Salut Dingy Saint Clair! First card sent to France

Bonnes nouvelles!

Our first card to France is in the mail! Its destination is Dingy Saint Clair, a beautiful picturesque village located in the French region Rhône-Alpes, 1190 km away!

Hope Johanna will like this lovely literary postcard featuring some scenes from one of Jane Austen's masterpieces, Pride and Prejudice (1813).

As its title suggests, Austen's novel wonderfully illustrates the drawbacks of pride and prejudice when you meet someone for the first time, especially if that person could turn out to be the love of your life! 

If you haven't read it, watch the trailer of its film adaptation...both the novel and the film are a must!

As this is the first postcard sent to France, French students were invited to write it in French and let Johanna know about our Third Book Festival, celebrated 3 weeks ago. 

They have also looked for information about Dingy Saint Clair and have posted their findings here.

Un grand merci à tous!

We hope our friend from Kirchhain, Germany, will like this postcard of Jane Austen’s Emma!

Postcard 32 has been sent to Kirchhain, a town very near the heart of Germany, more than 1,500 km away!

Hope our friend Solveig will like these illustrations representing some scenes of our favourite comedy of manners in English: Jane Austen’s Emma (1815)

If you haven’t read it, let us tell you that Emma is a very entertaining and wonderfully written novel about matchmaking and misconstrued romance. Its protagonist Emma Woodhouse is “handsome, clever, and rich” but also a bit spoiled and, above all, not very skilled in matchmaking, which will lead to unexpected tragicomic situations!

Anabella, Luis and Silvia have explained to Solveig why they have chosen this postcard; you can find the reason here.

Thank you, guys!

If you want to read about Kirchhain, Solveig’s hometown, visit our section EXPLORING PLACES!

4 new literary postcards ready to be sent out!

Students have been so creative during our school’s Third Book Festival! After reading A Classic Collection retold by Julie Hart, 4th ESO students have chosen their favourite short stories and turned them into comic strips with the help of their Art Teacher, Irene. Do you like them?

The Lottery Ticket by Anton Chekhov (1860-1904)

Illustration by Jennifer Rodríguez, Oumy Sylla, Lara Vázquez and Joel Mendy

Sredni Vashtar by Hector Hugh Minro (Saki) (1870-1916)

Illustration by by Viviany Feick, Svety Stoicheva and Noel Iglesias

The Thieves in the Cupboard by Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)

Illustration by Lucía Pérez, Natalia Rodríguez, Ana Sofía Moreira, Yesenia Muñoz

The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893)

Illustration by by Cecilia Araujo, Carlos Rodríguez and Diego Rojo

We’ll print all the four illustrations as full-colour postcards and will write them and send them to four different places somewhere in the world! 

CONGRATULATIONS, guys! We love them!!!

Postcard 31 is a wonderful card sent to Saint Petersburg, Russia!

Our first literary card is on its way to Saint Petersburg, 3222km away! 

You may well remember that “Literary Cards” is an initiative we came up with a few weeks ago in an attempt to contribute to our school’s Third Book Festival.

Ledicia has chosen a wonderful postcard elaborated by ESO 3 students after having approached one of their favourite works in English, Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, whose 150^th anniversary was celebrated last November.

We hope our Russian friend, Anastasia, will appreciate this postcard, which offers a glimpse into Wonderland, the fantastic setting of Carroll’s thought provoking and entertaining novel.

Thank you, Ledicia!

If you want to read about Anastasia’s hometown, one of the most impressive cities in the world, visit our section, EXPLORING PLACES.

Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

2016 World Book Day marks the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare's death (April, 23rd, 1616). This is way our second contribution to our school's Third Book Festival is a postcard featuring some of the best-known scenes of Romeo and Juliet in alphabetical order.

Romeo and Juliet's A to Z by ESO 4 students. Collage by Eva Pousa

ESO 4 students' selection provides a glimpse of the greatness of one of Shakespeare's best known tragedies, Romeo and Juliet's doomed love.

                         William Shakespeare. Wikipedia                          Brown's Romeo and Juliet. Wikipedia

Watch this video to see in detail what aspect of the play each letter refers to:

Thank you guys for this amazing card! It will be mailed soon!

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: ABC

Our Annual Book Festival starts today and runs until Saturday 23^rd with a programme full of inspiring and exciting activities!

As noted in a previous post, our contribution to the Book Festival consists in creating, writing and sending postcards that feature any aspect related to any literary title/author or to anything related to the pleasure of reading as a whole. The first postcard we’ve chosen to write is a wonderful collage of various illustrations by ESO 3 students put together by English teacher Eva Pousa: Alice’s ABC.

As you can see, Alice’s ABC shows in alphabetical order key elements of one of our favourite books of all time, Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) whose 150^th anniversary was celebrated last November.

All the twenty-six illustrations are now on display at the school’s lobby ready for the inauguration of the Third Book Festival.

If you want to read how the first day of the festival has been celebrated, click HERE.
More literary postcards are being prepared, stay tuned!