Brightening up the day

So, it's a rainy day here and I'm feeling a little cloudy myself. But nothing brightens up a low day like... A NEW ELEPHANT & PIGGIE BOOK!!!!


Thanks, Mo!!! You sure know how to make a girl smile!!!

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A couple of tips!

A really cute new picture book came into the library the other day, and I just had to share!! The title of the book is There's a Dragon in the Library by Dianne de Las Casas, illustrated by Marita Gentry. This book is full of imagination, and great pictures, too!!


Anyway, at the end of the book, Max (the hero of our story!) gives a couple of Book Care Tips. So, courtesy of Max...

Max's Book Care Tips:

~~Don't read in the rain, the bath, or the shower.

~~Use a bookmark instead of folding a page to mark your place.

~~Books do not make good lunch trays.

~~When you take a book off the shelf, let a librarian reshelve it.

~~Return your library books on time. Librarians really appreciate it.

~~Never leave a book unsupervised near a hungry dragon.

~~Books are for reading, not for eating!

He makes some good points, doesn't he?!?! Thanks, Max, for these awesome tips!!!

New Book Focus

So, we just got in a new book by TonyDiTerlizzi, the author of The Spiderwick Chronicles. The new book is called The Search for WondLa, and it's been getting some good buzz! Here's the review from School Library Journal:

Twelve-year-old Eva Nine is being raised by Muthr, a pale blue robot who is loving and maternal (she speaks in the sweet, unflappable tones of a 1950s sit-com mom), in an underground home on the planet Orbona. When a marauder destroys her home, she leaves Sanctuary in a quest to find other humans like herself. Above ground she finds a fantastic and frightening world populated by malevolent wandering trees, a giant beast who is pursuing her, nasty sand-snipers, and more. With the aid of Rovender, a lanky blue creature with backward-bending knees, and Otto, a giant water bear with whom she can communicate telepathically, Eva faces many dangers, including capture by a taxidermist who wants to skin her in order to create a living fossil for display. This first book in the series concludes with her arrival at her destination in the ancient city of ruins. The abundant illustrations, drawn in a flat, two-tone style, are lush and enhance readers' understanding of this unique universe. In addition, augmented reality is used in three places. By holding up the page from the book to a webcam, an interactive map appears on the screen. Readers can watch as the landscape where Eva Nine is traveling unfolds. DiTerlizzi is pushing the envelope in his latest work, nearly creating a new format that combines a traditional novel with a graphic novel and with the interactivity of the computer. Yet, beneath this impressive package lies a theme readers will easily relate to: the need to belong, to connect, to figure out one's place in the world. The novel's ending is a stunning shocker that will leave kids frantically awaiting the next installment.

Reading Level: 9-12
Pages: 496