BOOK REVIEW -Green Island-

I read this book. The name of this book is “Green Island.” The cover is designed a man and four children.

Mr Johnson took his class away for the week. They went to a big house called Seabay House. Ms May went too. The children were excited. Seabay House was near the sea and there were lots of interesting things to do. I feel it seems really interesting. And in there, Mr Johnson gave the children a map. Then he took the children for a long walk. After a while they stopped for a rest. The children looked at their maps. Mr Johnson showed them the places they could see. “Your map’s upside down, Biff,” said Wilf. Nadim pointed to a little island out at sea. “What’s that island called?” he asked. “Look on your maps,” said Mr Johnson. “Who can tell me what the island is called?” Chip and Anneena knew. “It’s called Green Island,” they said.

The next day, the children did a beach study. Some children worked with Mr Johnson. They made squares on the beach and looked at everything in each square. Biff found a shell with a crab inside it. I have found the beautiful shell when I’m 10 years old. Chip and Anneena found a seagull. It couldn’t fly. “Oh dear!” said Mr Johnson. “It can’t fly because it has oil on its feathers. Oil is hard to get off, so be careful, everyone. Mind you don’t get oil on you.” “How do we get the oil off the seagull?” asked Chip. I thought that someone could hardly forgive it to do a terrible thing. I thought that very sorry for seagull. Mr Johnson took the children to see Mrs Honey. I think she is a doctor of animals. “If anyone can help the seagull, Mrs Honey can,” said Mr Johnson. “This poor old gull needs a clean,” said Mrs Honey. She looked at Anneena and Chip. ”And so do you,” she said. “Oil terrible stuff,” said Mrs Honey. “You can see what it does to animals and birds if it spills into the sea.” “It is terrible,” said Mrs May. I thought so too!! “I’m having trouble getting it off Chip and Annennal” “I feel really sorry for the seagull,” said Chip. “What will happen to the seagull?” asked Wilf. “Its feathers will be damaged,” said Mrs Honey. “So first we’ll clean the oil off. Then we’ll look after it for a week or two. It has to get strong again, and its feathers have to get better. Then we’ll let it go.

At the end of the week, there was a party. Mrs May played her guiar and everyone sang songs. Mrs Honey came. She told the children stories about some of the animals she had looked after. “But you have the best story to tell,” she said. “It isn’t every school trip that becomes famous!” A photographer came. She made everyone stand in a group. Then she took a photograph. “We’re going to be in the newspaper,” said Wilf. “We are going to be famous.” “I’ve never been famous before,” said Chip. “I wonder what it feels like.” The next day, the story of Green Island was in the newspaper. The children were excited. “I’m going to buy three newspapers,” said Chip. “One for me, one for Mum and Dad, and one for Gran.” “Now I’m famous I don’t feel any different,” said Wilf.

I think that it is very good that their activity appears in a newspaper. It is really interesting story.