Does your school have a classroom set of The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier that you won’t be using around January 15th? As a cost savings measure, Paynesville School District is hoping to borrow the classroom set, or purchase it (at a reduced cost) from another school in the region.
Details:
Need a classroom set of 30, plus teacher’s activity guides (if available).
Needed for third quarter (around January 15th).
They are willing to arrange shipping or will pick them up & return them to your school.
If loaning (rather than selling) the set to the Paynesville District, they will pay for any lost or damaged books.
Please contact Joan Nevitt (Media Specialist) directly at joan.nevitt@gmail.com, if you are able to assist them.
The Book Riot site proclaims bookish things for those with a fetish for books! Take a look for some seriously clever ideas for ways to “upcycle” old books. Sounds great, right?
Are you wondering if book lovers can find interesting boards on Pinterest? Consider children’s book maps, bookmobiles, or book spine poetry! Here are 15 exceptionally entertaining Pinterest boards for you to explore. Go to http://tinyurl.com/8n8f4tu.Not in an elementary school? Consider your grandchildren or your neighborhood children, and you will be a hit! From Delightful Childrens Books, Oct. 7.
Have you checked out the all new “What Should I Read Next?” http://whatshouldireadnext.com site? Fresh for fall 2012, this is a fun way to get your reading list in order for all that cozy reading time you’re planning! Type in the title or author of your choice (preferably one you loved!) and up pops a list of suggested titles. The list of suggested titles populates from user’s favorites lists – and the more times the titles appear together on user’s lists, the higher the title moves up on the recommendation list. Pretty nifty… but, will never beat reader’s advisory or book talks! 😉 Use it with your patrons and students, too!
On April 14th, nearly 800 people attended the Minnesota Book Awards Gala. During the event, winners in eight categories were selected and acknowledged, along with the Readers’ Choice Award. The nine winners include: BookSpeak! Poems about Books by Laura Purdie Salas for Children’s Literature, Fool Me Twice: Fighting the Lawsuit on Science in America by Shawn Lawrence Otto for General Nonfiction, Big Wheat by Richard A. Thompson for Genre Fiction, A Song at Twilight: Of Alzheimer’s and Love by Nancy Paddock for Memoir & Creative Nonfiction, Pioneer Modernists: Minnesota’s First Generation of Women Artists by Julie L’Enfant for the Award for Minnesota, The Law of Miracles and Other Stories by Gregory Blake Smith for Novel & Short Story, Whorled by Ed Bok Lee for Poetry, With or Without You by Brian Farrey for Young People’s Literature, and The Tanglewood Terror by Kurtis Scaletta for the Readers’ Choice Award.
