DAY 1: BOOKWORMS
Activity 1: Rags to Riches [4 points]
J. K. Rowling is one of the most well known authors in the world. She wrote the Harry Potter series of books. Over 500 million copies of her books have been sold, making J. K. Rowling the world’s first billionaire author.
While she was writing the first Harry Potter book, she was a single mum with very little money. She used to write while her daughter Jessica was asleep. She used her initials ‘J.K.’ instead of her name (Joanne) because her publisher thought that boys might not want to read a book written by a woman.
J. K. Rowling has done many interviews which have revealed things about her as a writer and as a person. One of these interviews was conducted by a very famous television personality, Oprah Winfrey (you can find more about her on Day 3, Activity 1!).
As well as books needing to be engaging and interesting for the reader, it is important that they are engaging and interesting on the cover too. We sometimes say “Don’t judge a book by it’s cover” but we often choose books (if we don’t know much about them) when they hav
e an attractive cover!
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Mōrena Courtney,
ReplyDeleteKa pai on making it to week four of the Summer Learning Journey, you are so close to finishing you should be so proud of yourself!
Tino pai on a great post today! I really enjoyed reading about J.K Rowling at the top of your blog post before your book cover design. She is one of my favourite authors and the Harry Potter books are some of my favourite books ever!
Thank you for sharing your design of a book cover for your favourite book. I have never heard of this book before so maybe i’ll check it out over the Summer.
I am trying to build my reading list for 2020. Do you create reading lists? If so, what’s on yours for this year? Ngā Mihi,
Kueni