Wonderful world of books

We are living in a planet of “wonderful world of books” because books can take you anywhere to the moon, stars, America, India and the most unimaginable places. The minute you take a book, you will find yourself sinking in deep with the story and characters. You will not know what is happening around you but only what is happening in your book. Books are your best friends if you are there’s, if you treat it carefully it will only be the best for you. If you don’t, you are in loss.

If you don’t like books, then, you don’t know what you are missing. It is more like you are falling in a deep hole but if you love books you are in luck, you will experience the joy for a life time.

We who love books just take the books for granted but many book lovers don’t even realize the hardship of an author. Some famous book authors are Enid Blyton, Jane Austin, Ruskin Bond, R.L Stine, J.K Rowling etc. Many of us don’t even realize how much pain they go through to read, write, rewrite, find a publisher and most importantly listen to people who criticise him/her. That is why it is important to know what they go through and to try not to criticise them. Many authors are inspired by the simplest things such as J.K Rowling first thought about king cross station when she was in a railway station near king cross lane. (From the harry potter books) 

There are many children who wish to become an author but it is not a very easy job. You should have creativity, interest, comedy, knowledge and to make your readers curious about what happens next in page, chapter or next book, then only you can be a successful author. Reading books not only gives creative ideas but knowledge too. It helps in learning grammar, spelling etc. Books can take us to many places, so try and try again, until you succeed in your dream. So, in short, we should cultivate the habit of reading. Until you try it, you will not know the joy of reading. So remember, you have to go to the book because the book cannot come to you. Happy reading!

Nidhi Snowflake

                                                                                               

The Great Martians Attack

THE GREAT  MARTIANS  ATTACK

CHAPTER – 1

Today is 23/12/2016. I am in Chicago, where a terrible blizzard is going on and it is 6:00 am and I am outside in the cold for about 15 minutes but it feels like a year or 10 years. But I have to be strong no matter what happens as I have to reach the airport by 8:30 am as my plane leaves at 10:00 am to India. My boss Jayson Rob was supposed to pick me up by now but he is caught in the storm and is now running late. 

But suddenly, I saw bright red lights and loud noises for a minute, I thought it was my boss waiting for me. Loud noise and my boss..Oh how silly of me! I forgot to tell you my name. Oh.. who cares, by the way I am Mark Clark, the famous news reporter from CNBC news channel. I am one  out of 40 reporters from CNBC news channel & I am going to interview PM Narendra Modi on a very important issue between USA and India. I know what you are thinking about what an honor it is to meet him. Right, Aha, I was just teasing you don’t take it to your heart. Anyway I am just a little nervous that I won’t do well then USA and India might battle and become sworn enemies because of me.That would be a disaster and I would be fired from my job and worst of all I would have let USA down.

And there I am again worrying what would happen. But I was never under so much pressure. Achoo achoo. take a deep breaths Mark I said to myself finally I pulled myself together. But then, I realized I was not alone, started running as far as my scared legs could take me but it caught me & I was sucked up before I could scream for help or react and I fainted in shock.When I woke up I thought it was all a bad dream but in a few minutes, I realized that this was not my bed, not my room, not my house and definitely not my wife and children, all I saw was a human being with 10 heads, 8 arms and a tentacle as a nose. Then,I realized who they really were they were aliens or as they called themselves Martians.

I was suddenly speechless and I knew that I was shivering with excitement and also I was scared because for once I just could not speak and that means a lot because I am normally very talkative. Suddenly, without a warning the leader caught hold of me and was about to dash me to the ground but before they could I shouted stop! Please stop, I begged. They let go of me and asked who are you? and why are you here so early in the morning? Their breath smelled horrible and I said I am Mark Clark number-1 reporter from CNBC news and I was waiting for my boss Jayson Rob to pick me up. They all laughed and then the ring leader told this is a nice excuse. Agent double x, what’s next you’ll say that you need to pick up your granny. Ha Ha Ha that’s not funny. Well, it is funny you’re just trying to protect and hide your secret identity of working for Whoop. Whoop! What in the world is that? Stop the acting Agent Double x. I am not acting you buffoon and untie me right now you have got the wrong person so let me go. Oh you are not going anywhere and if you don’t believe me you can ask your father.

My father? he died a year back no he didn’t he was kidnapped by me he too was a secret agent you know he kept it a secret all his life. No way, dad always told me all his secrets when I was a kid. Ha ha ha.. you were such a fool to believe him. I was not and anyway what did my father ever do to you a lot of things but that is for me to know and you to find out .Ha ha ha now enough chit chat through him into the dungeons with his father mu ha ha ha. And so, I was forced into the dungeons. There I saw an old but healthy and strong man. In seconds I realized that it was my father and hugged him but my father did not recognize me and pushed me away but I said dad don’t you recognize me? Yay you look a lot like my beloved son Mark Clark. Well, It's me. No way. How could you ever doubt me? Well who won’t? These Martians as they call themselves can change into anything I can’t be duped by you I am tired of that. Well, how do I prove to you that I am who I am and nobody else? Um.. I know and I found myself singing a song that my father used to sing to me when I was little and then suddenly I found myself In a large bear hug and my father said Mark.. Mark.. is that really you? after all this time I missed you a lot. So did me and mother. We thought you were dead. Well, I am not, so we are back together again. So now all we have to do is escape, but how do we escape?

What! You were not sent here to rescue me? No way, I came here by accident and you mean Agent Jason Robb didn’t train you? What are you talking about and how did you know my new boss? And please tell me truthfully this time were you a spy all this time. Yes, I was supposed to tell you only when you were older as I was hoping you would understand and try to be a super spy yourself. Well, I don’t know if it means you’ll retire. May be, but it sounds very dangerous like just look at the mess it brought us into. I know and I am sorry but I will not retire and being a spy has its bad parts too, you know. Just like, I used to tell you everything has its good parts and bad parts. Well fine but now what do we do? I am not trained to be a spy and I do not have what you call “gadgets”. Mmmmmm.. I know I’ll call for help with my phone. Sorry kiddo. there is no telephone cables on mars. Mars! Oh didn’t I tell you we are on the planet mars?  Mmmmmm I have another idea. My progress report cam is our ticket to communication. What’s that? It is a gadget that I used in my job to contact my boss Jayson Robb. It will work whenever and wherever I am. Cool yo! I know boss makes the best gadgets it’s really high-tech as I always tell him he really should become an inventor. I know he was my spy partner he is smart, intelligent and very funny. You are so right. Now start that what you call progress cam let’s get this show on the road. Ha ha all right tring tring tring tring he’s not answering.. I can’t believe this as he always answers.

Forget it kiddo, we have to get out of here and I’m sick of this silly place. By the way, how long have you been on this planet? Oh, not very long they just transferred me here a few weeks ago otherwise I would have escaped by now. Then, where were you all this time? Oh, travelling from one area to another and it’s like they are passing me along to one another so they are not suspected. So, I have been on earth all this time in torcher. I was their servant. Really, it was a nightmare but the most scary thing of all was leaving you and mom. Speaking about mom she must be worrying sick about us. You mean you. Me! You all thought I was dead remember? I’m not living with you anymore. OH yeah you’re so right. So what do we do now? What is it? Well your mom also works for WOOPH she too is a WOOPH spy.

Stay tuned and see how they escape the martians!