I am a school librarian,of course, but I was intersted in hearing another librarian’s prespective on Children’s Book Week. I contacted Becky, aka The Bookette, and she mentioned a post she had written back in May 2010. So today’s post, courtesy of Becky, is her Bookette’s Guide to Planning a Book Week. The Bookette’s Guide to Planning …
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The Rights of the Reader
Daniel Pennac with illustrations by Quentin Blake, translated by Sarah Ardizzone (née Adams) (Walker books) Parents, teachers, librarians,please on no account use these pages as an instrument of torture. These words of caution from the author at the very beginning of the book set the tone of one of my most favourite books. Daniel Pennac is a bestselling French …
Marked
PC & Kristin Cast(Atom Books) When Zoey Redbird, a teenager with a very strict family, gets marked to soon become a vampire, her life gets turned upside down: she will have to move to the House of Night, a boarding school for vampire fledgings, where she will learn to become a vampire or die before she reaches that …