Book Review.
Tiles: 1 Tunnel under the Thames
2 Exploring the Amazon
3 Mark twain’s Mississippi
4 Gold on the Yukon
Author: George P. Mc Callum
Year of publication: 1985
Characters:
1 Tunnel under the Thames
Isambard: is a engineer of the tunnel , is strong and tall.
Duke of wallintong: he is one of the persons that donate money for the construction of the tunnel.
Marc Brunel: he has got the idea of doing the tunnel.
2 Exploring the Amazon
John Floyd: is a child that is studying in the school, it is small.
Clarence Spencer: is the teacher of geography, is tall and strong.
Francis Peck: is another child from the school he study with John, we don`t know nothing about his aspect.
3 Mark Twain’s Mississippi
Horace Bixty : he want to cross the Mississippi in a boat called Paul Jones, is an old man.
Sam Clements : is a man that works in the Paul Jones, is very strong.
4 Gold on the Yukon
The man that want to travel to the Yukon. They didn’t say nothing about his name or his appearance.
Summary
1 Tunnel under the Thames
A man called Marc Brunnel wants to build a tunnel under the Thames so some important people provides money for the building and then Marc hire engineers for build the tunnel, so they build it.
2 Exploring the Amazon
This story begins in a school when the teacher Spencer is leading the children to represent the discovering and exploration of the Amazon.
3 Mark Twain’s Mississippi
Horace Bixty wants to cross the Mississippi on a boat called Paul Jones with the Sam Clements help, at the end Bixty got finish the journey, but Sam Clemens died at the attempt.
4 Gold on the Yukon
This is the story of a man that want to go to Alaska to find gold, he had to pass a lot of difficulties , and finally he find a lot of gold.
My opinion
-What did you like Best? Why?
I like best the Exploring the Amazon because they are childrens like me and they are in a class.
-What did you like least? Why?
I like least the death of Sam Clements in Mark Twain’s Mississippi because I hate the deaths.
-Would you change anything in your tales? What? Why?
