Elsley Primary World Book Day 2017

Elsley Primary World Book Day 2017 Are you all ready for the challenge? Who are the better readers: teachers or pupils?

How well do you know your books? Round 1 How well do you know your books?

Pupils- What am I reading? “If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it. A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts it will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.” 

The Twits by Roald Dahl

Teachers: What am I reading? When he was nearly thirteen my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow. When it healed, and Jem’s fears of never being able to play football were assuaged, he was seldom self-conscious about his injury. His left arm was somewhat shorter than his right; when he stood or walked, the back of his hand was at right-angles to his body, his thumb parallel to his thigh. He couldn’t have cared less, so long as he could pass and punt. When enough years had gone by to enable us to look back on them, we sometimes discussed the events leading to his accident. I maintain that the Ewels started it all, but Jem who was four years my senior, said it started long before that. He said it began the summer Dill came to us, when Dill first gave us the idea of making Boo Radley come out.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee

Pupils- What am I reading? If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book. In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle. This is because not very many happy things happened in the lives fo the three Baudelaire youngsters. Violet, Kluas and Sunny Baudelaire were intelligent children, and they were charming, and resourceful, and had pleasant facial features, but they were extremely unlucky, and most everything that happened to them was rife with misfortune, misery, and despair. I’m sorry to tell you this, but that is how the story goes.

A Series of Unfortunate Events- The Bad Beginning by Daniel Handler (not really Lemony Snicket)

Teachers- What am I reading? “No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.” 

War of the Worlds By H.G. Wells

How well do you know your stories? Round 2 How well do you know your stories?

Teachers- Name the book…

The Jungle Book By Rudyard Kipling

Pupils-Name the Book….

Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland By Lewis Carroll

Teachers- Name the book…

Romeo and Juliet by Shakespear

Pupils-Name the book…

The Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling

Teachers- Name the book…

A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens

Pupils-Name the book…

Gangsta Granny By David Walliams

Do you really know the stories and books in detail? Round 3 Do you really know the stories and books in detail?

Teacher’s Quiz How well do you know books? In which book would you find Aunt Spiker and Aunt Sponge? What are the names of Harry Potter’s parents? In the Hunger Games, what is the name given to Katniss Everdeen’s younger sister? Who is the narrator of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird? In which fictional book series will you find Crossland High School

Teacher’s Quiz How well do you know books? James and the Giant Peach Lilly and James Prim (Primrose) Scout Diary of a Wimpy Kid

Pupils’s Quiz How well do you know books? In which book would you find Little Nutbrown Hare and Big Nutbrown Hare? In J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan, what is John and Michael Darling’s sister called? What is the name of Sunny, Klaus and Violet Baudelaire’s guardian in Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events? What nationality is Yassen Gregorovich, a villain from Anthony’s Horowitz’s Alex Rider books? Who’s the headmistress of Crunchem Hall Primary School in Roald Dahl’s Matilda?

Little Nutbrown Hare Wendy Count Olaf He is Russian Miss Trunchball

Can you match faces to authors? Round 4 Can you match faces to authors?

Pupils- Can you name the authors? Shakespeare Michael Rosen JK Rowling Julia Donaldson Michael de Souza Jackeline Wilson

Teachers- Can you name the authors? H.G Wells Harper Lee Philip Pullman Maya Angelou Meera Syal Charles Dickens

Round 5 Illustrators bring certain books to life and are just as important as authors. But how well do you know them?

Pupils - Name the illustrator… 1. Kenneth Grahame 2. Eric Carle 3 Pupils - Name the illustrator… 1. Kenneth Grahame 2. Eric Carle 3. Roald Dahl

Teachers – Name the Illustrator Maurice Sendak

Name the illustrator… 1. David Walliams 2. Tony Ross 3. Nick Sharrot

Teachers - Name the illustrator… Shirley Hughes

Name the illustrator… 1. Lewis Carroll 2. Tony Ross 3. Beatrix Potter

Name the illustrator… Quentin Blake

Name the illustrator… 1. Axel Scheffler 2. Lauren Child 3. A.A. Milne

Teachers - Name the illustrator… Roger Hargreaves