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Book Club

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BOOK CLUB

BREAKFAST BOOK CLUB

If you are looking to nurture a love of books and reading with your child, then our Breakfast book club is for you.   As a group we choose a book to share with our children at home and then do a fun art/craft/creative activity related to the book to share at Book Club. We meet twice a term (once in Terms 1 & 4) on an agreed Friday morning from 7.45-8.30a.m. Each family brings a small plate of food to share, Simone supplies breakfast juice and we have a wonderful time sharing our responses to books.  Our club has been a huge success and we have all loved it.  If you’d like to join us this year, please email Simone (simone.petherick915@schools.sa.edu.au), comment on this post or pop into the library, we’d love to have you in our club.

Happy reading!

Simone

Book Week shortlist highlights

Nomination – Picture book of the year


Mechanica by Lance Balchin is a stunning visual feast that brings an original idea to life.  Mechanica is set in future earth where the environment is polluted and wildlife is extinct… this gives rise to a new style of ‘wildlife’ which will not be controlled by human kind…

The book is a field guide to a range of species and is both entertaining and provocative at once.  Have you read this book yet?  Will it have your vote for Picture Book of the Year?

Mechanica Book Trailer

Nomination – Book of the year, younger readers

I loved this book about Jimmy Cook, a third grade kid, majorly obsessed with Captain James Cook.  When he learns from his mother (how annoying that she was right!) that Captain Cook was killed in Hawaii he concocts a madcap plan to get to Hawaii and finish the discoveries Captain Cook began.  This is a fun read with great characters, that kids of all ages will enjoy…  But will it take out the prize?

Jimmy Cook book trailer

Eve Pownall Award for Information Book  nomination – “A-Z of Endangered Animals”

This is a beautiful book and children will love reading the quirky facts for every animal whilst learning about their conservation status.

Watch a talk with the author here Jennifer Cossins talks about A-Z

What do you think? I love it!

Great new releases!

Double Down

Diary of a Wimpy Kid is immensely popular among our readers and they’ll be cheering to know the next instalment is hitting bookshops this week and our shelves next week.  If you can’t wait to read it, here’s a little Book Trailer preview for you!

Double Down Trailer

Our readers will also be excited to see Aaron Blabley’s The Good Guys episode 4 hit our shelves this week.  I love this humourous graphic novel series and so do our kids.  This is GREAT FUN to read aloud, so if you see it in your child’s bag don’t miss an opportunity to read it!

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Breakfast Book Club meets this Friday at 7.45 in the library to share our thoughts on Enid Blyton’s Magic Faraway Tree.  If you haven’t joined our book club yet, it’s not too late – we’d love to have you join us.  Email Simone, comment on the blog or pop into the library if you’re interested.

Happy reading!

Simone

Roald Dahl Competition

Roald Dahl birthday quiz - how well do you know your Dahl? Quentin Blake

 

Roald Dahl would have turned 100 this year had he been alive today, and many publishers are celebrating his magical legacy with some fantastic competitions.

Oxford University Press is launching a wonderful Roald Dahl dictionary, and are offering you a chance to win your very own copy.  All you have to do to win is write your won Roald Dahl inspired word and illustrate what it means.  The competition is open to all Primary School children and closes on 31st August 2016.  If you’d like to enter , download the form RoaldDahlCompetitionEntry.

In other news, Book Week is scheduled for Week 5 next term and I’m excited!  I’m already planning my costume and hope that you’re starting to get excited too.  Sue Woollard has contacted me to advise that the Save the Children store on Goodwood Road have STACKS of dress up costumes (many donated by Sue herself) that are now available.  Get in early and get organised for our biggest celebration of books this year.

Highlighted Book:  Mrs Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ranson Riggs.

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This is an eerie and absorbing tale about Jacob Magellan Portman .  As a child he was fascinated by his Grandfather’s stories and haunting pictures of a mysterious island inhabited by peculiar children, who he claimed were hiding from the ‘monsters’.  Jacob always doubted the truth of his Grandfather’s tales, but when he dies a bizarre death he urges Jacob to flee to the island… Could the stories be real, and could the children really be alive, and what are the secrets held by the island?  This is a fabulous, suspenseful read, recommended for our Year 6/7 students.  Read the book before the movie comes out in September, you won’t be disappointed.

For the book trailer  Watch here and the movie trailer watch here

Happy Reading!

Simone

 

 

 

 

 

 

New graphic novel series to hit our shelves

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Graphic novels are becoming hugely popular in our library and I’m working very hard to develop this part of the collection.

The “Bone” series by Jeff Smith has been heralded as THE BEST graphic novel series (ever!) by some critics.  I’ve had the pleasure of introducing it at a couple of libraries and kids from Year 4 upward have LOVED it.

This series is filled with great characters, action-packed adventure, mystery, suspense, love and of course a little sprinkle of magic.  I’m very happy to say these books will hit our shelves in Week 9!  I’m excited, are you?

Watch the following YouTube clip to get a ‘feel’ for the series…

Bone Animation

 

 

New cricket series hits our shelves

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The cricket Australia websites describes these fantastic new books as “…  a series of books for boys and girls aged 8-12 who love cricket. Fun, funny and fully illustrated, these books will fire the imagination of every cricket-loving kid around Australia, mapping the cricket journeys of their favourite players from dreamy kids to international cricket stars.

Written by popular children’s author Phil Kettle, the I Can Be … series involves eight books, each featuring a different Australian cricket stars: Mitch Marsh, Ellyse Perry, Fawad Ahmed, Meg Lanning, Ian Healy, Holly Ferling, Greg Chappell and Belinda Clark. The series teaches and inspires kids to get out there and play cricket.”

Available for borrowing next week, these are going to be popular!

Fantastic new series for younger readers

I have just finished reading “Squishy Taylor and the bonus sisters” with my six year old daughter and we LOVED it! It’s a fantastic story about a little girl living in a blended family. Squishy finds a runaway living in the storeroom of her apartment’s basement and the mystery and adventure begins… As Molly Meldrum would say, do yourself a favour and share this story with your children. I’d recommend it for readers up to Year five. Watch the book trailer to get a taste of this fun new series. Squishy Taylor trailer20160221-094705.jpg

Highlighted Book

Book with no pictures

If you haven’t read this with your child yet, then you’re missing out!  This is a fabulous, laugh out loud, rollicking fun read that children from Reception to Year 4 will enjoy.  Read it loud, and in your silliest voice, and your child will enjoy hearing it almost as much as you love reading it.