Synopsis (from book cover):
The story of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is very difficult to describe. Usually we give some clues about the book on the jacket, but in this case we think that would spoil the reading of the book. We think it is important that you start to read without knowing what it is about.
If you do start to read this book, you will go on a journey with a nine-year-old boy called Bruno. (Though this isn’t a book for nine-year-olds.) And sooner or later you will arrive with Bruno at a fence.
Fences like this exist all over the world. We hope you never have to encounter such a fence.
Review:
Most people will already know about the book or the film but this book is best read without any prior knowledge of the content. The story is told through the eyes of the main character, Bruno a child aged nine. The innocence logical thoughts of a child stand out in comparison to the behaviours of adults.
A book that leaves you thinking and wondering why…
6 Comments CherryPie on Jun 5th 2014
It is my turn at Vision & Verb today. My post is about the Kazerne Dossin museum and military barracks which serve as a permanent history and memorial to the Jews who were held there awaiting deportation to Nazi concentration camps during WWII. I invite you to join me there.
More photos of the museum and barracks can be found in my Flickr set.
4 Comments CherryPie on Jun 4th 2014
These photographs were taken in the middle of March just after the severe flooding we had in the south of England.
6 Comments CherryPie on Jun 3rd 2014
On Sunday the 1st June the National Service (RAF) veterans annual parade took place at Cosford. One of the events billed was a fly past by the Battle of Britain Memorial Dakota (weather permitting). Sunday morning was glorious so we set off for Cosford in order to watch the display.
We stood on a grassy bank and, as luck would have it, one of the people nearby had a radio frequency scanner and was following the plane’s approach and from which direction it would be coming. After we had enjoyed the plane flying over and taken a photograph or two, a gentleman who was standing next to me turned round and said to another gentlemen, ‘Your lens is making me feel inadequate’ (it was a rather large zoom lens). A little bit of good humored lens envy going on 
12 Comments CherryPie on Jun 2nd 2014
A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.
Max Muller
17 Comments CherryPie on Jun 1st 2014
