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This Friday at 3pm we will be having our own book launch for the new book My New Zealand Story : Canterbury Quake  Christchurch 2010-2011

It is the latest book in the  My New Zealand Story  series, written in diary format and written by Desna Wallace.

It is the tale of 10 year old Maddy.

“Anyone would think Maddy’s world had crumbled when she didn’t get a cell phone for her eleventh birthday. But Maddy soon has far more important things to worry about. In the dark of night, with a terrifying rumble and a deafening roar, the world turns upside down! Suddenly, words like ‘liquefaction’, ‘aftershocks’ and ‘state of emergency’ bubble to the surface of her vocabulary.

As Maddy navigates the bumps and crashes of life after the big quakes, she discovers how strong family ties can be, and finds friendship in the most unlikely of places.”

This book will be available on Friday for $20 with profits going to the purchase of new library books.

You can get an order form from the library and pay in advance or pay on the day.

And yes – the author is me – your librarian.

Come and see me on Friday and I will sign your books for you.

Welcome back  to school everyone.

It is going to be a wonderful year with lots of things happening.

I hope you all had fantastic holidays and are excited about your classes and all the fantastic things you will be doing this year.

There will be new books in the library to explore and read. Come and tell me what books you read during the holidays.

It was a great time shared by all at lunch time yesterday when Dr Who, a Star Fleet Officer, and a Cyborg, all turned up for a visit to our school.

The costumes were amazing and the children loved  following the Cyborg, or chasing the young Doctor through the playground. The visitors had read about our Tardis in The Press and wanted to come for a special visit so of course we said , Yes! Thank you so much for for making lunch time so special.

Matty and the Doctor  

Two great Christmas books we have in the library are The Snowman by Raymond Briggs and a sequel The Snowman and the Snowdog.

Watch the trailers and read the books. There are plenty of Christmas stories to read next to the Christmas display in the library.

The Doctor Who Tardis has been the talk of the school (and the Press newspaper). Students have been reading the new Doctor Who books and talking about where they would like to time travel too if they had the chance. We made this into a competition with the winner taking away a toy Dalek.

Mr Walker, who made our Tardis chose Amelie as the winner for her choice.

“I would like to go forward into the future to when the book teleporter is invented. (A book teleporter is where you can step into an amazing book and stay in that location as long as you want”.

Amelie

There were so many ideas. Lots of children wanted to go back in time to the dinosaurs. Some wanted to go back to the war and stop it from happening while some wanted to go back to war just to ride the tanks! One child wanted to go back so he could see his parents as children. So many wonderful ideas.

Room 12 took their library time outside the library yesterday. They issued their books and enjoyed time reading them under the cherry trees outside the library. It really was lovely to see them engrossed in their books but enjoying a bit of sunshine too.

During the last week of term  these two gorgeous visitors tried getting through the door. Just goes to prove reading is for everyone!

A very huge thank you to the PTA who have all worked so hard at fundraising to provide the library with a brand new iPad. Our first!

 Rachel and Becky are checking out a Winnie the Pooh story on the iPad. Love the green carry case as it matches the rest of the library. Over the next few weeks I will be adding Apps to it to read and enjoy books. There will be QR codes set up to take you to some interesting book reviews too so do come and see our new iPad.