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Monday, October 13, 2014

AWARD WINNING BOOKS AND AUTHORS ( IN THE SPOT LIGHT) - CLASS IV

Geronimo Stilton, writer
Born in New Mouse City, Mouse Island, Geronimo Stilton is Rattus Emeritus of Mousomorphic Literature and of Neo-Ratonic Comparative Philosophy. He is the director ofThe Rodent’s Gazette, New Mouse City’s most widely read daily newspaper. Stilton was awarded the Ratitzer Prize for his scoops on The Curse of the Cheese Pyramid and The Search for Sunken Treasure. He has also received the Anderson 2001 Prize for Personality of the Year. One of his bestsellers won the 2002 eBook Award for world’s best ratling electronic book. In 2006 he won a Nickelodeon Kids Choice Award and in 2008 he won the Cartoomics prize “Beyond Comics.” His works have been published all over the globe. In his spare time, Mr. Stilton collects antique cheese rinds. But what he most enjoys is writing books where he tells his famouse adventures!
AWARDS- Ratitzer Prize for his scoops on The Curse of the Cheese Pyramid and The Search for      Sunken Treasure. He has also received the Anderson 2001 Prize for Personality of the Year. 
Some Books by Geronimo Stilton- 
  • 1: Lost Treasure of the Emerald Eye (February 2004)
  • 2: The Temple of the Ruby of Fire (December 2004)
  • 3: The Mummy with No Name (August 2006)
  • 4: The Mysterious Cheese Thief (August 2007)
  • 5: Valley of the Giant Skeletons (January 2008)
  • 6: Geronimo and the Gold Medal Mystery (April 2008)
  • 7: Geronimo Stilton, Secret Agent (July 2008)
  • 8: A Very Merry Christmas (October 2008)
  • 9: A Fabumouse School Adventure (July 2009)
  • 10: Singing Sensation (October 2009)
  • 11: The Karate Mouse (January 2010)
  • 12: Save the White Whale! (April 2011)
  • 13: The Haunted Castle (July 2011)
  • 14: Run for the Hills, Geronimo! (October 2011)
  • 15: The Mystery in Venice (January 2012)
  • 16: Get Into Gear, Stilton! (July 2013)

Aman Swarn
Class IV A

Name of the Book : Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures
Author : Kate Di Camillo, K. G. Campbell (Illustrator)
Award :Newbery Medal Award
Year: 2014

About the Book-It begins, as the best superhero stories do, with a tragic accident that has unexpected consequences. The squirrel never saw the vacuum cleaner coming, but self-described cynic Flora Belle Buckman, who has read every issue of the comic book Terrible Things Can Happen to You!, is the just the right person to step in and save him. What neither can predict is that Ulysses (the squirrel) has been born anew, with powers of strength, flight, and misspelled poetry—and that Flora will be changed too, as she discovers the possibility of hope and the promise of a capacious heart. From #1 New York Times best-selling author Kate DiCamillo comes a laugh-out-loud story filled with eccentric, endearing characters and featuring an exciting new format—a novel interspersed with comic-style graphic sequences and full-page illustrations, all rendered in black-and-white by up-and-coming artist K. G. Campbell.
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Ishaan Mathur
Class : IV  B
&
Yuvika Jain 
IV D

J.K. Rowling (Writer of Harry Potter) has received many honours and awards, including:
  • Author of the Year and Lifetime Achievement Award, British Book Awards, 1999 and 2008
  • Booksellers Association Author of the Year, 1998 and 1999
  • Order of the British Empire (OBE), 2001
  • WH Smith Fiction Award, 2004
  • Prince of Asturias Award for Concord, Spain, 2003
  • Blue Peter Gold Badge, 2007
  • Commencement speaker, Harvard University, USA, 2008
  • The Edinburgh Award, 2008 
  • James Joyce Award, University College Dublin, 2008
  • South Bank Show Award for Outstanding Achievement, 2008
  • Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur: France, 2009
  • Hans Christian Andersen Award, Denmark, 2010
Yatharth Sachdeva
Class IV C
&
Niharika Jain 
Class IV D











Name of the Book
Author
Award
Year
Tree of Smoke
Denis Johnson
National Book Award for Fiction
2007
Head off & Split
Nikky Finney
National Book Award for Poetry
2011

Radhika Aggarwal 
Class IV C



Name of the Book - TOM RIVER- A Story of Science and Salvation
Author                      - Dan  Fagin
Award                       - Pulitzer Prize for General Non Fiction
Year                           - 2014
About the Book      - The riveting true story of a small town ravaged by industrial pollution, Tom River melds hard hitting investigative reporting, a fascinating scientific detective story and a new classic of science reporting.

Hariyank
Class IV C



Front Cover
Name of the Book
Author
Award
Year
Abstract
The God of Small Things
Arundhati Roy
Booker Prize
1997
It is a story about the childhood experiences of fraternal twins whose lives are destroyed by the "Love Laws" that lay down "who should be loved, and how. And how much
Aditya Pundir
Class IV C
&
Drishty Jain
Class IV D

Smile
Name of the Book- Smile
Author                    - Raina Telgemeir
Award                    - Young Reader's Choice Award
Year                        - 2013
About the Book   - It is a story about a girl who has injuring her two front teeth frustrating journey, of again braces surgery and it is a specially story based on dental drama.
Arshita Jain
Class IV C

The Inheritance of Loss
Name of the Book- The Inheritance of Loss
Author                    - Kiran Dasai
Award                    - Man Booker Prize
Year                       - 2006
About the Book    - The book follows the journey of Biju, an illegal immigrant in the US who is trying to make a new life, and Sai an Anglicised Indian girl living with her grandfather in India.
Manav Gupta
Class IV C

Life of Pi
Name of the Book- Life of Pi
Author- Yann Martel
Award- Booker Prize
Year    - 2002
About the BookPi Patel, a God-loving boy and the son of a zookeeper, had a fervent love of stories and practices not only within his native Hinduism, but also Christianity and Islam. When Pi is sixteen, his family and their zoo animals emigrate from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship. Alas, the ship sinks--and Pi finds himself in a lifeboat, his only companions a hyena, an orangutan, a wounded zebra, and a 450-pound Bengal tiger. Soon the tiger has dispatched all but Pi. Can Pi and the tiger find their way to land? Can Pi's fear, knowledge, and cunning keep him alive until they do? 
Nimit Jain
Class IV D

Front Cover
Name of the Book- The Man with the Golden Arm
Author                   - Nelson Algren
Award                  - National Book Award for Fiction
Year                     - 1950
About the Book     - A novel of rare genius, The Man with the Golden Arm describes the dissolution of a card-dealing WWII veteran named Frankie Machine, caught in the act of slowly cutting his own heart into wafer-thin slices. For Frankie, a murder committed may be the least of his problems.The literary critic Malcolm Cowley called The Man with the Golden Arm "Algren's defense of the individual," while Carl Sandburg wrote of its "strange midnight dignity." A literary tour de force, here is a novel unlike any other, one in which drug addiction, poverty, and human failure somehow suggest a defense of human dignity and a reason for hope.
Abhinav Katiyar
Class IV D
&
Avishka 
Class IV D



The Goldfinch: A Novel         
Name of the Book - The Goldfish
Author                     - Donna Tartt
Award                      - Pulitzer Prize
Year                         - 2014
About the Book       - Theo Decker, miraculously survives an explosion that takes the life of his mother. Alone and determined to avoid being taken in by the city as an orphan, Theo scrambles between nights in friends' apartments and on the city streets. He becomes entranced by the one thing that reminds him of his mother: a small, mysteriously captivating painting that soon draws Theo into the art underworld.
Janika Shankar
Class IV D

Front Cover
Name of the Book- Ordinary Grace 
Author                  - William Kent Krueger
Award                   - Edgar Award
Year                       - 1954
Yash Pandey
Class IV D


Front Cover
Name of the Book-  Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra
Author's Name      - Ruskin Bond
Award                   - Sahitya Akademi Award
Year                      - 1992
About the Book    - It is a collection of short stories by Ruskin Bond each story is very closely interlinked with the other. In this book Ruskin traces his life from childhood through teenage to adulthood.
Jiya Vohra
Class IV D