Meeting Anthony Browne

On Friday, me and my mum and brother went to  meet Anthony Browne at Shakespeare’s Globe. Anthony Browne is a famous author. He writes children’s books. My favourite book he wrote is Willy the Wimp. Have you heard of it?  

We learnt how to play the shape game. It was so cool. This is how you play it:

One person has to draw a line in any shape (Anthony Browne said take the line for a walk). The other person has to turn the line into a picture (Anthony Browne said that everyone can draw).

When we left we got him to sign some books like Willy's Stories and Willy The Dreamer and he drew a picture in everyone’s book. I got a gorilla and William got Willy the Wimp.

It was really fun meeting him. We all loved it. Have you got some questions? I might be able to answer them.

Anthony Browne

Anthony Browne

Anthony Browne                      Today we are going to meet Anthony Browne. Here are the questions that I might ask him.

1.How do you write your stories?

2.Where do you write your stories?

3.Why do you write your stories?

4.Do you have any books that you have finished but not published?

So hot Sorrento

 We recently went to Sorrento in Italy, by train from Rome. We were like sardines in a can and the temperature was 36 degrees! SO HOT!!!!

We finally got there and my Mum and big sister were in a different carriage so we had to meet outside on the platform. Then we went to Sorrento beach.

me looking at the beach

We had to go down heaps of steps. Down, down, down - it was a long, long way down.

On the sand there were so many people. We hopped in the water and had a good time. It was so refreshing.

beach

After our swim it was time to go. Yes! We found an elevator to take us back up to the road. There was a really long queue to go on the elevator and you have to pay. We thought we should pay the money because we didn't want to go up all those stairs.

We hopped back on the train and went back to our apartment to get ready to head out for dinner.

me and my sister 

Jousting at Hampton Court Palace

Last week, me and my family went to Hampton Court Palace to see the jousting. We got to sit in the front so we had a really good view.

There were knights in shining armour on horses. It was, well, amazing. I could hear the crowd cheering and hooves thundering all around.

When they are jousting, the knights gallop towards each other. They try to hit the other knights with their long poles. They get points each time they hit them. They have a big wall in the middle so they don’t get the horses injured when they do it. The winner was Sir Walter.

There was a band playing old music. Ba-de-da-ba-de-da-bababa!

After the jousting, we went to the maze and my mum and dad got lost.  It was our turn to be the knights in shining armour - me and my brother. We had to rescue our parents.

Bugsy Malone

Knuckles!!!!! Last week me, my mum, my brother, and nana went to see Bugsy Malone at the Lyric theatre. It was really good.

The show is about gangsters and show girls in New York.There are guns but instead of bullets they shoot out custard.

My favourite song was, ‘We are the very best at being bad’. My favourite part was when Knuckles cracked his knuckles and Fat Sam yelled, ‘KNUCKLES!’ He did that a lot of times.

The show ended at like midnight then we went back.

Stonehenge

Stonehenge

Last week, we went to look at Stonehenge. Stonehenge was built in the stone age. The stones came from Wales. They brought the rocks all the way from Wales to Salisbury which is about an hour and a half from London. How did they do it? Why did they do it? Noone really knows. They put it in position for the Summer Solstice. The heaviest stone is equal to the weight of 540 adults. That's pretty heavy!

Me in front of Stonehenge.

This might be how they pulled the rocks.

This is a stone age house.

In the stone age you would sleep in one the homes.