BRADBURY LIBRARY JANUARY SHARE
NEWS SHARED WITH BRADBURY STAFF FROM THE LIBRARY
Have you visited Bradbury's New Resource Page?
The author, ALAN GIBBONS, will be visiting with all students at Bradbury on March 1st, mark your calendars!
Overdues: NICE JOB RESOLVING
*Someone asked me the other day how I feel about classrooms borrowing 30-50 books for their students to enjoy... YES, ABSOLUTELY, PLEASE!
Three events in the next month:
2. Book Breakfast, February 28th.
3. Book Character Day/World Book Day, March 7th.
Library Term Two Schedule:
Here is the updated term two schedule (at this point) for your reference:
ROOM TO READ!
We have raised $100,000 HKD so far! If your students still have a form, please turn it in ASAP. Thank you.
Additionally, for information on what Room to Read is, please visit this site:http://www.roomtoread.org/
We anticipate celebrating the success of our Read-a-Thon this spring on World Book Day, March 7th with a book character day!
Drowning in new books, still!
FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE MONTH:
Ting and Ling Not Exactly The Same by Grace Lin
Ready for a wonderful, touching early reader about twin sisters and their life adventures.
Hurt Go Happy by Ginny Rorby
The main character is a deaf girl whose mother doesn't want her to learn sign language. Her secret friend, a chimpanzee, teaches her how to communicate and brings her on a special adventure.
Water Weed and Wait by Edith Hope Fine
Great gardening action non-fiction picture book.
TUMBLEBOOKS: NEW SUBSCRIPTION
So how do I access this Debbie?
1. Go to this link and enjoy! Tumblebooks
2. If you are prompted to login, check in with me on the easy Username/Password!!
What about iPads Debbie?
Answer from Tumblebooks: Students, teachers and patrons logging onto TumbleBooks with an iPad will be pointed directly to our TumbleBooks for Mobile Devices site. It looks exactly like our regular website but all the content in every category will be iPad compatible!!
New updates around the library:
See if you can catch all the changes- there are new shelves, displays and more!
GRAPHIC NOVELS COLLECTION!
The shelf is looking a little lonely since they're so popular!
THANKS FOR COMING TO THE BOOK BREAKFAST!
Mark your calendar, our next Staff Book Breakfast with a focus on Professional Collection books. This time, it is occurring on: Thursday, February 28th!
AUTHOR VISITS!!
Not 1, Not 2, but 3 authors are visiting Bradbury this year!
Thank you so much for all the Lenore Look author visit support. Shall look forward to her followup Skype visit this Spring!
Second author visit was Lenore Look http://lenorelook.wordpress.com who visited in person on November 15th.
Our third author visit will be Alan Gibbons http://www.alangibbons.com who will visit in person on March 1st.
Debbie's Personal Notes
http://thestylinglibrarian.com/2012/11/20/styling-librarian-skype-author-visit-with-laurel-snyder/
Additionally, there are numerous books that we highlighted for the book breakfast, here's the list!: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0ByPhlZAIDmUTcnEyTW92NmdvNDQ
BORROWING STATS:
We are excited about book circulation:
Thanks for reading!
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