The Book Fair is Coming!!

The book fair is coming!! Next week is our "spring" book fair! I wish it actually felt like spring outside... =)

If you can't wait to shop, or you have family outside of the area that would like to shop, you can visit our ONLINE BOOK FAIR and shop! Books will be shipped to our school after the book fair is finished, and the online book fair is closed.

2013 Book Awards

2013 Book Awards were announced this morning!! 

Click on the link to view the list in it's entirety, but we've got most of the winners here in our library!

Caldecott Award (illustration)

The Caldecott Medal was named in honor of nineteenth-century English illustrator Randolph Caldecott. It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children.

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Newbery Award

The Newbery Medal was named for eighteenth-century British bookseller John Newbery. It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.

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Theodore Geisel Award

The Geisel Award is given annually to the author(s) and illustrator(s) of the most distinguished American book for beginning readers published in English in the United States during the preceding year. 

 

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Congratulations to all the winners!

Our Library Mouse

We have a new resident in our library...

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I can't WAIT to see what happens in our library now... stay tuned!

It's COLD Outside!

It is SO VERY COLD outside!  This winter stuff is NO FUN! It's too cold to even go outside and enjoy the snow (not that I enjoy the snow, I'm not a fan of winter) BUT, the cold DID remind me of a story... imagine that!

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Froggy is SO excited to get out to play in the snow that he keeps forgetting some VERY important items...

We also looked up frogs in our non-fiction section (597) and learned that frogs actually HIBERNATE in the winter! Wouldn't that be nice? =) we could skip all this cold if we just slept through winter! I think that's a great idea! We also looked at Nic Bishop Frogs and learned that not all frogs are green... this is a super cool book, and the pictures are amazing!!

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We are introducing another of our Beehive Book Award nominees this week! Hooray for Amanda and Her Alligator!, by Mo Willems. This is a darling book about friendship & silliness, I love this story!

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