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Thursday 31 October 2013

Books are a treasure!

Our books are a real treasure. This year we earned an abundance of new books through the library book fair (which was so heartily supported) and through Scholastic lucky book club (thank-you for supporting this on an ongoing basis) and we have spent our budget (thoughtfully) on non-fiction, award-winning fiction, picture books, sophisticated picture books and graphic novels. In celebration of our wonderful new collection of books, we are currently running a Pirate theme, with the coveted treasure displayed in a chest, richly overflowing with brand new, fabulous, sparkling, colourful BOOKS - available for loan to our school children and staff.

There is a make-shift pirate ship that the children have enjoyed climbing under and peeping through the portholes, or sitting quietly in while they read, read, read ...

It is hard to put into words why books are such a treasure, so I've turned to the poets: 

Notes on the Art of Poetry by Dylan Thomas

I could never have dreamt that there were such goings-on
in the world between the covers of books,
such sandstorms and ice blasts of words,
such staggering peace, such enormous laughter,
such and so many blinding bright lights,
splashing all over the pages
in a million bits and pieces
all of which were words, words, words,
and each of which were alive forever
in its own delight and glory and oddity and light.
So READ, me hearties! Dip your hands into the treasure chest and select, carefully, thoughtfully and with relish... books to take home and read, page through, skim, savour and enjoy!



Wednesday 23 October 2013

Hi there readers!

Over the past few months I have been posting links to book trailers created by members of the Y5/6 book club, Black & White Inc. We have been working on this project in stages. The first step was to write a book review... and if you scroll down the page or click on earlier posts you will find some of the engaging reviews that they wrote. These are also displayed in the library if you would like to read them in hard copy.

Stage two was to create storyboards. These did not need to be works of art, but just a rough timeline of the story to be told through images and captions. 

Thereafter we talked about copyrights, creative commons and the importance of referencing any pictures that you use from the internet. 

In a few days time I will announce more information about the Book Trailer Competition that we will be running at the school. So book club members who would like to get their trailer complete in time, please go online at home, with your parent's help and consent of course, and see if you can get those images put into our Dropbox folder. For those of you who don't finish in time for the competition, don't despair... we will be doing many more fun, literary projects this year.

Yours in books,
Kate