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Saturday, August 8, 2020

Henry and Mudge in Puddle Trouble

"Do you want some kittens of your own?" he asked Mudge.
Mudge grunted and wagged his tail again. (p. 40)

Today I read Henry and Mudge in Puddle Trouble, one of the many books in the Henry and Mudge series (RTR2). This book consists of three stories about the young boy Henry and his dog Mudge. The quotation above is from The Kittens, the last of the three stories. Henry likes some kittens and he always takes Mudge to see them. Mudge also likes them, and he licks them.

Like all the Henry and Mudge books, this one is really cute. The drawings by Suçie Stevenson are really good.

Monday, September 10, 2018

Tornado Alley

The clouds get darker and darker. In two or three places, you see tornado funnels starting to come down. If they come down near you, you'll be in big trouble.
"This is not good," you say to yourself.

I am in great trouble. Will I escape from the tornado? As you can see, this is an adventure story. Like the other books in the Atama-ii Books series, it is an interactive story: I need to make choices at most steps in the story. This was actually my third time to read the story, and this time I has a good result: I didn't die in the tornado, and I managed to get a good story and sell it for lots of money. Would you dare to go to Tornado Alley and stay out when a storm comes?

Of course, living in Kumamoto, I'm used to typhoons. But it is not so usual for really bad weather to hit Kumamoto city, and I have never been in great danger. I wonder what it would be like to actually see a tornado?

Ito, L. (2015). Tornado Alley. Florida and Tokyo: Atama-ii Books.