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Hi! It became gradually hot recently. So, I want to eat an ice cream recently!! By the way, a test period finally began! Do you like test? I don’t like it, so it is depressed that I go to university recently. But summer vacation almost begins, so I do my best!! Also, I have 13 tests in this term, so it is very hard to me. Also, what subject do you like? I like writing and environment theory particularly. By the way, the test of another five subjects is left. I have 3 tests tomorrow. There are biology, listening and Japanese history, so I must study today. I do my best!!

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BR:1-14 Princess Polly and the Pony

“Princesses must not gallop!” said the King. “Or canter! Or trot!” But Princess Polly loves riding, so she enters the Pony Dressing-Up Race… in disguise.(Back Cover)

Heroine of this story is Princess Polly. She liked riding a pony and playing in the mud.  So, her father, the King and her mother, the Queen were always getting angry her. She was in trouble and her parents said that she must behave like princess, but she didn’t want to do anything. One day, Polly spotted a poster when she was walking on the way with the King. It was poster about Pony Games and Polly wanted to join in. However, the King and the Queen are giving the first prize, so the King said you can’t enter. She wanted to join in the race by all means. On the day of the race, she put on her costume and crept outside. And she climbed onto Pickle, the smallest pony, so they went to the Games. The race was about to begin and she enjoyed this race. However, she can’t win because her parents mustn’t see her. Do you think who win this race?

There are 47 pages in this book, but it was very easy to read for me because this story was very interesting. And illustration of this book is very cute, too. I thought that Polly might want to play like the ordinary girls all the time. Also, I thought that I want to ride on pony sometime after I read this book.

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Susanna Davidson ; illustrated by Dave Hill

London : Usborne, 2007

BR:1-13 The Flying Carpet

The flying carpet takes Biff and Kipper into an adventure. Who is the boy in the tower? How can Biff and Kipper help him? (Back Cover)

One day, Biff and Chip were shopping with Dad. And then Biff found an old carpet in the back of the shop. She became want it more and more, so she asked Dad if she could have it. It was very dirty, but Dad allowed her to have it. And she cleaned it with her Mom, so it became clean. Biff and Kipper were reading a book on the carpet, and then this carpet started flying suddenly. They were flying over a town by the carpet and they found a little boy in the top of a tower. He is a king of this land. However he was crying because he was locked in this tower by his wicked uncle. His uncle is a very bad man, so nobody is happy. So Biff and Kipper helped a little boy and he could meet his mother. And they went to the city because they defeated to his wicked uncle. Well, would they beat a wicked uncle?

Key of this story was a flying carpet. If there is a fling carpet, I want to ride on it. And I want to fly in the sky. How about you? Also, this story was very interesting adventure. So I want to read other books of this series, too.                
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Roderick Hunt, Alex Brychta
Oxford University Press, 2003

BR:1-12 Columbus and the New World

Christopher Columbus lived in Europe in the Europe in the 1400s. He wanted to find a new way to travel from Europe to Asia by sea. So Columbus went on a long sea trip, but he didn’t know what he would find. What happened to Columbus? What did he find? (Back Cover)

Do you know about Columbus? I didn’t know a little about him and I knew only that he found America. He was born in Italy in 1451 and at that time, a lot of people in the world thought that the earth was flat. However, many educated Europeans realized that the earth was indeed round. By the way, there are several reasons why he decided to find new way. It was a new sea route from Europe to Asia because at the time Europeans wanted spices from India and China, but it cost too much money to carry these products from the East using the traditional land and sea route. So, he left Europe for a new way in 1492. And a sailor on the Pinta cried out on October 12, 1492 so he could see land. It land was America. I think that he had courage and was very bravery. This story is very interesting.

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BR:1-11 The Goose that laid the Golden Eggs

Tom and Elena are poor but happy until the day Tom finds that their little white goose has laid a golden egg. Every morning they find another egg, every day they grow richer- but what happens when one golden egg a day just isn’t enough? (Back Cover)

I thought that this book has an important message. It is that if you were greedy, you might lose everything. At first, Tom and Elena were very poor and they had everything they needed, but they changed to rich life because they found golden egg one day. And they were greedy more and more, so they may have forgotten importance of the ordinary life. If they used importance of a lot of money, they might keep rich life. Also, I found importance of the money and I thought don’t want to be greedy. And I want to live and think about the future. Also, this story is one of Aesop’s and it is known all around the world.

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retold by Mairi Mackinnon ; illustrated by Daniel Howarth

London : Usborne, 2006