The Library is open to students Wednesday and Thursday mornings. Students are asked to arrive between at 8:30 and 8:40 only and are expected to work quietly. This is a great time to finish homework, read or have a look at our collection of pop-up books.
T H I S W E E K
This week the focus is on poetry. Students are invited to browse through our collection of poetry books. We will be studying the poems of Dennis Lee and Shel Silverstein.http://www.shelsilverstein.com/indexSite.html
B A C K F R O M T H E B R E A K C O N T E S T!!
Write the title of a book you read over the Spring Break along with your name and division. Pop your entry into the jar on the Library desk! Good Luck!
B O O K S T O M O V I E S
Rodrick Rules, the latest movie from the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, is in local theatres now. There are many wonderful books in our Library that have also been made into movies.
Did you know that the movie Shrek is based on the book by William Steig? He also wrote Sylvester and the Magic Pebble and The Amazing Bone. How to Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell, Guardians of Ga'Hoole by Katherine Lanky and Coraline by Neil Gaiman were all made into successful movies. Dr. Seuss's books-to-movies include How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Horton Hears a Who and Cat in the Hat. My son, Thompson's favourite books, A Series of Unfortunate Events, were made into a movie as well. He enjoyed the movie but thought that the books were better. I felt that way the first time I saw the movie, Gone with the Wind...
Many readers anxiously awaited the release of the Harry Potter movies and were not disappointed. However, some of the movies are rated PG-13 and are not suitable for young children. It is important to note that just because of movie is based on a children's book doesn't mean that it is family friendly. Please take the time to check out the movies your child watches.
L I N D S A Y L I B R A R Y
I have always been an avid reader. I remember reading James and the Giant Peach with a flashlight under the covers when I was in grade four. I loved The Secret World of Og by Pierre Burton and all of the Anne of Green Gable books. I was also a fan of the Little House on the Prairie series.
I love to read and belong to two book clubs. My favourite books include Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, The Blue Castle by L. M. Montgomery and The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett.
I just finished The Book Thief by Markus Zusak which I would highly recommend for grade 9 and above. Zusak has created a work that deserves the attention of sophisticated teen and adult readers. Death himself narrates the World War II-era story of Liesel Meminger from the time she is taken, at age nine, to live in Molching, Germany, with a foster family in a working-class neighborhood of tough kids, acid-tongued mothers, and loving fathers who earn their living by the work of their hands. The child arrives having just stolen her first book–although she has not yet learned how to read–and her foster father uses it, The Gravediggers Handbook, to lull her to sleep when shes roused by regular nightmares about her younger brother's death. Across the ensuing years of the late 1930s and into the 1940s, Liesel collects more stolen books as well as a peculiar set of friends: the boy Rudy, the Jewish refugee Max, the mayors reclusive wife (who has a whole library from which she allows Liesel to steal), and especially her foster parents. .–Amazon.ca
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