walking stick and proceeded towards the door of the Monster Books cage.
Hang on, said Harry quickly, I ve already got one of those.
Have you? A look of enormous relief spread over the manager s face. Thank heavens for that. I ve been bitten five times already this morning .loud ripping noise rent the air; two of the Monster Books had seized a third and were pulling it apart.
Stop it! Stop it! cried the manager, poking the walking stick through the bars and knocking the books apart. I am never stocking them again, never! I thought we d seen the worst when we bought two hundred copies of The Invisible Book of Invisibility - cost a fortune, and we never found them ... Well, is there anything else I can help you with?
Yes, said Harry, looking down his booklist. I need Unfogging the Future, by Cassandra Vablatsky.
Here you are, said the manager, who had climbed a set of steps to take down a thick, black-bound book. Unfogging the Future. Very good guide to all your basic fortune-telling methods - palmistry, crystal balls, bird entrails ... emerged from Flourisg and Blotts ten minutes later with his new books under his arms, and made his way back to the Leaky Cauldron.
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КОНКУРС № 4 - КОНКУРС капітанів
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Ведучий: It s no doubt that books are an important and necessary thing for our civilization. They are not only a way of relaxation, but they play a major role in shaping our cultural life. The books broaden our outlook, develop our artistic taste, deliver a lot of useful information. Books differ in their kinds: there are novels, poetry and drama, ballades and fairy tales, picture books and detectives. Books about great people teach us to be hard-working. Books about famous travelers teach us to be brave, honest and noble. And fairy-tales teach us no to be lazy and naughty. Some people read for instruction, some for pleasure.
Choose an author as you choose a friend - a proverb says. So, the first task of the competition of the captains is as follows: each Captain should tell us some facts from his favourite author s biography without naming him. His rival should guess the name. 1name is Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, and he was born on 27 th January, 1832. He was educated at Richmond School in Yorkshire, Rugby School and Christ Church, Oxford. From тисяча вісімсот п'ятьдесят п'ять to тисяча вісімсот вісімдесят одна he was a lecturer of mathematics at Oxford, where he was a somewhat eccentric and withdrawn character. He was most comfortable when being with children, especially little girls in whose company his usual stammer completely disappeared.most famous works are Alice s Adventures in Wonderland (published in 1865) which he wrote to entertain Alice Liddell, daughter of the dean of Christ Church , and the sequel Alice Through the Looking-Glass which appeared in 1872. In 1869 he published Phantasmagoria and Other Poems, an entertaining collection comprising thirteen humorous poems and thirteen serious ones. In 1876 a long nonsense poem, The Hunting of the Shark, appeared. In тисяча вісімсот вісімдесят п'ять came A Tangled Tale, designed to interest children in mathematics. 1 889 saw the publication of the fairy story Sylvie and Bruno, and its sequel Sylvie and Bruno Concluded was published in 1893.
He wrote many other nonsense poems and books, as well as mathematical works which appeared under his own name. He died of bronchitis in his sisters home in Guildford on 14 th July, 1898.2nicknames are Jo to family and friends, JK to fans and Jake to friends who want to annoy and tease her about the JK title. She was teased about her last name with things like rolling pin and Rolling Stone while growing up. Her initials J.K. Rowling were used because the publisher feared boys wouldn t want to read the Harry Potter adventures if they knew they were written by a woman. was born in 1965. Jo has said she was a pudding-faced child with glasses, and rather studious; a shy, snotty, swotty little kid and very insecure. Her favourite school subjects were English and languages. The first story she wrote down (when she was five or six) was about a rabbit called Rabbit. He got measles and was visited by his friends, including a giant bee called Miss Bee.the age of twenty-six Jo went to Portugal and taught children English as a second language. She later taught French in Edinburgh, Scotland. idea to write about Harry Potter came to Jo in 1990. She completed the first book over a five year period. She wrote at cafes, on trains, while her little baby slept in a carriage nearby. There will ...
