Episode 422: Horeta and The Waka

Wyatt and Jacob are both year 6 in room 17 review a beautiful story "Horeta and The Waka" By Gordon Campbell, illustrated by Zak Waipara.

"Based on the true story of a Maori tribe's first meeting with Captain James Cook and his crew, as seen through the eyes of the boy Te Horeta."




Horeta is the first to see a very large waka (sailing ship) heading for their land. The 'Strange men' bring many new  pieces of equipment and a completely different variety of food, such as rifles,nails and beef jerky!

























Check out this awesome podcast by Wyatt and Jacob, as they talk about this great book!

KPE Episode 421: The Working Holiday

In this episode Cheyanne and Doris from room 17 review The Working Holiday by Dot Meharry.

Mitch,Emma and Jack are off to their grandparents farm for the holidays. Unfortunately it's not what they expected, they have to go to bed early and wake up even earlier everyday! Which is not what they want to be doing on their holidays. On the upside they wake up to a beautifully cooked breakfast. After a while they got use to the routine and started to enjoy themselves. 

Take a listen to this fabulous podcast on an awesome play, by Cheyanne and Doris

KPE Episode 420: The Twits

In this episode Gloria and Tyla-Marie are both year 6 from room 17 have been talking about "The Twits" by Roald Dahl and illustrated by Quentin Blake

In a big windowless house lives two awful characters Mr and Mrs Twit. Mr Twit has a hideous beard that he never brushes and Mrs Twit has a scary looking glass eye.
They are very cruel towards animals especially birds, luring them to make bird pie. 
They also enjoy harassing their pet monkeys, Muggle-wump and his family.
But when your as mean as Mr and Mrs Twit something will always come back to bite you...

The Twits is another great book written by Roald Dahl that Tyla and Gloria have done an excellent review on, take a listen!

KPE Episode 419: Going Bananas

In this episode Howard and Antonio from Room 17 review Going Bananas by Bill Nagelkerke.                                                                                    
                                                                                                   

Reuben isn't the biggest fan of his little brother Matt, in fact he finds him really annoying and feels that he ruins everything.

Their father suggests that they go to the mall to buy some bananas. Reuben's father is trusting him to look after his younger brother but as soon as he gets the chance, Reuben ditches Matt and tells him to get lost.

Matt suddenly goes missing in the mall and he is no where to be found!

Will Reuben find his little brother...

                                               Check out this awesome podcast that 
                                        Howard and Antonio have done on a great book.

KPE Episode 418: EJ12 In the dark

Ashleigh and Jarna are both in Year 8 at Pt England School and they are in Room 20.  They have been reading "EJ12 In the dark by Susannah McFarlane, which is one of the books from a great series.










Shine's Solar energy system has become under threat from an evil agency called Shadow.
 In order for Shadow to be stopped special agent EJ12 must overcome her fears and must decipher Shadows code otherwise they will turn out the lights on Shine's network, and the Shine network will come to an end... 

Take a listen to this awesome podcast, we know that you will thoroughly enjoy listening to Ashleigh & Jarna giving a great review on the novel.

KPE Episode 417: Red Pizzas for a Blue Count

Joshua and Matthew review "Red Pizzas for a Blue Count" by Geronimo Stilton....

Who Is Geronimo Stilton?

That's me! I run a newspaper, but my true passion is writing tales of adventure. Here on Mouse Island, my books are all best-sellers! What's that? You've never read one? Well, my books are full of fun. They are whisker-licking good stories, and that's a promise!

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RED PIZZAS FOR A BLUE COUNT

When Trap got mouse-napped in Transratania, it was up to Thea and me to rescue him. Little did I know that Transratania is the land of vampire mice! Oh, would I ever make it back to my nice, safe mousehole alive?

We know that you will enjoy these Year 8 boys from Room 21 discussing this book.

KPE Episode 416: Is there life after Television?

In this episode of KPE Awhina and Mele from Room 20 review "Is there life after Television" by Pamela Rushton. 

Joel and Tanya know Mum wouldn't really get rid of the television. Even though their school reports haven't been the best.

They only watch movies and the footy, and Disney, and Neighbours, and Heartbreak High, and Bananas in Pyjamas and, and, and.....

Take a listen to this podcast and tell us in the comments how YOUR parents feel about your television viewing.  You may have something in common with Joel and Tanya!

KPE Episode 415: "The Secrets Of Droon, Journey to the Volcano Palace"

Kayde and Matthew are both in Year 8 at Pt England School and they are in Room 20.  They have been reading "The Secrets Of Droon, Journey to the Volcano Palace" by Tony Abbott.

Eric, Julie and Neal have a problem. The nasty Lord Sparr has stolen a magic jewel from their friend Princess Keeah. The Princess really needs their help. The good news is that the jewel is in Lord Sparr's secret palace. The bad news is that the secret palace is in a volcano!

These two boys spin a great yarn in this podcast, starting with....

Kayde: Matthew, contemplate this. Imagine if there was a basement in your house.

Matthew: Yeah.

Kayde: And you walked down some stairs where you were suddenly teleported to another world. What do you think that world would be called? Matthew: I don’t know Kayde!

Kayde: Well when that happens in this book they end up in a world called Droon.

KPE Episode 414: "Boy vs Beast : Book4"

This latest episode of KPE has been created by two Year 8 boys from Room 20.  Kayde has been reading "Boy vs Beast : Battle of the Worlds - Book4" by  Mac Park and Cruz interviews him about the book.
The main character is a 12 year old boy called Kai Masters and and he lives in a world surrounded by monster-like beasts. A wall surrounds the humans protecting them from the beasts and Kai is one of the security guards on the wall.


"Only a wall lies between the Beasts of Beastium and Earth -and Kai Masters, border guard. When a freaky red tornado hits, Kai knows it's time for battle. Kai chooses his Astro-Jet Striker to battle the wind beast. Can it win over a wind attack?"

Check out this awesome website designed to support the books?

KPE Episode 413: True Mystery Stories

Room 20 have kicked off the year for KPE with two of the Year 8 students creating a podcast of "True Mystery Stories" by Terry Deary. What makes people want to solve a mystery?  Cruz and Matthew R discuss this book which has seven short stories.


There are some things that can never be explained. Find out: how one woman checked into a Parisian hotel - and then disappeared?, why a flight never returned, with no sign of wreckage or survivors? & if the ghosts of Borley rectory can ever rest in peace? You will uncover some mysterious events from real life and decide what you think really happened.
Check out some of Cruz and Matthew's work from when they were much younger :)