JEFF BROWN

WHO IS JEFF BROWN?

Jeff brown was born in Toronto Canada in  January 1st 1926, and died in December 3, 2003 from a heart attack , he was 77 years old. 

He had worked in Hollywood as an editor and a writer in New York before creating the flat Stanley book, a hero book for young readers.

 He worked with an illustrator named Tomi Ungerer. 

The first book was published in 1964, the last flat Stanley book called flat again! Was published the year Jeff brown died.  

ASARA 

SUZANNE COLLINS

Early years of Suzanne Collins 

During her child hood Collins moved around a lot of places like New York, Brussels and many more. Collins Knows a  lot about the military because  her dad, Michael told her a lot of stories about his military experiences, including his deployment to Vietnam. 

Collins graduated from high school at Alabama school of fine arts in 1980. Then she went on to university and graduated in Indiana University in 1985. She then went on to do a Masters Degree in dramatic writing from  New York University.  

After University Collins moved into Television as a children’s television writer. She worked for the creator of the W.B children’s programme, she was his head writer.

Then she got Married with Charles Pryor in 1992 and they have two children together.

Vidhant 

Roald Dahl

Roald Dahl top 5 selling books are...

The Twits


Matilda


The Witches


James and the giant peach


George's Marvelous Medicine



My favourite book is the BFG but it didn't make the top 5 list. 

Jayden 

Anthony Horowitz

Some quick facts about Anthony Horowitz 

Anthony began writing because he wanted to be like Tintin the character. He has travelled to all the place’s that Tintin has in his books (except the moon).


Snatmore Hall (in the switch) is based on the house where Anthony lived as a child. He had a nanny, two cook’s, two gardeners, a chauffer and he hated it.


He was sent to a revolting boarding school Orley Farm, in North London. The headmaster and his wife featured by the name in one of his TV episodes. He depicted them as mad Nazis’.


Anthony got married in Hong Kong. He didn’t understand the ceremony because it was in Chinese.

If you would like to find out more... make sure you come to our school expo in week 6. 

Seini 

Author studies

This term we are all studying different authors. Keep checking in to see what we find out about our fantastic writers.

List of authors

Jayden - Roald Dahl
Maria - J K Rowling
Anna - R J Palacio
Shalin - Elisabetha Dami
Chris - Rick Riordan
Maata - Lois Lowry
Tina - Jeff Kinney
Sina - Jacqueline Wilson
Vidhant - Suzanne Collins 
Mya - R J Palacio
Yeasin - Dave Pilkey 
Jerimiah - Roald Dahl
Mac - Morris Gleitzman  
Leah - Judy Blume
Teinakore - Andy Griffiths
Seini - Anthony Horowitz
Aisea - Roald Dahl
George - Roald Dahl
Summer - Elisabetha Dami
Levi - Brandon Mull 
Asara - Jeff Brown 

Player of the day!

Last Saturday at netball my team (Starlights) versed Matariki our schools other year 7&8 team. We lost to them by 14 points. I pretty gutted that we lost, but they played really well.

The position I played was GD so i had to defend the other teams goal, and not let them score. I was tired by the first half, but I still kept going because I was committed.

At prize-giving I was awarded, player of the day, which meant I got a certificate and a voucher for Burger King. I'm going to keep the voucher for the holidays.

It felt amazing being named player of the day.

Jayden

Book Review

Title: The boy in the stripped pajamas

Author:  John Boyne

When did the story take place? During World War two

Where did the story take place? Berlin, Germany

The main characters of the story: Bruno, his parents, Gretel, Maria, Shmuel

What the book is about is about:

This book about a boy and his family who have to move from Berlin because his father gets a new job. Bruno doesn’t enjoy his new environment because he misses his friends. On one of his walks he finds a friend called Shmuel and their friendship develops throughout the book, which leads to a surprising and sad ending.

What part did you like the best and why?

 It is when Bruno helps his friend find his Grandpa but they end up lost. We enjoyed this part because it showed that true friends will do anything for each other and that kindness is important.

By Jayden, Sina and Leah