Wednesday 27 March 2013

The childhood of Jesus



The childhood of Jesus by South-African born writer, J. M. Coetzee, is a book of fiction about a man, Simon and a boy, David who meet on a boat with David carrying a letter

Friday 8 March 2013

Yellow yellow

Yellow yellow is a book that focuses on the issues faced by a young girl of Nigerian and Greek parentage. The circumstances of her birth left her mother humiliated; and being poor, she had to work hard on a small piece of farmland to fend for herself and her daughter. The Greek sailor whom she had hoped would marry her left the shores

The Chronicles of Narnia

Clive Staples Lewis, commonly known as C. S Lewis, wrote quite a number of books in his time. 'The Chronicles of Narnia' is one of his best known books particularly due to the popularity of one of its stories, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrope. The story features four children, Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy and their adventures in the land of Narnia where animals talk and magic generally comes alive. They encounter several mythical creatures such as the Faun (half human, half goat) and Centaur (Half human, half horse), and most importantly,  Aslan (a lion).



 They turn out to be heroes in the end after they defeated the white witch,