someone
has left a giant package sitting in the middle of the living room.
Opening it, Milo is whisked away to a fantastical land where he quickly
makes several friends, like Tock, a watch dog with an alarm clock in his
stomach. But there's something strange about this magical world -
none of the adults seem to make any sense - then he learns why. The
two young princesses, Rhyme and Reason, have been banished to the highest
peak of the highest mountain and are trapped there. Milo decides
he must bring them back no matter what the cost. Unfortunately, he
has to get permission from the two kings of the realm, who refuse
to agree with each other on anything. Milo uses all of his cunning
to outwit the two adults, but he and his new found friends will need more
than that if they plan to rescue Rhyme and Reason because monsters of the
worst kind roam throughout the mountains and if they don't hurry the princesses
may never be able to come home. (Miranda J. Hawkins, miranda8980@att.net)
Booktalk #2
The book I read is The Phantom
Tollbooth. It is about a boy named Milo. For Milo, everything
is a bore. When he went home, a tollbooth mysteriously appears in
his room. He drives through because doesn't have anything better
to do than that. He visits Doldrums (it’s a place where you get their
by not thinking of anything). Milo got stuck in the Doldrums.
With the help of a watchdog named Tock who always try to tell everyone
that do not waste time, Milo got out of the Doldrums. They both were best
friends now. The visited Dictionopolis- the place of letters and
digits; Digitopolis- the place of numbers. Milo and Tock visited
the Island of Conclusions (you get their by jumping. And even embarks
on a quest to rescue the Rhyme and Reason!!. He also learns from
Tock that life is not boring. I would recommend that people should
read this book. If somebody is bored all the time, I think that this
is the best book for that person. (Yatharth, student) |
