Making a Book Is Harder Than You Thought

Making a book is harder than you thought. It's not just a bunch papers with writing you staple together. In the first video you have or are about to see the lady talks about how they started making books in 2nd century Egypt to 2011. Notice how they started making the books out of expensive material, and then got cheaper and cheaper but still made more money.

Modern day books go through advanced machines but if you're a worker and the machines don't work guess who's fixing! It's a lot easier making books though. Watch these videos to learn how books were made a long time ago and in new modern times (it's too much work for me to have to explain all this, so watch the videos)!

Read this summer - and get rewarded!

Hey everyone! I recently was looking at Green Apple Bookstore's website and guess what - they're offering a reward for kids who read twenty books this summer!

Their blog (http://thegreenapplecore.blogspot.com/2010/07/hey-kids-read-and-be-rewarded.html) have more info.

Start reading, get rewarded, and have fun!

Hillwood Yearbook Publishing Ideas

Some ideas for our yearbooks include:

~The Stock Contest for 7th to 8th graders; write down the chosen stock companies

~A staff page with names, ages (optional), position at school, and something personal about them

~Graduating class and attending high schools in fall semester; include names, ages, etc. under picture/photo of student

~Kindergarten graduating class. Include photos of field trips, events, etc. on page.

~Achievements for "Person Who Read Most Books," "Honor Roll," "Best Halloween Costume," "Most Athletic Person," "Top Student in Blog Class," etc.

~List of Top Field Trips

~Favorite Singer/Movie Star

~Muir Woods Overnight

~"Traveling Around the World" page where kids can send in articles about going on vacations

~Ideas of summer activities

~Favorite sports and games

~Funniest moments in each class

~Most memorable moment in each class

~Book reviews

~Favorite lunch at Hillwood

~Favorite pet/animals

~Top books read in class this year

If you have any more ideas, please comment below =).

Credits go to Irene, Brigette, and Anya

Google Books!

Google Books is a place on Google where you could find books and reviews. For example, if you look up The Pigman, it opens up the whole book. It also will show other versions or related books.

If you look up Romeo and Juliet, it will open the play. And so it is with all the other books you look up. All you have to do is to go to google.com. If you need to look up something, go to Google Books and you can read the first chapter or the whole book. They highlight the key parts and words, and you can easily search for words and phrases in the book.

The Pigman and Google book

This book The Pigman is about a two high school sophomores named John and Lorraine prank calling a a man named Angelo Pignati. John and Lorraine pretend they are charity people called The L and J fund. So John and Lorraine went to Mr. Pignati's house to get 10 dollar from Mr. Pignati.

John and Lorraine called Mr. Pignati the Pigman because his wife collects faked pigs. After that Mr. Pignati asked John and Lorraine to go to the zoo. So John and Lorraine ditch school and went to the zoo with Mr. Pignati. Mr. Pignati showed John and Lorraine Mr. Pignati's friend named Bobo who is a baboon. After that John and Lorraine loved Mr. Pignati better than their parents. John and Lorraine discovered that his wife is not at vacation they discovered that Mr. Pignati's wife is dead. On December John and Lorraine told Mr. Pignati that they are high school sophomores. Mr. Pignati had a heart attack and then died.

Google Books is a service from Google that searches the full text of all the books that Google scans. Google Books can help students to find the full text of a book and it is good for researching information for book reports.

By Brandon

Read With Your Kids, Especially on Lit World Day

Does your child enjoy reading? If not, there is a way people can change that "No." On March 3rd, 2010, there will be a read aloud at Books INC., in San Francisco from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Reading can help your kid fall in love with language. By this, your kids might bring you a book for you to read. Also, your child can be exposed with forms of language (like how to make good sentences and on grammar). This can help your kid in language at school.

Kids need to enjoy the way books are made. When kids enjoy books, it can help them with their actions. Did you ever think about how reading can build you and your kids relationship? Well, it can! As kids read, they can express their feelings. You can also deal with issues kids may be going through. Finally, kids can learn the power or strength of a story.

I would encourage parents to read with their children because it can bring happier lives into this world.

For more information about the book reading in San Francisco on March 3, click here.

To learn more, go to:

http://litworld.org/wrad/submissions/

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/storysection=view_from_the_bay/parenting_babies&id=7297850

The Beauty of Birds and Art

http://www.birdbook.org/

This week most of our interactions with birds will come courtesy of Thanksgiving dinner. But we urge you to check out some other feathered creatures at the simply gorgeous Birdbook, an elegant site dedicated to Bird, Andrew Zuckerman’s recently released book of photography.

Zuckerman and a team of bird specialists enticed the inhabitants of several aviaries to swoop, soar and posture in front of a simple white sheet. The result is startlingly vivid and lifelike shots of birds outside their normal environments, which makes for a wild visual experience. With each of the 87 entries (from African Fish Eagle to, yes, Wild Turkey) comes helpful information such as genus, height and wingspan, plus most of the entries include each bird’s personalized call. The pictures even seem to capture a bit of bird personality: a Red-legged Seriema stalks through its shot; a puffed-up Great Horned Owl regally poses; a Golden Eagle glares (rather vengefully) at the camera. Game, on.

One Hundred Books the BBC Thinks You Should Read

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma -Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Inferno - Dante
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo