Matilda | Book vs Film

So, one of my favorite and one of the first of  Roald Dahl's books that I have added to my library is the book entitled Matilda and  I have also watched the movie based on this book. So now, I'd like to compare the two:

Matilda Wormwood, as I know, is a young girl who loves to read (so do I). But she has some mean parents and a big brother who like to watch TV all day long. And at school, she has the kindest teacher she's ever had. But there is also the meanest headmistress that you could imagine, called Miss Trunchbull, who hates children, and in the end, Matilda got Miss Trunchbull, and her family to leave. At least, that's what both the book and the movie say.

The book seemed a bit shorter than the movie, but the movie left out a few things that the book said. For example, the movie said that Matilda played a few "pranks" on her family and showed that she turned her dad's hair a different color and glued his hat to his head. The book, on the other hand, said all this except it also said that Matilda had put a parrot in the fireplace and her family thought there was a ghost in the living room. The book also said that Matilda was moved to fifth grade. The film didn't say that. Oh yeah, and in the book, Matilda's mom was fat and her father was thin. In the film, it was the other way around!

Anyways, no matter how different the movie and the book are, Matilda is sure to be liked by kids all the same. I hope you liked this.

HAPPY READING!

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Piano Lessons At Home

I love music, and I love the piano. So, my grandfather gave me a keyboard that I can play at home.

To me, playing the keyboard is quite easy once I knew the basics, like identifying the different keys.But if you'd like to know, there are three things that you really need to remember:

1. Practice
2. Persistence, and
3. Enthusiasm

Practice, well, of course everybody knows what practice is and, uh persistence means you keep trying and trying even if you keep falling (I'm not talking about falling off a plane). And enthusiasm means to be really excited about what you are doing. So far, I have learned the chorus of Let it Go from Frozen, Amazing Grace, a teeny bit of See you Again, and a really tiny bit from Bluestone Alley. Of course, if you're brand new (Of course, you're not for sale) to the keyboard, or the piano, I think you should get Usborne's First Book of the Keyboard. To me, the best thing about knowing very well how to play the piano or keyboard only from home is that you can surprise your friends and family by playing right in front of them the next time they come to your house for a visit, even the grown-ups! That would be nice, wouldn't it? A kid surprising a grown-up for a change. Oh yeah, right, how I learned from my comfy, cozy ordinary home? The answer is simple: I programmed the high quality browser, and calculated the path to the highly complicated VHS server. What? Confused? I was just kidding. It's really just one word: Youtube. I go to youtube and search for the kind of song I want to play. Like, for example: How to play ______ on the piano / _____ piano tutorial or something like that. And now, to answer a few questions before you ask. No, I didn't get help from my parents. No, I haven't actually completed any songs except for Amazing Grace, and No, I can't think of anything else that would be asked. Anyway, I hope you like this (Whoever you are) and Have FUN!    

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