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    Dreaming with Eyes Open | Book Week Display 2022

    July 17, 2022 /

    It’s almost Book Week! One of my favourite times of the year in the library. I have just finished creating my Book Week display for this year’s theme “Dreaming with Eyes Open,” and I hope the students will love it. This year’s theme is a bit of a tricky one to create a display for, there are so many options. So I chose to match the theme with a book about a dream, and “The Wizard of Oz” was the winner. The display also doubles as a photo booth. During Book Week students will be able to step inside the display and have their photos taken. I then display the…

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    Old Worlds, New Worlds, Other Worlds|Book Week Display 2021

    June 25, 2021 /

    Yay! It’s almost Book Week! One of my favourite times of the year in the library. This week I finished my Book Week display for this year’s theme “Old Worlds, New Worlds, Other Worlds,” and I can’t wait for the students to see it after the holidays. I chose space to represent the theme this year. With Earth (old world) and Tatooine (other world) in the background and Mars (new world) in the foreground. The display also doubles as a photo booth. During Book Week students will be able to step inside the display and have their photos taken. I then display the photos on the TV in the library.…

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    Curious Creatures, Wild Minds | Book Week Display 2020

    October 10, 2020 /

    Curious Creatures, Wild Minds Book Week Display 2020. Take a wander through this year's Book Week display in my library. The jungle display also doubles as a photobooth.

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    Celebrating the Little Moments | 9 Picture Books for Children

    August 23, 2020 /

    The big moments in life are filled with excitement, fun and happiness, but sometimes it is the small quiet moments that bring us the most joy and the fondest memories. These quiet moments have been beautifully captured in these 9 picture books for children of all ages. They are filled with lovely reminders of how simple moments can be extraordinary too.

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    9 Picture Books about the Coronavirus

    August 13, 2020 /

    Here are 9 picture books about the coronavirus. Each of these beautiful books looks at the virus from a child’s perspective and are perfect for starting a conversation with your children.

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    The Beginning Woods by Malcolm McNeil

    June 6, 2020 /

    A mystery no one can solve. The Vanishings started without warning. People disappearing into thin air – just piles of clothes left behind. Each day, thousands gone without a trace.  A baby no one wanted. Max was abandoned in a bookshop and grows up haunted by memories of his parents. Only he can solve the mystery of the Vanishings.  A secret that could save the future. To find the answers, Max must leave this world and enter the Beginning Woods. A realm of magic and terror, life and death. But can he bear the truth – or will it destroy him? A story that will take you to another world. Greater than your dreams.…

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    May Gibbs: Snugglepot & Cuddlepie

    May 13, 2020 /

    To us she is May Gibbs, creator of Snugglepot & Cuddlepie. But to her family, she was known as ‘Mamie’. In a land far away, where fairies and pixies and elves live deep in the woods, a little girl is born. Her family call her Mamie. Mamie loves to sing, dance and paint with her magical friends. Her days are like a modern-day fairy tale. But when her family moves to the bottom of the world, Mamie’s life is turned upside down. From green fields drenched with rain to hot skies and dusty plains, will she ever find new fairy friends in this strange and beautiful land? For my daughter’s birthday…

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    The Forgetting by Sharon Cameron

    May 12, 2020 /

    What isn’t written, isn’t remembered. Even your crimes. Nadia lives in the city of Canaan, where life is safe and structured, hemmed in by white stone walls and no memory of what came before. But every twelve years the city descends into the bloody chaos of the Forgetting, a day of no remorse, when each person’s memories — of parents, children, love, life, and self — are lost. Unless they have been written. In Canaan, your book is your truth and your identity, and Nadia knows exactly who hasn’t written the truth. Because she is the only person in Canaan who has never forgotten. But when Nadia begins to use…

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    Star Wars: 16 Books for Padawans

    May 4, 2020 /

    As today is May the 4th, I thought I might join in the Star Wars fun and take a look at some of the Star Wars books I have in my Junior School Library. Star Wars books are always extremely popular and are almost always out on loan. Below are some of the student’s favourites. In this selection you will see Non Fiction and Fiction books with something for everyone, both younger and older children and everyone in between. Non Fiction Books Star Wars: Complete Vehicles The complete guide to the spacecraft and vehicles of the Star Wars six-film saga. It features 55 giant cross-section pictures and hundreds of smaller…

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    Book Week Display 2019

    July 21, 2019 /

    This week I finished my Book Week display for this year’s theme “Reading is My Secret Power.” For this year’s display I did the more obvious superhero take on the theme, creating a city for my superheroes (students) to hang out in. My display also doubles as a photo booth. During Book Week students will be able to step inside the display and have their photos taken. I then display the photos on the TV in the library. The students love seeing their photos and sharing them with their friends. The photos look fantastic when they are in their costumes for the Book Week Parade, and I will have a…

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