Puck

MY FAVOURITE BOOK

Name: Antoni Sousa Piñeiro Curso: 2º ESO Date: 27-02-2013

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Summary Biography List of sentences Personal response to the plot Language and techniques Bibliography page.

SUMMARY The book is about “Puck”, a student of “Trébol de cuatro hojas”, a school from “Egeborg” in “Denmark”. She and her friends discovered a legend about a king's treasure, and they will have to find out where the treasure is.

BIOGRAPHY Pseudonym: Lisbeth Werner Carlo Andersen: Was born in 1904, he died in 1970. he was a Danish author who together with Knud Meister wrote numerous books for young people. They have became very famous for the series of Jan, which they wrote under their own names, but they also gave out a long list of books about Puck under the pseudonym Lisbeth Werner.

Knud Meister: was born in 1913, he died in 1989. Best known is the series the best known series is on “Jan” before but Meiszter and Andresen also wrote the series about “Puck” under the pseudonym Lisbeth Werner. Knut Meister also wrote detective novels.

LIST OF SENTENCES Page 95 (You would be the ruin of yours, Karen said smiling) -Tú serias la ruina del tuyo- opinó Karen-.

Page 20 (The money is necessary if one has got a wife because dressmakers and beauty salons don’t work free.)

-El dinero es necesario si uno tiene esposa tan bella, los estilistas y los salones de belleza no trabajan gratis.

Page 26 (What about snakes family into Halcon´s bed.

It´s not a good idea, poor animals! They would die poisoned when Halcon bits them.)

-¿Qué te parece una familia de víboras en la cama de Halcón?

No sirve- contestó su amigo- Imagínate si el Halcón les muerden a las víboras, los pobres animales morirían envenenados.

Page 105 (Why aren't you interested by tinned ham? That was what we had to eat when the steaks disappeared.

-Pero ¿Por qué no se interesa por el jamón en lata? Fue lo que nos tocó comer al desaparecer la chuletas.

PERSONAL RESPONSE TO THE PLOT The book has an unpredictable plot. Kidnappings, treasures, leyens... I didn't think that the book could have unexpected things.

When I started to read, it seemed a boring book but little by little the book was more amusing.

LANGUAGE AND TECHNIQUES The language is simple and easy to read.

The vocabulary is a bit strange, for example: formidably throbbing BIBLIOGRAPHY Title: “Puck y el tesoro” web page: Biography: http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knud_Meister http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Andersen