SPINE POETRY CONTEST

Congratulations to the winner of our Spine Poetry Contest: Mary Nora!  Students had a great time using the spines of library books to create a unique poem. They then took a photo of their poem with their iPads and submitted it to the contest (for 4th graders, I took the photo). Here is our winning entry, a tribute to the United States:

We also had two runner-ups: Johnny in second place and Maria in third. Both of these students created poems with both meaning and poetic language:

A big thanks to all those who submitted a poem! Great job, everyone!

Birthday Book Club! Hurray!

 

Tesse is back! This time with two Birthday Books that she donated to the library! These two books will be wonderful additions to our collection: Claudette Colvin-Twice Toward Justice by Phillip Hoose and Who is J.K. Rowling? by Pam Pollack and Meg Belviso. I think that both of these books will be very popular. Thank you, Tesse! Keep reading!

Hurray For Birthday Book Club!

Here is adorable Ella who donated two “Ella” books: Ella, The Elegant Elephant and Ella Sets Sail by Carmela and Steven D’Amico. We read these fun books to K4, K5, and 1′st grades and they were big hits with all the students. Thank you, Ella, for the terrific gift to our library collection. Be sure to check these out!

 

National Winner!

This is the National Winner of the Spine Poetry Contest. I am eagerly waiting to collect the St. Eugene poems next week! But I do like this one!!

Birthdays and Hidden Treasures

What a special day it was today for Kenny! Not only did he donate four books to become a  member of the 2013 Birthday Book Club, but he also became our newest Hidden Treasure Reader! Here he is with his Hidden Treasure:

 

Kenny discovered a wonderful non-fiction book, Animal Weapons by George Frederick Mason. Kenny especially loved the part about how hawks and falcons can use their talons to attack their prey and find their food. He thought it was a fascinating book.

 

And here is Kenny with his Birthday Book Club Books! Kenny donated: Growing Up Muslim by Ali-Karamali; No god But God by Reza Aslan; Five Little Monkeys/Cinco Monitos by Ellen Christelow; and How Dalia Put A Big Yellow Comforter Inside A Tiny Blue Box by Linda Heller. All these wonderful books will be ready for check-out soon! Thanks, Kenny!

Birthday Book Club!

Alex is the newest member of the 2013 St. Eugene Birthday Book Club! Alex donated two books: The Littles and The Littles To the Rescue by John Peterson. We are so excited to have new copies of these books in our collection! Students really enjoy this series about tiny people who live in the walls of the Bigg house. What would it be like to be really little in a big world? Check these out and find out!

R.I.P. E.L. Konigsburg