The common book

The common interactive book written by the project partners

Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia http://nightlibrarybook.blogspot.com/

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Table of Contents 1. Introduction 2. A meeting with Anne 3. In The Reptile Room 4. Satan from the 7th grade 5. The legend of Spud Murphy 6. Girls and Maťko and Kubko 7. Frightened Kate and Julie 8. Kate began to read...

9. Pigs Budkáčik and Dubkáčik 10. Helping the ants 11. Ending

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Introduction Once upon a time, somewhere in Europe, in a school library, an unusual happening took place. A group of students decided to check, what's happening in the library at night.

Children have heard, that during this time ghosts use to appear, characters come out from books and the library becomes a magical place.

They spent in the library a few hours on joyful games and plays, but nothing weird happened. A little bit disappointed, a while before midnight, they got home. But not everyone.

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Two best friends, Kate and Julie, had hidden earlier in a corner and had a little gossip talk. They haven't noticed that everyone had already left, and the librarian had locked the door. As they discovered that they are alone, it was too late.

They were screaming and knocking, but nobody heard it.

The clock chimed midnight and something weird happened.

The girls heard a rustle behind their back. They carefully looked behind bookshelf's and saw a book gnome, which was strolling between the shelves. Shyly they approached to him and that was when he spoke.

- Don't be afraid, it's fine you're here. Finally someone new.

Every night I meet the same characters. Let me show you some interesting books.

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Kate, who wasn't really into reading, answered: - What for? They are all boring anyway.

On the other hand, passionate book lover Julie was very glad.

The gnome said: - Wait, maybe you'll change your mind. We start a magical journey through different books. Feel invited.

We also invite you to the magical journey in the world of books. Each part of our book is about another characters and different adventures.

Have fun.

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A meeting with Anne

http://www.amazon.com

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The book gnome invited girls to such place in the library, that they haven't ever been in and they didn't even know about its' existence. There was a lot of bookshelves filled with old books there. In the middle stood a red chair.

Smitten Julie shouted: - Look - how many books!

Disappointed Kate grunted: - Why to read if you can watch a movie instead...

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Julie noticed her favourite book „Anne of Green Gables�

L.M.Montgomery. She took it in her hand, and the gnome said: - Sit on the chair, it's big, you'll both fit.

When the girls sat down, Julie said: - Some day I would like to meet Anne of Green Gables and to see Canada - the country of her origin.

That was the moment, when unbelievable thing happened.

On the cards of the book a shadow of Anne appeared. It was growing little by little and finally became Anne Shirley. The red-haired character took the girls by their hands and in a second they relocated on Prince Edward Island, right in front of her home.

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Anne showed to girls her house and her favourite places.

They met Anne's best friends - Diana, and were even able to see Gilbert Blythe from a little distance. Anne talked about her biggest failure - she was trying to get rid of her plaits which she hated and she painted her hair green.

Panorama of Green Gable farmhouse and grounds - Wikimedia Commons

She took them to the Ghost Forest and to a glade full of violets. Girls laid on a grass to smell the flowers and, as they opened their eyes, they were back in the library again, and on the red chair there is the gnome waiting for them.

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Curious Kate decided to borrow the book "Anne of Green Gables" to discover further adventures of Anne.

http://www.tourismpei.com/anne-videos

Now go HERE and play with Anne from Green Gables.

How do you imagine the Green Gables and girls' stroll with Anna over the Prince Edward Island? Make a comic book about it in a programme called Pixton. See our example.

Create a porait of Anne from Green Gables in a programme called Voki. Introduce yourselves as you were her.

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In the Reptile Room

http://www.goodreads.com

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Only just when Kate and Julie managed to get back from their journey to Green Gables, the book gnome brought them another guest. That was Violet Baudelaire, one of main characters from A Series of Unfortunate Events, a series of books written by Lemony Snicket.

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Violet is the oldest among her siblings. She has a younger brother Klaus and a sister Sunny. Violet has a talent to construct inventions, which help her and her siblings in tough situations. Her recognition sign is a tape, which she ties her hair with.

Violet approached the girls. She smiled a little bit. She took them by their hands and pulled them in the direction of the red chair, which engagingly jumped and twisted on one leg. As everyone sat on it, in one moment the library changed into Uncle Monty's house.

Violet said, that she took friends in the place, where she feels well and most comfortable, almost as in real family. The guardian of Baudelaire family was at the moment dr.

Montgomery Montgomery -herpetologist. His passion were reptiles. He had a huge collection of snakes gathered in The Reptile Room and was still planning a research trip to Peru.

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Violet introduced the girls to her sister Sunny and brother Klaus. She showed them Incredibly Deadly Viper, which, despite the name, was really humble and made friends with Sunny.

How do you imagine an Incredibly Deadly Viper and Sunny?

Paint them HERE.

The children told Kate and Julie about their misery: the loss of their parents and another guardians, which cared only about their huge wealth. Together they walked around The Reptile Room and met Uncle Monty, who invited them to have a cup of hot chocolate.

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Tired friends shut their eyes for a moment and when they opened them, they were in the library again. Curious about tough lifes of Baudelaire siblings, they agreed to read every part of A Series of Unfortunate Events.

If you want to be with likeable Baudelaire siblings for a little while longer, go HERE and play.

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Satan from the 7th grade

http://www.nk.com.pl

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Best friends Kate and Julie, which stayed in the library for a night, meet another characters who come out from books.

This time the book gnome brought them a young, brighthaired boy, in which the girls recognized Adam Cisowski - the main character of the popular Polish book Satan from the 7th grade, written by Kornel Makuszyński.

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Adam Cisowski is a smart and logically thinking student of 7th grade (of past Polish education system), with a nickname "Satan", who is distinguished by his detective skills, thanks to which he already managed to solve a few problems.

Adam asked if the girls wanted to help him solve a mysterious case. When they agreed, the red chair took them to a Polish castle in Kliczków, near Bolesławiec. That was the place where Adam told them about worries of castle's owners. It appeared, that every night another door of castle's accomodation dissapears. Professor Gąsowski asked Adam to solve the mystery.

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After many adventures it occured that one of the doors hid a sign informing about a concealed treasure. The girls got really ivolved in searchings, they were running all around the castle and finally got lost. They ended up in a huge, empty hall, where the only thing was the red chair. They understood that it's time to go home.

What do you think the girls have done?

You can choose from two versions.

HERE

HERE

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They sat on the chair and in a second they were back in the library. They didn't know if Adam managed to solve the mystery and found a stealer. They decided to necessarily borrow the book and find out how the story ended.

Maybe they liked such adventures? What do you think? Write it in a comment.

Try to make a short movie about Adam's adventures.

Use a programme called http://domo.goanimate.com See our example.

The girls got lost in a labyrinth of castle's corridors. Help them to find a way out.

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They enjoyed a walk around an old castle and a cooperation with handsome Adam so much, that they decided not to go back to the library.

How could their future adventures look like? We are curious about your ideas. Write in a comment your vision of happenings.

Adam tried to catch the doors stealer. How do you imagine him?

Create his portrait in http://www.sp-studio.de.

See our example.

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The Legend of Spud Murphy

by Eoin Colfer

http://www.eoincolfer.com

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Kate pulled from bookshelves book, on the cover showing a potato gun.

- Another horrible book, I am sure - she said.

- There is nothing worse than when your mom during the holidays entered the library, and you've got between her musty shelves every day to spend two hours. It is the perfect scenario for the debacle.

http://clubs-kids.scholastic.co.uk/products/1343

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Julia looked at the book and laughed.

- Of course, you do not know this story. It is so funny.

Gnome approached: - The book about five brothers in one house? Yes, there things often get out of hand. When Dad has ‘had enough’, he decides that Will and Marty should spend the afternoon in the Library. But he doesn’t know about the librarian, Mrs Murphy, neither did Mom.

http://clubs-kids.scholastic.co.uk/products/1343

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Kate made her eyes around: - Can Will and Marty survive the legendary librarian and her gas-powered spud-gun?

- How the two brothers and the librarian bring about change the library needs is a funny and exciting adventure with touching consequences - confirmed Julia.

Gnome was sure that this is a perfect story for reluctant readers as well as keen readers. Perfect for Julia and Kate as well. Follow-up fight with the librarian is also interesting because of remarkable and entertaining illustrations.

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The author is reading first chapter

http://www.pearsonschoolsandfecolleges.co.uk/demos/Literacy_Evolve_April2010/Reading/video1.html

Book trailer we made in Slovene:

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Girls and Ma큐ko and Kubko

http://www.martinus.sk

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Kate and Julie decided to take another adventure with the book gnome. He grabbed their hands and they all were began to wiggle all. After a while they discovered two figures. They had hats on the heads, clothes were as Walachians. Everyone started rotated and rotated and suddenly they appeared in the mountains...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ETTYFTNdfs

Girls found, that Maťko and Kubko are shepherds sheep.

They have got a dog. Suddenly they prepared a fire and tried to jump over the fire. Kubko suddenly started to scream and jumped around Maťko and Kate. They thought that Kubko is dancing. Only later they found that Kubko‘s trousers were burning. Julie jumped on Kubko and she put his hat on his burning bottom. There left a big hole on the back of the trousers.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ETTYFTNdfs

They were going to the chalet and Kubko tried to sew big hole. He gave into the needle long sewing and he stitched...

But the sewing was too long and he was stitching, he ran out of the chalet where he turned around and came back ...

And while he was stitching he stitched pants on hat. They cut away the hat and the hole was even bigger.

Then Ma큐ko advised to Kubko to give the pants Kate and Julie. Girls called for help the book gnome.

And in the morning were trousers sewn. They were even more beautiful than before.

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Kubko was so happy that the girls donated two sheep. Maybe can help them find their way back to the library ...

Your task: Print and find a right way to sheep:

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Frightened Kate and Julie

http://www.martinus.sk/?uItem=81090

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Kate and Julie find themselves alone in the library. There was only darkness and silence ... After time they saw a little stars.

They were all around them. And the stars gradually changed on various monsters.

Girls know the ones that made with their friends from Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic in their Lexicon - for example Zobitriočko, 48 očko chlpaté, mummy, Dlhozubec, Kníhdupák, Knihomňam and the others.

They were afraid and Kate started screaming and shouting that if all the ghosts disappear, so she’ll begins to read books.

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Suddenly they heard a fight of two girls. There appeared also a book gnome and lit up. Before them stood two exactly the same girls. They were called Danka and Janka.

Everyone fell silent, ghosts disappeared and twins Kate brought the book Danka and Janka from writer Mary Durickova.

http://www.martinus.sk/?uItem=81090

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They told her that if she read a story about Gevenducha then she’ll understand why ghosts disappeared. Kate said thanks and she started to read.

Your task Try to get pieces with monster in the righ place:

http://www.jigsawplanet.com/?rc=play&pid=268415ffa6cf

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Kate began to read...

http://www.martinus.sk

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Kate still sat with Julie in the library.

Kate started read a book about Danka and Janka, but when she read the story about the ghost Gevenducha, she closed the book. She was angry.

She didn’t find why ghosts disappeared near Danka and Janka.

You do not know get advice for her?

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After a while Julie ran up to Kate.

She found a book gnome how he doing something with dog and cat in the corner of the library.

When she loves books and she had read the book about dog and cat she knew that they making a cake.

They gave into cake everything - soap, ketchup, jam, mustard, bones ....

http://www.paseka.sk/

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However, after a while they disappeared. Kate was curious to see how it ended with their strange cake.

Smiling book gnome snapped his fingers and immediately was given to Kate a book I had a dog and a cat written by a writer Jozef ÄŒapek. Kate began to read ...

Task for you: Do you remember words from our dictionary?

Help dog and cat to fill the crossword. Try instead Slovak words to English words. You can to print this crossword.

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Pigs Budkáčik and Dubkáčik

http://www.martinus.sk

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Girls had very funny with the story about the dog and the cat.

Kate even began to read and she very laughed with a fairy tale how the dog and the cat were cooking the cake together.

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When she was reading a book gnome stopped her, because the ghost Kníhdupák wanted to catch him. He was angry that the book gnome does not want to show him a book about two little pigs.

Julie already has heard about them. These two pigs are called Budkáčik and Dubkáčik and this book was written byJozef - Cíger Hronský. They are funny stories about two funny pigs and Kníhdupák does not like them. He wanted to find and destroy the book!

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Therefore Julie decided that she finds this book and hides it before Kníhdupák. Kate told her that she help her. Try it too?

Can you help them?

Your task: Search for words. Then you can go to the library. Lend a book Dubkáčik and Budkáčik - you'll rescue them before Kníhdupák.

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Helping the ants

http://www.bux.cz

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The book gnome came to Kate and Julie and said: Dear girls, one of my good friends asked me to help him.

It is a good ant Ferda who lives in the anthill and takes care of everything there.

Nowadays they have big problems there – they have many new babies nad too few nannies to look after them.

Come please and help them.

http://www.supermamina.cz/omalovanky/ferda-mravenec

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The girls agreed so they followed the gnome to the redchair, sat on and immediately they occured in the middle of the anthill.

There were many ant babies crying, so they gave milk to them and put them to sleep. Then they helped to tidy up all toys and prepared other milk.

Ferda offered them a tour though the ant hill, explained and described the life there.He also devoted a book to them full of stories from his life outside and in the anthill.

The girls then returned back to the library looking forvard to reading about Ferda (Ondřej Sekora) and his friends.

http://www.bux.cz/knihy/68743-ferda-mravenec.html

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Colour the picture:

http://www.omalovankyonline.cz/ferda-mravenec/

Watch a story from the anthill:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=BMu3-6Zj4o8

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The Ending

Girls, so busy with books, didn't notice that outside there was getting brighter. Exciting reading was interrupted by the book gnome, who said: - Soon there will be morning, so I have to say goodbye to you two. In the library there will be readers, who will take place of gnomes and ghosts.

I'm curious if you liked meetings with book characters and our journeys through their worlds?

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Girls shouted together: - It was fantastic! We will never forget those adventures.

- And you, Kate, what do you think about reading now?

- I didn't know that reading is fun, and books hide such great adventures. (See why)

http://linoit.com/users/sp1bolec/canvases/Why%20is%20it%20worth%20to%20read%3F

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As soon as the librarian comes, I will take "Anne of Green Gables", "Satan from the 7th grade", "Maťko and Kubko" and "Danka and Janka".

And I'm taking - added Julie – "Series of Unfortunate Events", "The Legend of Spud Murphy", "I had a dog and a cat", "Budkáčik and Dubkáčik" and "Ferda Mravenec".

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So, you won't be bored in next few days I suppose. I will dissapear in a moment, but firstly I will tell you one more secret. I will leave you with a magical bookmark. If you ever had a wish to get back to the world of books, take it in your hands and think about me.

Do you want to know, what will happen next?

- Yes, sure! - answered Kate.

- Let's try, then.

As they all touched the magical bookmark, they moved to a strange hut full of books. Some of them were really old and covered with dust, some were brand new with shiny covers.

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That is the magic house on a tree. Sometimes children like you come by - they are siblings: Jack and Annie. When they discovered this place they loved the story of dinosaurs.

On one of the pictures Jack saw a pteranodon during a flight.

He touched the picture with his finger and said "I wish I could see him flying".

As he did that, the house trembled, spinned, and the children moved to the era of dinosaurs. If you want to know the rest of their adventures, read the series of books called „Magic Tree House� - Mary Pope Osborne.

When they discovered this place they loved the story of.

http://www.magictreehouse.com

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Sources: • http://wikipedia.org • http://www.goodreads.com • http://www.lemonysnicket.com • http://www.amazon.com • http://www.tourismpei.com/green-gables-house • http://www.unfortunateevents.com/ • http://www.martinus.sk • http://www.eoincolfer.com • http://www.pearsonschoolsandfecolleges.co.uk •

http://www.supermamina.cz/omalovanky/ferda-mravenec/

• http://www.bux.cz/knihy/68743-ferda-mravenec.html • http://www.magictreehouse.com

Authors Students from:  Czech Republic  Poland  Slovakia  Slovenia The common interactive blog: http://nightlibrarybook.blogspot.com/ The project "A Night in the library”: http://nightlibrary.blogspot.com/

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