Favourite Children’s Stories from China & Tibet

Before I begin, HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
OK, book reports are also in book reviews now. That’s all.
Introduction: The title is the title up there, and the title of one of the many stories in it is here: Chinese Cinderella(West China). This is a treasury of stories from China and Tibet; I suppose they have been modified as children stories to put into the treasury.

Characters: The chief, the stepmother, the stepsister, the girl, the king, and the fish.

Summary:
There was a chief who had a beautiful, clever daughter. Her mother had died earlier, and the new stepmother hated her. But the daughter met a red fish and she gave it food, and they became friends. The stepmother tried to see the fish but she couldn’t and killed it. when the girl realized that the bones of the fish could make any wish come true, she used it and got most of what she wanted, including a blue gown and golden slippers to wear to the festival. When her stepsister and stepmother realized she was there, she ran home, losing a slipper, and soon, the King found the shoes owner, and the girl and the King married, and she brought the bones of the fish. The greedy King found out the secret of the bones, used it, and lost the treasure all together.

My Opinion: It is a very interesting story, but it is sort of plain for a Chinese legend, so I give this story 3 1/2 out of 5 stars.

OTHER STUFF: I would recommend it for a project(The book and the story)
The Lesson: Nothing obvious; I think it is not to be greedy(like the King), and keep up the good work, good will be with you soon(like the girl).
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Cool Stuff and Stories

Okay, I’m finally done my Paradise story. And on the 19th(of December) I got earrings. YAY. I guess. Gloria also got them, and she learned a lesson. People say they don’t hurt, but, yeah, they do! And it’s winter vacation. As usual, I’m bored. There’s nothing to do, that’s why(I was specific!!!). Plus, almost everyone here is sick. I get the sniffles in the winter and I’m not sick and yes, it is gross. Okay. There is a lot of presents under our tree. A lot for our family. Hmmmmmm (deep sigh).

For more stories: I will write another story soon. I think that it will have a lot of sensivity and feeling and inferring for the reading people. All done. Okay. Will write tomorrow or so!

Paradise Love (17)

Anella finally stopped her writing, and actually looked her work over, read it all. It is okay, she thought. But a horrid thought struck her mind. Ulysses:what was going to happen to him and the other characters? Holding her papers to her chest, she mumbled to herself while running to where Ulysses lived. She opened the unlocked door(?), and saw that it was vacant. She went all around the house. No one. Up the ladder to the attica; still no one. Scared, she left the house. When she left, Ulysses came out of the shack, and chased after her. In a faery-tale way, through their selfless minds, they agreed to marry(In real life, Grace thinks this is truly weird). And they did. It seemed that if they were together in a form, the characters would, well, stay.

THE END

P.S. Watch for more; maybe there will be more. Maybe.

Paradise (16)

Eloise wished for many, many, many items and well, wishes. A few of them were: it was very mature of her to think of marrying(she told her sister and her sister just about got sick), hoping that her adventure with the mancers were kept forever, and a unicolourn(a multi-coloured unicorn). She secretly wanted to find out what had happened to Rednaxela. It was brave of him to say that during the war of flowers, and she hoped he wouldn’t get into trouble. So she told Ulysses that, and ran to the far side of SpringParadise.

Along the path(neatly and newly paved with dried chrysanthemum), she saw a group of mancers struggling to hold up a huge box. They, to her human ears, were shouting something like ‘Xela Jean’(Jean pronounced the French way). Eloise dashed behind a girgous tree, sat down, and translated. ‘Jean’ meant ‘gone with’, and ‘Xela’ was the rude way of saying someones name(specifically, Rednaxela…). Eloise knew what the mancers were doing. Luckily, they dropped the box and ran to the mushroom huts. She carefully crept towards the box. You could never be too careful near the mancers. She opened it, and.  .  .in the box was a young boy. He looked up sheepishly, as if he expected Eloise there. He mumbled something like ‘Hi’, but you couldn’t possible tell. Eloise roughly grabbed the back of his collar and tugged him to their home. Eloise normally wasn’t this mean, but she was so stunned that she did so. When she got home, she spoke to the boy. He said his name was Alexander, and that he was accidentally caught in the spell to transform the mancers to pretty young ladies. Eloise was bewildered. But she sent him back to his parents, and she remembered something: when a new mancer appeared, they are to say their name backwards until they get a mancer name. It all made sense.

TO BE CONTINUED.  .  .  .  .  .

Paradise (15)

Anella rushed to Ulysses’ place, and knocked seven times, in groups of two. The last knock was the loudest. The knocks signaled that she needed help. Ulysses answered it. She told him her predicament. In Fandigger’s head(as he was in the house), he thought, Conflictious. Ulysses said that he had thought about a scene he had seen in his cup of water all morning. He showed her the paper which he wrote the vision on.

Ulysses saw pretty ladies all in a row, bickering madly. Not very lady-like, he thought. But one of them kept looking at him that sent tremors down his spine. No, not in a flirty way. Like a way when.  .  .  . Fandigger looked at him. Unless.  .  .  . they WERE the mancers! He knew it. He decided to trick them, by letting them think he was tricked. On the other side, Fandigger knew that he knew so he pretended that he didn’t know Ulysses was tricking them. But at the end they knew what the other knew, and Rednaxela said after a few nervous minutes that they were to fight, they knew what each other was thinking, so just fight! Rednaxela earned a big smile from his mates, but a scowl from Fandigger. Ulysses smiled at Rednaxela, like a truce. But it only lasted a second, when Fandigger raised his bouquet, which instantly turned into a sword. Luckily, Eloise did have a small army ready, and she saw what had happened. And she let the army fight. Soon after, everyone fought the mancers. And they gave up and lived in the far side of SpringParadise. But Eloise had her own problem.  .  .  .

TO BE CONTINUED.  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .

Short and Insightful( Not really)

Hi!! Right now I am at school. It is 10:15 AM. it is Dec. 15. Later, when I’m at home I will write Paradise.

I’m back now. It is still Dec. 15, but it is 5:37 PM. Yes this is really short. We were (at school) doing our Social Study project with Windows MovieMaker. Just something my teacher has learned. Teachers learn too, by the way. Like today’s Intermediates X-Mas Concert. Lots of teachers including Ms.Isbister were in it. And Ms.Lewis, the principal. (Strange sigh). Okay that’s all I will write Paradise.

Stanley Park And That’s It

On Sunday December 4th, we obviously went to Stanley Park. I guess it was fun. Like before, here is a bit about my journey:

OK. We started that morning by waking up early. I packed a bag just for fun, too. So did Gloria. So we went on the car for a very loooooonnnnnng time, past Science World and Roger’s Arena with a funny picture of Luongo. Then we got there, and we parked and we jumped out of the car. It was freezing, and it seemed that we were near where the bicyclists were. My dad got the parking ticket. And we just walked around looking at GIANT trees. And super-plump squirrels. And salmon creek, except there was no salmon. Then we got back on the car and went to this( I got it all mixed up, it’s not in order: sorry!)totem pole place. Totem poles are still freaky(freakish) looking. And there was a shoppe that reminds me of the longhouse we went to in grade 4. The shop part, I mean. It was pretty cool, although on the poles, there was a missing poster of a man. Oh, and near the totem poles was a river that I presume flowed to the salmon creek. And it was frozen. Me and Gloria tried to break the ice by throwing rocks. That plan failed. And then we went to a restaurant where I got a blueberry muffin for later, clam chowder(superb) with salmon hidden under it, and fish and chips. It was good. And everyone else besides for Gloria had burgers. Now that I remember, we went to this ocean/sea, and threw salt and rocks into the water, causing splashes and ripples. It was disturbingly peaceful and calm. On the other view of the body of water, I saw broken clamshells. After all that, we finally rode home.

That’s my journey. And, do you like Paradise? I’ll write soon.

Paradise (14)

This is very short.

Fandigger grabbed some wheat and a poahk stick and some dimre leaves, and ‘borrowed’ a weaving woman from the leaf shack next toadstool house, and told her to make twenty-four gowns. The woman was scared, so scared that she obeyed( although she was a mancer, talking to the boss is a whole different story.). Amazingly, she finished within seven hours, earlier than Fandigger’s planning with his strategist. Fandigger dressed his team into the costumes, and began his plan.  .  .  .

Anella wrote that all down when she got home. But for once, she was stuck.

TO BE CONTINUED.   .   .   .   .   .

Paradise (13)

In the tree house, where Ulysses were, he thought about what exactly had happened. He wanted to blame Anella, but he told her to write all what she heard, or saw, etc. When she walked in the door, Ulysses gestured for her to go to the attica of the tree. There, he told her  about the mancer. It was Fandigger, but in real life, like the other characters, they were all nice, but still, your old enemy is still, well, a rival.

Eloise’s army idea was turned down. And Fandigger was ready to fight. Except he didn’t want to waste good lives of young mancers. So he decided to disguise his team. Not the DYLBAR part of the team. He chose the disguise of a group of well mannered young women. Which he didn’t realize till the last moment that mancers were not well mannered. Absolutely not.

TO BE CONTINUED.   .   .   .   .    .

Paradise (12)

At school, Anella just couldn’t concentrate. She tried to read the reading book, but she couldn’t even do that. So she grabbed an extra piece of paper, and copied her ideas for the fight between Ulysses and Fandigger.

Ulysses, although he was weak, he was sly. And that was what mancers aren’t. Holding a shovel in his hand, Ulysses hacked the mancer. Fandigger was stunned, and his discomfort gave Ulysses enough time to hurt him, but not enough to kill him. But it sure did make Fandigger and his group back down.

Meanwhile, Eloise had found out what happened, and now decided to lead a entire army to scare all the mancers away.  The mancers, at the time, were debating either to have the great Ulysses to themselves, or DYLBAR/ Drop your leaf-powered bayonets and run. Most of the MParliament picked DYLBAR, but Fandigger was convinced, that they would get Ulysses, and he was stubborn. They would do as he would say, and plainly, die.

After Anella copied it down when she got home from school, Eloise was at her house, with an invitation to a lunch at the island. Anella, though surprised, agreed. Deliberately, she walked to the island, and was absolutely stupefied. To see a mancer at the door.

TO BE CONTINUED.    .     .     .    .