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Written by: SHANNON HALE

I chose this book because I have read the past 2 of the series and, it left me at a bit of a cliff hanger. In this book the author developed a complete new world using 3 background character to bring it together and turn it upside down and inside out as he describes the Jabberwocky’s topsy-turvy un-wonderlandiful Wonderland magic.

The last two books of the trilogy series of Ever After focused on Raven Queen and Apple White, what was conspiring between the two of them and their status as Royal vs Rebels. So the main background story was to follow your destiny by signing the “Storybook Of Legends” to be the character in your story like your parents. 

Like her mother rampageous and dangerous Evil Queen feared by many (she earned her name by going of page causing chaos and the loss of connection between Ever After and Wonderland, by infecting it with a dangerous spell, before she got trapped and forever imprisoned in a mirror attempting to escape using the weaknesses and fears of others) a Rebel Raven Queen decides to not sign the Storybook because truly in heart she isn’t evil. 

Her act puts everyone's destiny in jeopardy and makes their future uncertain. Her act was self-serving although it served the purpose of freeing others from contending to not choose their own path.

The monstrous Jabberwocky escapes and it’s inaccurately predicted by Baba Yaga that it will be sleeping, but instead it seeks to get revenge and convert Ever After into Wonderland. Students starts transform into animals and objects. I have noticed that many will transform into things they really care about or some parts of their destiny. For example Ashlynn Ella becomes a pair of Glass slippers and Cerise Hood turns into a wolf pup as for Raven and Apple turn into literal meaning of their names. 

Students which originally lived in Wonderland and contained some of it’s magic  - Lizzie Hearts, bossy and commanding Wonderland's future Red queen, Kitty Cheshire the next Cheshire with the same devious and mischievous personality, and Madeline Hatter, heir to the Mad Hatter's Hat and Tea Shoppe, seem to be the only ones who haven't completely lost their heads. 

So it's up to them to save their best friends forever after from a curse that threatens to give their school-and their lives-a very unhappy ending when they are faced between a choice to run away into their homeland reuniting with their family as all three Wonderlings were extremely home sick. 

I really enjoyed reading this book because it incorporated many fairytales as well as real life problems such as livings to one’s expectations. I can really relate to it when many people don’t know who Lizzy Hearts really is and see her as a Red Queen junior always yelling “off with your head”, giving orders and playing croquet with hedgehogs, but really, she cares about her garden and her friends.

Kitty Cheshire is most of the time seen as an unreliable and foolish featherbrain. Although she proves herself by not selfishly running away in a sign of danger and thinking about others. She helps Maddie continue the story by partially narrating as well as hiding the sword from the Jabberwock.

When the story narrator gets infected with the wonky magic Maddie as one of the few people that could hear the story being told takes the oath and promises not to interact with the story she must break it in order to push the Jabberwocky through the portal, with accepting following consequences.

I had a few concerns with one of the last parts of the book, where the narrator interrupts speaking random riddlish (it seemed to be confusing and took up space as well it couldn’t move the story forward). I also didn’t enjoy the part when the author refers to readers in another dimension. I would prefer for it to be just the story being told and character being in their own reality, that way you are forgetting that you are reading the book and seem to be in another reality.

Overall I really do recommend this book and hope they make a complete animated sequel to the previous Ever After High NETFLIX series, which is also really great..

 Gerald Durrell and his wife Jackie are making a great collection of animals. This collection is intended to the London`s Zoo. Husband and wife are finding interesting animals and take a care of them. But in Argentina the revolution begins and export of unique collection is in danger…

 Plot of the book is consists of interesting little stories about amazing animals of Argentina and Paraguay. Main characters as you could already understand are husband and wife Gerald Durrell and Jackie but also their lovely pets. Gerald Durrell has subtle sense of humor. His thoughtful wife Jackie helps him with animals. But because of the revolution they forced to let go many thaeir animals go. But to their great surprise birds and some other animals did not want to go because they are used to they are used to being cared for and fed.

 I strongly recommend this book to read because because it is written with humor and stories about animals are very interesting.
Osiagin Ivan

 

"Children of captain Grant" - a novel by French writer Jules Verne, consists of three parts,  in each part the main characters in the story travel around the Earth in South America through Patagonia, Australia and New Zealand, trying to search  captain Grant , strictly adhering to the 37th parallel of South latitude.

July 26, 1864, the men of the steam yacht "Duncan" in the waters of Scotland caught a hammerhead, inside which a bottle with the letters in three languages: English, German and French is found. Although the water much ruined the text, it was able to make out that the English ship Britannia, that had lost at the sea two years before the events of the novel, wrecked, three people are still alive: captain Grant and two sailors, and that they found refuge on some land, lying in the 37°11' South latitude. Longitude the same as the earth itself, which came out of the crash victim, is not identified.    Will they find Captain Grant?
If you want to immerse yourself in adventure, then this book is completely for you. It is full of mysteries, touching moments. no movie is capable of such a magic as a book, you literally follow the characters on their heels, imbued with their feelings and emotions, empathize and sympathize, you make a lot of discoveries.
Zhul Vern is a master of words and images for me. His books are easy and interesting to read.
I definitely recommend this book. If you like travel books, then this is the perfect book for you. I was very pleased to read "Children of Captain Grant."