Best Joke ever

Queen Elizabeth, Bush & Musharraf died & went straight to hell. Queen Elizabeth said “I miss England, I want to call England and see how everybody is doing there.

She called and talked for about 5 minutes, then she asked “Well,devil how much do I owe you????

The devil says “Five million dollars” ….

She wrote him a cheque and went to sit back on her chair.

Bush was so jealous, he starts screaming, “My turn! I wanna call the United States, I want to see how everybody is doing there too.”

He called and talked for about 2 minutes, then he asked “Well, devil how much do I owe you????

The devil says “Ten million dollars.” With a smug look on his face, he made a cheque and went to sit back on his chair.

Musharraf was even more jealous & starts screaming, “I want to call Pakistan too, I wanna talk to the ministers, to the deputy, I wanna talk to everybody of my Parliament”….. He called.

Pakistan and he talked for about twenty hours, he talked & talked & talked, then he asked “Well, devil how much do I owe you????

The devil says “Twenty dollars”.
Musharraf is stunned & says “Twenty dollars??? Only ??” What may be the reply from devil….

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The devil says “Well if you make a call from one hell to another hell, it’s local”

By: Rebecca, for http://www.19.5degs.com

Who is Rohini Chowdhury?

ROHINI CHOWDHURY was born in Kolkata and educated at Loreto House, Jadavpur University, and IIM, Ahmedabad. She has written several books for children.

There is a wonderful website http://www.longlongtimeago.com run by her, showcases fables, folktales, fairytales, and myths that kids and even adults can enjoy. Also features books by Rohini Chowdhury.

She now lives behind a keyboard in London, with her one husband, two daughters, a herb garden and no pets.

Who is Edith Nesbit?

Edith Nesbit (married name Edith Bland; 15 August 1858 – 4 May 1924) was an English author and poet whose children’s works were published under the androgynous name of E. Nesbit. She wrote or collaborated on over 60 books of fiction for children, several of which have been adapted for film and television. She was also a political activist and co-founded the Fabian Society, a precursor to the modern Labour Party.

She was born in 1858 at 38 Lower Kennington Lane in Kennington, Surrey (now part of Greater London), the daughter of an agricultural chemist, John Collis Nesbit, who died in March 1862, before her fourth birthday. Her sister Mary’s ill health meant that the family moved around constantly for some years, living variously in Brighton, Buckinghamshire, France (Dieppe, Rouen, Paris, Tours, Poitiers, Angouleme, Bordeaux, Arcachon, Pau, Bagneres de Bigorre, and Dinan in Brittany), Spain and Germany, before settling for three years at Halstead Hall in Halstead in north-west Kent, a location which later inspired The Railway Children (this distinction has also been claimed by the Derbyshire town of New Mills).

Edith Nesbit is best known for the stories and novels she wrote for children, and as the creator of the Bastable family. Her fantasy novels Five Children and It, The Phoenix and the Carpet, and The Story of the Amulet established a formula for fantasy writing for children that has been followed by children’s writers all over the world.

Edith Nesbit was the youngest of the four surviving children of John Collis Nesbit, an agricultural chemist of distinction and principal of an agricultural college in Kennington. Edith’s father died when she was three. Her mother ran the college herself for a short while, but, when Edith was nine, decided to move abroad for the health of Edith’s elder sister Mary. Edith and her siblings were thrown into a nomadic existence across France and Germany. Edith hated most of the school she went to, and even tried to run away from one in Germany.

The family came back to England, and when Edith was thirteen, settled into a large country house in Kent. Edith loved this house, and spent much of her time exploring the surroundings with her brothers Alfred and Harry. Edith drew on the house and its surroundings, as well as their way of life, in her books.

Edith married Hubert Bland in 1880. Soon after, Bland fell critically ill with smallpox, and at the same time suffered heavy business losses which left him penniless. Edith supported them through various ways, including selling poems and stories to newspapers. Bland collaborated on some of the stories, and ultimately became a distinguished journalist himself.

The Blands were Socialists, and founder-members of the Fabian Society. Their friends included George Bernard Shaw, another famous Fabian.

Edith’s lifestyle – her short hair, her all-wool clothing, her habit of smoking in public – all proclaimed her to be a woman who was seeking to break out of the mould that convention demanded at the time.

Her books for children, by ‘E. Nesbit’, almost happened on their own, when she was 40. (Her use of the plain initial ‘E’ led to her being mistaken for a man, which delighted her). Stories for children were among her magazine contributions, and in 1892, the firm of Raphael Tuck brought out her first complete book for children, The Voyage of Columbus, in verse. She followed this up by several short stories, collections and articles for magazines. And in 1898 she produced, for the Pall Mall and Windsor magazines, a series of stories about Oswald Bastable and his family. These were published as a book 1899, The Story of the Treasure Seekers, which was instantly successful.

This was followed by more successes – Five Children and It (1902), The Phoenix and the Carpet, The New Treasure Seekers, The Story of the Amulet, The Railway Children…

Hubert Bland died in 1914, and Edith felt her life cut off short by his death. She went through a period of loneliness, ill health and poverty, till 1917, when she married T.T. Tucker, a widowed marine engineer and an old friend. She enlisted him as collaborator for some of her short stories.

Edith died in 1924, at the age of 65.

Edith Nesbit had always dreamed of becoming a writer. She wrote prolifically throughout her life – articles, poems, and stories in a variety of genres. She found her true place in the genre of children’s writing, though she never gave this aspect of her writing the importance it deserved.

Who is David Almond?

David Almond (born May 15, 1951) is a British children’s writer who has penned several novels, each one to critical acclaim. He was born and raised in Felling and Newcastle in post-industrial North East England and educated at the University of East Anglia. He grew up in a big Catholic family, when he was young, he found his love of writing when some short stories of his were published in a local magazine. As a child, Almond loved playing football in the hills above the town and messing about with his grandfather in his allotment. He loved too the local library and dreamed of seeing his books on its shelves one day. He started out as an author of adult fiction before finding his niche writing literature for young adults.

His first children’s novel, Skellig (1998), set in Newcastle, won the Whitbread Children’s Novel of the Year Award and also the Carnegie Medal. His subsequent novels are: Kit’s Wilderness (1999), Heaven Eyes (2000), Secret Heart (2001), The Fire Eaters (2003) and Clay (2005). His first play aimed at adolescents, Wild Girl, Wild Boy, toured in 2001 and was published in 2002.

Later he took a degree in English and American literature. After working for a while as a postman, a hotel porter and a labourer, he trained to be a teacher. When his first short stories began to be published in magazines, he left his job and began writing full time. He was still not writing for children. When he ran short of money he worked at writing booklets for an adult literacy scheme, and went on to his final teaching job in a school for children with learning difficulties.

His works are highly philosophical and thus appeal to children and adults alike. Recurring themes throughout include the complex relationships between apparent opposites (such as life and death, reality and fiction, past and future); forms of education; growing up and adapting to change; the nature of ‘the self’. He has been greatly influenced by the works of the English Romantic poet William Blake.

He says:
“Skellig, my first children’s novel, came out of the blue, as if it had been waiting a long time to be told. It seemed to write itself. It took six months, was rapidly taken by Hodder Children’s Books and has changed my life. By the time Skellig came out, I’d written my next children’s novel, Kit’s Wilderness. These books are suffused with the landscape and spirit of my own childhood. By looking back into the past, by re-imagining it and blending it with what I see around me now, I found a way to move forward and to become something that I am intensely happy to be: a writer for children.”

Other children’s books by David Almond include Heaven Eyes, Counting Stars, Secret Heart, The Fire Eaters, Kate, the Cat and the Moon, and Clay.

He is an author often suggested on National Curriculum reading lists in the United Kingdom and has attracted the attention of academics who specialise in the study of children’s literature.

David Almond lives with his family in Northumberland, UK.