可唔可以幫我做2個book report(英文)

The Magic Flute
by Anne Gatti; pictures by Peter Malone, 1997.

According to the Library of Congress catalog record, it "retells the story of the Mozart opera in which the noble Prince Tamino seeks the fair Pamina against a backdrop of the battle between darkness and light."

A very pretty little book - like an upscale Golden Book - it's quite faithful to the libretto. One funny little alteration is that rough guy Monostatos is depicted as white. The reasons for such a change are obvious, but it forces the elimination of a couple of scenes, one comical and one touching.

When bird-catcher Papageno, covered in feathers, first meets blackamoor Monostatos, each one has never before seen anyone so terrifying. They sing simultaneously, "Oo! That is surely the devil! That is surely the devil! Have pity! Spare me! Oo! Oo! Oo!"

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Black Holes: Gravity's Relentless Pull
Space Telescope Science Institute
Baltimore, MD

Black holes are places where ordinary gravity has become so extreme that it overwhelms all other forces in the Universe. Once inside, nothing can escape a black hole's gravity -- not even light. Yet we know that black holes exist. We know how they are born, where they occur, and why they exist in different sizes. We even know what would happen if you fell into one. Our discoveries have revealed one of the strangest objects in the Universe, and there's still much we don't know. The nearest black hole is many lightyears away, so we don't have to worry about threats to the Earth. This is as close as you'll ever get to one. So come explore!