ĦOLM TAL-MILIED?

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Tgħid il-Milied x'kellu merfugħ għal Leli... jiem ta' ferħ jew aktar diżgrazzji, kif kienet dejjem tgħid in-nanna?

Il-wiċċ tax-xwejjaħ li Leli ra fil-mera tat-twaletta, il-pasturi li sejħu lil Liża, il-marda ta' Betti, il-ferħ tax-xiħ u x-xiħa, id-daqq taż-żaqq u l-qbiż ta' Nenu l-Grawwa... kollox jingħaqad fi sħab ta' ħolm stramb. Imma tgħid... ħolm jew mhux ħolm?

Kif tista’ tużah fil-Klassi

Publisher : Pubblikazzjoni Bugelli
Sena : 1987

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Tuesday, April 28th, 2009 | Posted in Fantasija | 9 Comments »

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  1. Michele Scicluna
    12:19 pmon May 14th, 2009

    Hemm xi ktieb tan-noti fuq dan il-ktieb – fuq xi karattri jew xi “summaries” fuq kull kapitlu, ghax it-tifla qed tistudja dwaru l-iskola? Grazzi

  2. Trevor
    9:28 pmon May 14th, 2009

    Grazzi Michele, tal-kumment tiegħek. Sa fejn naf jien, ma ħareġ l-ebda ktieb formali ta’ notamenti kif semmejt inti, però naf li xi skejjel ħadmu n-noti tagħhom għall-istudenti.

  3. Kevin Vella
    4:20 pmon November 30th, 2009

    Ghaziz Trevor, nixtieq nghaddi kumment zghir….dan il-ktieb, Holm tal-Milied?, huwa bla dubju l-isbah ktieb bl-isbah storja li qatt qrajt….ovvjament ghandek hafna u hafna xoghlijiet ohra sbieh immens….imma kif sahharni dal-ktieb fi zmien l-iskola ma ninsieh qatt! U issa li ghandi 31 sena, xtaqt nghaddi dawk is-sensazzjonijiet lil uliedi billi naqralhom il-ktieb, bicca bicca…..ghidtilhom ha naqralkom storja li kont qrajt meta kont zghir, mill-isbah. Ftit kienu entuzjazti ghall-bidu, pero malli bdejt naqrah…..issahhru bhali….spiccaw ma riduniex nieqaf kull darba…jitolbuni biex inkompli bicca ohra u ohra…..L-istorja hija fantastika….u kieku dan il-ktieb xi hadd kellu jaghmlu film, ikun l-ahjar film tal-Milied ghall-familja kollha. Prosit kbira minn qalbi, nittama li xi darba niltaqghu mieghek u forsi tiffirma l-ktieb lit-tfal, ghax veru xtaqu! Grazzi

  4. Trevor
    4:29 amon December 9th, 2009

    Għażiż Kevin,
    L-ewwel nett grazzi minn qalbi tal-kumment ġentili tiegħek u skużani li ma weġibtekx qabel. “Ħolm tal-Milied” huwa ktieb għal qalbi ħafna għax ġo fih ippruvajt indaħħal dak kollu li jfisser għalija l-Milied: spirtu ta’ għaqda u mħabba fis-sempliċita u l-faqar. Kien ktieb li kien ilu snin twal idur ġo moħħi. Imma mbagħad il-ħajja taf tkun iromnika tassew. Sentejn wara li ktibtu, mietet il-mara tiegħi (meta kellha biss 38 sena) , li mietet preċiżement kif kont iddeskrivejt il-mewt tax-Xiħa fil-ktieb… mietet ġimgħa qabel il-Milied fi sptar kollu tiżjin u għana tal-Milied. Fis-17 ta’ Diċ li ġej tagħlaq 20 sena mejta. Min kellu jgħidli li dak li semmejt fil-ktieb kont se ngħaddi minnu jiena stess. U l-istess bħan-nanna Franġiska, il-Milied (li tant kont inħobbu) ġabli ħafna swied ta’ qalb. Kien hemm żmien meta kont kważi bdejt nobogħdu … imma ma stajt qatt inwarrab minn qalbi żmien hekk sabiħ. Illum għadda ż-żmien u l-ferita fieqet xi ftit.
    Grazzi Kevin tas-sapport tiegħek u nieħu gost jekk xi darba niltaqgħu u niffirmahulek. Minn qalbi nixtieq lilek u lill-familja kollha Milied mimli ferħ, paċi u saħħa.
    Trevor

  5. Tamara Palazzo
    3:41 pmon January 2nd, 2010

    Dear Trevor Zahra,
    I’m Tamara, I’m 13 years old and I’m talking in english because I’m an italian girl and i don’t talk maltese language but i can understand it. I came here in Malta in the year 2008 and I’m really happy to live here… First of all i would like to tell you that ”Holm tal-Milied?” is a really nice, fantastic and entusiastic book… i read it with my mum and we were really intrested to read it….My mum read this book in two days and I’m taking a little bit of time to read it because I’m reading it alone… I would like to meet you somewhere so that you could sign my book… my teacher would be very happy… every time we read this book at school the teacher always stops in a point and starts talking about how you wrote this fantastic book… what emotions you put in it and how did you felt when you were writing it… Sometimes when i read the book i immagine that you are here near me reading me the book… I’m really happy that i found this site and sending you this email… hope sometimes we meet and you sign my book…but can i ask you one last thing just curuosity… where do you live???… there is no need to tell me the street and all other things… just tell me where do you live ex. birkirkara, Valletta…. Whishing you a Happy new Year…
    Thank You… GRAZZI HAFNA….:-):-):-)

  6. Tamara Palazzo
    5:32 amon January 3rd, 2010

    Dear Trevor Zahra,
    I’m really happy that you answerd my letter…when i read it my mum was shouting even more than me… Even i live at Marsascala and for me is a really nice place… I go to St. Francis School Sliema… Sometimes some authors come to our school and explain the book that they wrote and where they got the ideas… i hope somtimes you come at our school and tells us mora about ”Holm Tal-Milied?”… Now one day i’ll try to leave the book at merlin library so you can sign it… but it you be nicer if i could meet you somewhere and you sign it in ”live”… but that’s not a problem… can i ask you one last thing?… when you were writing the book how did you felt?… Thank you a lot…:-):-):-):-)

  7. Tamara Palazzo
    4:26 amon January 5th, 2010

    Dear Trevor Zahra,
    I’m really sorry if i didn’t answer you before… In these days i need to concentrate on my studies because my school is soon going to start and even the exams… Hope one day i’ll meet you… If you would like to contact me this is my home number 21632422… I don’t know if you now where it is but i live at ” Lensdowne ” Triq San Frangisk Marsascala… Is near to Saint Thomas Bay… I would really like to see you some day…
    Thanks a lot………:-):-):-) Tamara Send Back….

  8. shania zammit
    2:46 pmon February 26th, 2010

    Dear Trevor Zahra,
    my name is shania and im only 12 years old i go to maria assumpta school. HOLM TAL-MILIED is very nice book but i dont now why i could not understant it.I am not a big fan of reading book but HOLM TAL MILED is gret i read it with my teacher she always stop and tell us what was your feeling about when you rote it and i dont now how to read in maltese very much i prefer english at school i made a biogrefery on you and the techer is correcrting it .You are very good in writing
    Thanks alot for making those books so we could learn on them and pls write soon and im going to be exideit to tell my my friends that i spoke you on computer and if you came to our school pls came in 2.4 class and ask for me i will be really happy that you light my face thanks alot ……….from shania zammit Qormi san bastjan

  9. Trevor
    12:31 amon February 28th, 2010

    Hello Shania,
    Grazzi tal-ittra tieghek u qed niehu gost li qed taghmel hiltek biex titghallem aktar taqra bil-Malti. L-ghalliema tieghek zgur li tghinek jekk ikun hemm xi partijiet fil-ktieb HOLM TAL-MILIED li forsi ma tifhimhomx mill-ewwel. Kompli aqra, Shania, kemm bil-Malti kif ukoll bl-Ingliz. Dawn huma zewg ligwi li ghalina huma t-tnejn importanti ndaqs.
    Sellili ghal shabek u ghall-familja kollha.
    Trevor

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