Friday 17 April 2015

A special event is coming soon ....

Next week  we celebrate  the  BOOK WEEK
We remember Miguel de Cervantes  who wrote " Don Quixote"
 He  died  on 23rd April 1616 -


" Famous literary works  became  famous films"
We read some famous books  that became  films

Here are some English novels you know 

                     J.M. Barrie
Sir James Matthew Barrie was a Scottish dramatist,
Born on May 9, 1860, in Scotland.
J.M. Barrie was a Scottish dramatist, best known for writing Peter Pan in 1904,
 or " The Boy Who Would Never Grow Up"  

                                
 Book Film
Lewis  Carroll   

Lewis Carroll was   the pen name   of Charles L. Dodgson, 
author of the children's classics "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
Born on January 27, 1832 in Daresbury, Cheshire, England
Charles Dodgson wrote and created games as a child.

 Book     Film
                 Robert Louis B. Stevenson
Stevenson was born in Edinburgh, Scotland,  on 13 November 1850
 He  was a Scottish novelist , poetessayist, and travel writer.
His most famous works are "Treasure Island 
 “Kidnapped, and “Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
  Book   Film



He  was an Anglo-Iris satirist, essayist, poet and 
cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin

He wrote Gulliver's Travels, "A Journal to Stella", "The Battle of the Books"

 Book Film  

  Roald  Dahl
Roald Dahl ( 3 September 1916 – 23 November 1990) wasBritish novelist,
 short story writer, poet, screenwriter, and a fighter pilot.
Famous works :
          
                     Books
   Films

C.S. Lewis 
29 November 1898 (in Belfast ,  Ireland)- 22 November 1963
Clive Staples Lewis was  an Irish write.
C.S. Lewis went on to teach at Oxford University and became a well-known writer
Lewis wrote more than thirty books   
  Book    Film 








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