Meet our library monitors

We have more than eighty library monitors to help this term! That works out to around seven or eight a week. Lunch time is always a hive of busy activity, where you will find library monitors shelving books, tidying and dusting shelves, watering plants, returning and issuing books with a smile on their faces. On Fridays, a couple of monitors are given the exciting job of choosing new books from the cupboard for display.

Thank-you to all the monitors for doing a superb job of making the library a warm and welcoming place, where books are easy to find and where there is always someone available to sit in a cosy corner and read a story or help to find that extra special book for children big and not-so-big.

 

 

A warm Woodlands Park welcome!

Welcome to the new Woodlands Park School library blog! We want this to be a welcoming space where you can get sneak previews of new books, read book reviews written by library monitors and avid readers, be informed about up-and-coming library happenings - like the Scholastic Book Fair, visiting authors and illustrators, library quizzes, dress-up-days, storytimes and more.

We have recently purchased a delightful selection of new picture books and sophisticated picture books. Here are a few title covers to capture your imagination  ...

NEW BOOKS COMING SOON!




This is a story about three elephants put to death at the
Tokyo zoo during the war.  It is a sad, but true story
that lets you know about the grief and fear that war produces.

When Farmer Brown goes on vacation, leaving
his brother Bob in charge, Duck makes trouble
by changing all his instructions to notes
the animals like much better.

This is a simple story, about a small creature
who does his best to join in with the others. But he's different.
No matter how he tries, he just doesn't belong.
Then Something turns up and wants to be friends.
But Something Else isn't sure he's like him at all...

This is a story of fourteen orphan children going West,
dreaming of a better life.  The Orphan Train itself is real:
the route it takes and the place names are fictional.

There was once only the sound of bees and the wind in the wiry grass,
the low murmuring of moles in the cool dark earth.
The Varmints come and build their city where once was wilderness.
Before they realize what they have done, there is nothing but a huge dark city.
But one small person has saved a small patch of green and sees
that a few others have done the same. Is this the beginning...

Sitting in the crowded hull, with her mother's arms around her,
Ziba remembers all that she has left behind.
They hope to find peace and safety in a new land,
but where will their journey end,
and what will they find when they arrive?