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Black Beauty

Mujtaba Hasan | Class III-A | Student Correspondent TBT | Beaconhouse Gulshan Primary Branch VI Karachi

Author: Anna Sewell

Adopted by: Mary Sebag-Montefiore

Illustrated by: Alan Marks

Review:

The story is very interesting. It is a fiction story but I like it because it about a brave, big girl. The writer introduced his main character Angelica Longrider. She was born on August 1, 1815. She was a tall girl. She was very brave and performed eye popping wonders. When she was two years old, she built her first log cabin. She loves to help people. She can drink an entire lake dry! The illustration of the story is framed with different types of words. I particularly like the horror and humour of the story.

Swamp Angel

Muhammad Haziq | Class II Amber | BF Canal Campus Boys Faisalabad

Author: Anne Isaacs

Review:

The story is very interesting. It is a fiction story but I like it because it about a brave, big girl. The writer introduced his main character Angelica Longrider. She was born on August 1, 1815. She was a tall girl. She was very brave and performed eye popping wonders. When she was two years old, she built her first log cabin. She loves to help people. She can drink an entire lake dry! The illustration of the story is framed with different types of words. I particularly like the horror and humour of the story.

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zephyr

[ZEFF-er]

(noun)

1: a breeze from the west.
2: any of various lightweight fabrics and articles of clothing.

Synonym: air, breath, breeze, puff, waft
Antonym: gale, furious wind

Example(s) of use;
- "There was not even a zephyr stirring; the dead noonday heat had even stilled the songs of the birds." — Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, 1876

Origin
For centuries, poets have eulogized Zephyrus, the Greek god of the west wind, and his "swete breeth" (in the words of Geoffrey Chaucer). Zephyrus, the personified west wind, eventually evolved into zephyr, a word for a breeze that is westerly or gentle, or both. Breezy zephyr blew into English with the help of poets and playwrights, including William Shakespeare, who used the word in his play Cymbeline: "Thou divine Nature, thou thyself thou blazon'st / In these two princely boys! They are as gentle / As zephyrs blowing below the violet." Today, zephyr is also the sobriquet of a lightweight fabric and the clothing that is made from it.

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