The Elephant In The Garden

The Elephant In The Garden

By Michael Morpurgo

Reviewed by Hanne.V (age 9)

The story is about three people there is a boy named Karly, a girl, elephant and the children's mother. The girl is telling a story about her when she was younger. To a nurse and her child at the rest home, the girl is old now. The night before the girls birthday her mother got their elephant back from the circus and put it in the garden. The next day (the day of the girls B-day) there were bomb’s that dropped out over their city out of planes. They had to leave their city and go to the children's mothers sisters place. When they got there, they were not home.So they went to see if they were in the barn. There was someone in there. It was someone that bombed their city.They became friends and the man gave them a compass. But there dad had gone to go to war and after the war he was coming home.

I think this book is suitable for 7 year olds and up.

Hanne's Blog Post Week 10 Term 1

The NZ Flag   

I would like to keep the original New Zealand flag because it’s been the New Zealand flag for a long time. Mum’s nana is 99 and she says the original New Zealand flag has been around longer than her. She can still bake cookies they are so yum.  She has had pretty major falls and that was scary.

 I do not care if we have pretty much the same flag as Australia. But they do say that Australia has more money than New Zealand. So why doesn't Australia change their flag instead?

I vote for the original New Zealand flag.