An eye-catching book cover, an amazing blurb! What else can a book have? Starting from today I've been reading a book called The Treasure House, By Linda Newbery. This book shows a great deal of creativity and imagery, the cover itself will blow you away! Reading the first chapter of the book, took me to another world where "slopes patched tawny-green in the afternoon sunlight, and the stone buildings of Crowndenbridge huddled in the valley" (pg 1) This is one of many quotes that will draw you into the constructed world of the text. Now you're probably wondering why the title of this blog is called The Elephant Bag? The story sets out with a girl named Nina attending "big school" for the first time but she hasn't heard from her mother for a while. No "Good Luck" or "Try your best". Linda describes the depatured students from the bus entering the school as "their Tiptonstall uniform a stream of grey and red that broke into fragments as they went their different ways" (pg 3) This is an example of Personification, she has cleverly used this to describe the bunched up students making their own way to the different school entrances. Getting to the end of the day was her only aim. 
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