Thoughtful Words From Liam

 'I Love Library Words'

The Library is an elegant place. In the Library the non-fiction smells like serious business and the fiction smells like being free. When you open a fantastic book, you enter another world.

by Liam Rm 18 Year 4

Book Buying

Last Wednesday Mrs Moore and I had a great day choosing new books for our library.
What did we get? Well that is a surprise for when you come on your next visit! But we not only bought books! We also now have five more native birds in the library and a Hairy Maclary!

New Books for Week Nine

Here are just some of the new books in the library this week:

         Lego Star Wars Character Encyclopedia
         Pictures of Home by Colin Thompson
         Smelly Bill Stinks Again by Daniel Postgate

Come in and have a read. Remember we are open before school starts at 8.30am.
Which book is your favourite this week?

Mrs Howard Loves to Read

Recently we had a visit from Mrs Howard, our ESOL support assistant. She kindly read to Room 6 one of her favourite books Fire! Fire! by Lesley Rees.
Even though it was very noisy outside due to the construction of our new classroom block we all enjoyed listening to someone new!!
Come back soon Mrs Howard.

Rainy Day Reading

                       
                        What better place to be, than reading in the library on a wet winters
                         day!

                        My favourite new book this week is: One Smart Fish by Chris Wormell.
                        This is a funny tale about a fish who wants to walk on land!
                       

New Books!

Here are some of our new books for week 7:

Pop-Up London by Jennie Maizels

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flies Again by Frank Cottrell Boyce

Sweet Treats by Carolyn Beth Weil

The lemon bars in Sweet Treats look real yummy!

Come in and have a look at all our new books on display this week.

Winners!

Winner of the Non-Fiction Category: Nice Day for a War by Chris Slade
Winner of the Fiction Category: Super Finn by Leonie Agnew
Winner of the Picture Book Category: Rahui by Chris Szekely

Winner of the Children's Choice Award : The Cat's Pyjamas by Catherine Foreman

The NZ Post Children's Book Awards Finalists 2012

Picture Books
The Cat's Pyjamas by Catherine Foreman

Later by Tina Matthews

Stomp! by Ruth Paul

Rahui by Chris Szekely

 Junior Fiction

The Travelling Restaurant by Barbara Else

Super Finn by Leonie Agnew

Just Jack by Adele Broadbent

The Loblolly Boy & the Sorcerer by James Norcliffe

 Non-Fiction
 Nice Day for a War by Matt Elliott & Chris Slade

New Zealand Hall of Fame by Maria Gill

Digging Up the Past by David Veart

The Life Cycle of the Tuatara by Betty Brownlie

We will be sharing these books this week during library. What books do you think should win?

Mrs Matchett Loves to Read

At the end of term one Room 3 was lucky enough to have Mrs Matchett from our school office come and read to them.

 Here she is reading  "Cave Baby" by Julia Donaldson. This is a new book to our library, but some of you might recognise the authors name. Julia Donaldson writes the hugely popular Gruffalo books.

Mrs Matchett tells us she loves reading and we love having her in the library reading to us!!

Library Round Up

After a busy term in the library it is now time for Years 1, 2 and 3 to return their library books by Thursday of this week: 5/4/12.
Years 4, 5 and 6 are able to take one book home for the holidays. Don't forget the library is open from 8.30am, so come and see me and choose a good book to read.
We also have a 300 piece jigsaw puzzle that needs to be completed by Thursday afternoon!!
Have a great holiday and remember to do lots of reading!

Room 17's Library Display

A big thankyou to Room 17 for their very colourful library display.
Every fortnight we have a new classroom display in the library. Come and check them out.

Mrs Ripley Loves to Read

On Monday Mrs Ripley, our busy school secretary came to the library and read to Room 13.
Here they are reading 'On The Road to Tuapeka' by Ben Brown.
This is one of our new books in the library.
Come and read to us again Mrs Ripley!