BR 2-08: The Genie in the Bottle

“Suddenly, smoke poured out. The smoke turned into a huge face.”(Dickins, 2009, p.12).

The Genie in the Bottle

I rented this book, because I like Arabian story. I thought that this story is similar to “Aladdin”, so I rented this book. However this book is totally different to story of Arabian Nights. I was disappointed by the thing, and this book is not interest. I can't understand a content of this book. It is easy book, but you won't enjoy to read.

This story is about a fisherman, a cat, a bottle, and a big bad genie. The fisherman always do fishing with a cat, but he can't get delicious fishes. He can get something what he don't need every time, for example, slimy seaweed, shiny shells, smelly fishes. They are not good, so he threw them.

However he caught something else one day. It is a bottle, and a big bad genie in the bottle. He met a big bad genie, and then the genie try to eat a fisherman. The genie have stayed in the bottle for long long time, so he was so hungry. A fisherman and cat are perplexed very much, and a fisherman think about what I do for genie back into a bottle. How they doing?

I thought this book is easy, so I recommend this book. However this book's content is difficult to understand. I can't understand a content of this book. Please try to read carefully more and more. This book comes from very old collection of stories known as “The Arabian Nights”. People say the stories were invented to entertain the King of Persia, by his clever and beautiful wife.

This book is Usborne first reading series, so it is easy to read. This book has about 30 pages, so maybe you can read it quickly. And almost sentences are easy, you will not have unknown words in this book. This book written by Rosie Dickins, and illustrated by Sara Rojo. Please try to read the book once.

Reference

Dickins, Rosie. (2009). The Genie in the Bottle. London, England: Usborne.

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