FEATURED AUTHOR - Art Blegen is the author of “The Adventures of Kris”, a series of early middle-grade chapter books for young readers from six to ten years old. Each child is important, and each family matters to Art. He is an advocate for educating children and their parents to ensure they have a healthy balance of positive examples in their lives. Wholesome stories and a healthy imagination can lay the foundation they will use for the rest of their lives. Whether playing with his grandchildren or coaching…
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As is frequently the case when Hollywood makes films based on a book, the book is very different than any of the Zorro movies I have seen. It’s a far more interesting read than the movies and keeps you in suspense until the very end.
There were a few things that may have some readers scratching their heads:
1. McCulley used several Spanish words in the text. A few that I remember are: Fray is an abbreviation of fraile (monk or brother in a monastic order); frailes (plural of fraile); carcel is jail; carreta is cart.
2. There are numerous words and punctuation marks in the text that don’t make sense in the context. These are either type setting errors in the original or errors introduced by the software which scanned the original to make the eBook. I have seen this in my own documents when transcribed by software. For example, where I wrote “modern”, the software thought it was “modem”.
Some malapropisms that I remember are: bunked instead of blinked, hie and die for the. When you encounter an English word that seem odd or out of place, just use your imagination and think what it might have been.