Group book reviews ( Hyodo, Saito, Yasaki, Takanaga)

 

Atama-ii Books series explanation and book

  reviews

　Authors of this paper

• Hidetaka Hyodo (1st, Engineering)
• Hiroaki Saito (2nd, Science)
• Nanako Takanaga (1st, Medicine)
• Chisato Yasaki (2nd, Law)

1. About Atama-ii Books series

Difficulty: 300 headwords

Length: 2,500 words total

Pages: 23 text/23 illustrations (8/8 per story thread, 8 endings total)

Atama-ii is a series of beginner level easy-English graded readers.

(illustrators) Alice Carroll

Hiroki Funayama

(publisher/series editor) Marcos Benevides

(authors) Andy Boon

James Broadbridge

Ramy Habeeb

Lesley Ito

Theresa Kannenberg

Kyle Maclauchlan

Paul Raine

Marcos Benevides

(audio director) Lesley Ito

2. Book reviews of Atama-ii Books series

• “Book review of Immortal Empire written by Hiroaki Saito”

This story is about an empire growing over time.

You will advise the kings and queens who rule it.

This book's story sounds interesting. You become a god then watch over the small town of Edin's history and speak to them in this town in your dreams.

You are god, so Edin's people follow your advice and create the empire for a long time.

At the beginning of time, Edin's population is a few people, but many years later, there are more people and they make the empire. The empire is growing bigger and bigger and

the empire various accidents happen.

You believe the choice-making aspect of reading this book is a best way to promote critical thinking, so the empire's destiny depends on your judgements!

• “Book review of JOURNEY TO MARS written by Hidetaka Hyodo”

JOURNEY TO MARS

I and two other astronauts were traveling in space. We entered the wormhole and lost consciousness.

Are they outside the spaceship? You grab a laser blaster and push toward the door. Outside, Buck's hands are around Maki's neck. He is trying to take off her helmet! "Stop! What are you doing?" you say. "Shoot him!" Maki shouts.

I wavered in my judgement because I didn't know whether or not he was sane. After that, I didn't shoot him because I didn't want to lose a valuable clue. Afterward, we encountered another trouble and escaped from the spaceship by using the escape pod, but he didn't ride on it. In the end, we arrived at a dangerous planet like Earth. I don't know whether my choice was right or wrong.

• “Book review of Hunter in the Darkness written by Nanako Takanaga”

You teach the villagers to fight.

"Guns can't hurt vampires,” you say. "But wood can kill them, if it strikes the heart. Fire also kills them."

"What about water?" a woman asks.

"Yes," you say.

I am a strong vampire hunter, but my master was killed by Aku. To kill him I was looking for him for three years. And finally I found...

In this series, the end of the story depends on your choices! That trick is very interesting, but cynical. To get the happy end, we have to use our brain hard.

In the middle age people really believe the vampires. However I don’t think vampires exist in real life. Do you believe in the existence of the supernatural creatures?

• “Book review of The Ooze written by Chisato Yasaki”

This ooze, it's... it's alive!

Ooze is a slimy substance that is between a liquid and a solid. YOU, a college student, found it while you were cleaning your bathroom. This is the start.

This is an interactive story, so the end of the story is up to you. What will you do for the ooze?

I kept it with my roommate. I never attacked it, loving it. I trained it with love. As a result, the end of the story was a peaceful one.

When I was a senior high school student, there were plants in my class. Plants can't speak. However, my friend raised them. She watered and spoke to them every day. As a result, they became the biggest in our school. Love is important in order to have pets. The same is true for plants.

• Bibliography

Benevides, M. (2015). Immortal Empire. Florida and Tokyo: Atama-ii Books.

Habeeb, R. (2014). Hunter in the Darkness. Florida and Tokyo: Atama-ii Books.

MacLauchlan, K. (2015). The Ooze. Florida and Tokyo: Atama-ii Books.

Raine, P. (2014). Journey to Mars. Florida and Tokyo: Atama-ii Books.

This is the collaborative written work.