A Super Imaginative Tale

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Have you read Redwall? I devoured this 300+ page tale after my friend introduced it to me. I love ♡ the characters and the plot. The author Brain Jacques is so imaginative.

Redwall is about a mouse whose name is Matthias. He is an orphan that lives in Redwall Abbey.  His quest is to get the famous sword of Martin the Warrior and kill Cluny the Scourge. In this story, some of Matthias's friends die, which is kind of sad 😢, but there are lots of happy parts 😊, too. 

Redwall is a great tale. The book is divided into three sections called "books": The Wall, The Quest, and The Warrior.

This book is full of adventure and is action packed. I love the way you can see the characters in your mind. Brain Jacques is such an imaginative author.

Brian Jacques wrote Redwall  for children at a school for the blind in Liverpool, so he focused strongly on descriptions. That must be why you can see the characters in your mind. After that, an English teacher read Redwall, and showed it to a publisher without telling Brian Jacques. This resulted in a contract for the first five books in the Redwall series and a dedication to the English teacher in the front of several Redwall books. I think it is funny that someone showed Brian Jacques' work to a publisher without permission,  He must have been upset at first.  (I would be really mad if I were Brian Jacques 😠.)  After that, though, I bet he was happy. 😀

SPOILER ALERT

In this book, I like how Cluny is crushed by a the St Joseph's bell.
I don't like how Methuselah and Abbot Mortimer die in the book.


I really enjoyed Redwall and think you would to

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You can learn more about Redwall at the Redwall website.
   

Check Out What We Did at D.I.!

Hi, guys!

Some of you might know what D.I. is.  For those that don't, D.I. is Destination Imagination.  It is a competitive program where you work for months on a challenge and then compete others who chose the same challenge. 

This was my first year competing.  My team chose the tech challenge.  Here we are before we competed:

On the day of competition, we got to the contest, ate, watched a few other teams, and, then. got into our instant challenge. (Sorry, we can't tell you about that yet.  We are sworn to secrecy until Memorial Day.) Then, we went to do our team challenge.

This is us during the challenge:

In our challenge, we had to make a stage that used a technical method to move someone from one spot to another.  We also had to have two tech effects, one in our opening act and one in our headlining act.  We also had two choice elements.  Ours were a waterfall/projection screen and our stage design.

For our stage, we combined everyone's ideas into one, so we had a football field, a wrestling ring, and two jungle islands with a waterfall all at a circus.

We were surprised at the end of the day, because we came in third place!  (My mom did not even think we would place.  She was happy for us just to get to the competition, but, I wasn't.  I wanted us to place.)

Bye!
Luke

P.S.  I am sorry it has been so long between post again.  Life is super busy, and I have been doing other things.  I have a Youtube channel now where I post Mincraft, Kodu, and Civ videos.   I also just had other things to do.  I want to post more here now again.  Please tell me what you'd like to hear about.