This week...

In The Wild, by David Elliott ... one of our Beehive Book Award nominees in poetry, is our book of choice this week.  Can YOU guess what animal each poem is describing?

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Don't forget - ballots are available on the circulation counter when you are ready to vote for your favorite books!  We will be tallying up votes in the next couple of weeks to submit to CLAU (Children's Literature Association of Utah)

This Week in the Library...

Everyone has a "Cousin Ed" in their lives... someone who tells outrageous stories, and you aren't sure what to believe and what NOT to believe!  This is a super fun story about the stories Cousin Ed tells, and how the tables get turned on Cousin Ed. =)  

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Also this week, we will begin voting for our favorite Beehive Book Award nominees!  We've been reading them all year, and now we need to count the votes and send them in!  Ballots are available at the Circulation desk.  If you would like a reminder about the books that have been nominated, please visit www.clau.org for more information.

Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!

(you have to sing this out loud... :)

happy birthday to you!!
happy birthday to you!!
happy birthday dr. seuuuss,
happy birthday to YOU!!

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some of MY favorite dr. seuss books . . .

oh, the places you'll go!
i'm NOT going to get up today!
the cat in the hat
i can read with my eyes shut
the sneetches
horton hears a who
dr. seuss' abc's

Final Reading Minutes

The Final number submitted to Scholastic and the Utah Jazz:

202,571 Total minutes read

454.2 minutes per student here at Riverview! 

We actually read more than that, but that's the amount we had turned in by Tuesday morning!  Pretty impressive considering we are a brand new school!  We have a few prizes to give away, and we will be doing that during announcements Monday, February 27th. We have our two autographed books, two autographed photographs of Gordon Hayward and Paul Millsap, and TWO TICKETS to a JAZZ game!  I SO wish I could win!  =) We will post those lucky winners after they are announced on Monday.  

Thank you for your dedication to reading, and keep reading every day!

Reading Contest

An update on our Jazz Reading Contest...

Tuesday is the day your teachers need to turn in to me all your reading minutes over the last few weeks... TUESDAY!!  Wow! This has whizzed by!  We have a looooong weekend to READ, so get busy reading!  We need to accumulate as many reading minutes as we possibly can before Tuesday!  READ, READ, READ!!

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Happy Valentines Day!

Celebrate by reading the books you love!

Newest Additions to our Library

Thanks to your wonderful support of the book fair, we were able to add the following books to our collection...

I Didn't Do It by Patricia MacLachlan
ABC Kids  - Basher Books
Mermaid Queen by Shana Corey
But Excuse Me That is My Book by Lauren Child
We the Children by Andrew Clements
Fairly Fairy Tales by Esme Raji Codell
Ladybug Girl at the Beach by David Soman and Jacky Davis
Do You do a Didgeridoo? by Nick Page
Down Down Down by Steve Jenkins
Worms for Lunch? by Leonid Gore
Ten Little Caterpillars by Bill Martin Jr.
I, Doko by Ed Young
George - George Washington, Our Founding Father by Frank Keating

and one of our very favorite books...

Pete the Cat: Rocking in my School Shoes by Eric Litwin

update:  (2-23-2012)
We have been able to purchase even MORE books for our library because of your support of our book fairs!  They are:

The Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Treasure Hunt (Judy & Stink Moody) by Megan McDonald
I Am the Book by Lee Bennett Hopkins
The Wonderful Book by Leonid Gore
Dark Life & Rip Tide by Kat Falls
If You Give a Pig a Party by Laura Numeroff
Floors by Patrick Carman
Pie by Sarah Weeks
Olivia and the Christmas Present by Ian Falconer
Library Mouse by Daniel Kirk
Miss Smith's Incredible Storybook by Michael Garland

THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!