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Top of the mornin’! This Saturday is St.Patrick’s Day so the library is festooned with shamrocks and everything else Irish! We have lots of books about St.Patrick’s Day, leprechauns and shamrocks. We also have books on traditional Irish folklore and Continue reading St. Patrick’s Day is this Saturday, March 17th
Last week, and for some of this week, I will be reading Goodnight ipad: a parody for the next generation to all the classes except the Kindergartners and grade 1s. It is a parody of Margaret Wise Brown’s 1947 classic, Continue reading Goodnight ipad by Ann Droyd
Mrs. Letford’s class is reading Amish Adventure by Barbara Smucker for this term’s novel study. Students in her class can go to the following websites to find out more about the Amish people: Amish, Hutterites , The Amish & Plain People. Continue reading Div.5 – Amish Adventure
On Wed.Feb.29th, the Vancouver Opera Society will be at Seaforth to perform Hansel and Gretel. The library has many different illustrated versions of this fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm in both French and English. But did you know that Continue reading Books that are Grimm!
This week at Seaforth, we will be celebrating Carnaval and all things related to Quebec culture. As part of it, I will be reading The Voyageur’s Paddle by Kathy-jo Wargin and The Red Sash by Jean E. Pendziwol to the grade Continue reading Feb.20-23 – Carnaval
For readers who love ‘fractured fairy tales’, this is the book for you. Elements of the story are inspired by Hans Christian Anderson’s The Snow Queen. To entice you to read it, watch this fabulous book trailer made by a Continue reading Breadcrumbs by Anne Ursu
Yesterday was Valentine’s Day, a day to celebrate love and romance. To me, as a teacher-librarian, it’s a day to remind children of the value of friendship. So, this week , I’ll be reading You will be my Friend! by Continue reading Valentine’s Day
Kenneth Oppel is a prolific Canadian children’s author who began writing books in his teens. Some of you may know, and have read his popular Silverwing series. His two recently written novels for Young Adults have been optioned for movies. Continue reading Kenneth Oppel
Last Monday morning, Seaforth had an assembly to launch Kindness Month which will end on Pink Shirt Day. Last week, I read two books to some of the primary classes which focussed on kindness and generosity. The two books were Continue reading February is Kindness Month
There is a website I just found out about that offers free books to read on-line. It’s called We Give Books and is a Pearson Foundation Initiative sponsored by Pearson Publishing and Penguin Books . What’s fabulous about this site is that Continue reading We Give Books website