March - EcoReads for Kids
Theme: March - EcoReads
Quote: Along with milk and vegetables,kids need a diet of rocks and worms:
Rocks need skipping.
Holes need digging.
Water needs splashing.
Bugs and frogs and slimy stuff needs finding.
Window by Jeannie Baker
Window is a groundbreaking work which points to one possible direction for books in the future - the wordless picture book. It also has a serious purpose, to give children an understanding of how growth affects the world we live in. (While it has no text, it does not lack words; what words there are, are incorporated into the visual images; some of the scenes are 'immersed' in print.) The central image is a window. Each of the thirteen double-page spreads shows the window frame and the view outside the window - the reader is always standing inside, looking out.
Belonging by Jeannie Baker Thirteen years passed between these companion titles. 'A friend spoke about a street she really loved in inner Sydney. This street of terrace houses had been closed to traffic. It's windows, walls and pavements were filled to overflowing with plants, growing from window boxes, from breaks in the pavement, from pot plants, creeping up and covering walls of the houses. It was a narrow street but full of character … a place where neighbours chatted and children played.' The community in ‘Window’ have a home: but in my mind we could call any place home whereas the word ‘belonging’ implies an emotional connection. If one wants to really belong to something one has to work at it and contribute to it. - Jeannie Baker
The Tomorrow Book by Jackie French & Sue Degennaro A timely picture book about a young prince who is determined to rule over a country where the future is filled with environmental hope - and practical solutions, such as common usage of solar and wind power. Lively, fun and positive, this book serves to give young people information about their world and shows them that a lot of environmental solutions are simple and relatively easy to put in place. Produced on recycled paper to reflect the message within, this is a beautiful book.
Uno's Garden by Graeme BaseWhen Uno arrives in the forest one beautiful day, there are many fascinating and extraordinary animals there to greet him. And one entirely unexceptional Snortlepig. Uno loves the forest so much, he decides to live there. But, in time, a little village grows up around his house. Then a town, then a city. . . and soon Uno realises that the animals and plants have begun to disappear. Enter the magical world of Graeme Base's forest, filled with wild and wonderful animals, Uno's unique family and friends and also - the elusive Snortlepig!
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| Mud, mud, glorious mud! |
Keep Reading- Book vs Movie
Read these opening lines and decide if you'd like to Keep Reading this book!
My suffering left me sad and gloomy.
Academic study and the steady, mindful practice of religion slowly brought me back to life. I have kept up what some people would consider my strange religious practices. After one year of high school, I attended the University of Toronto and took a double major Bachelor's degree. My majors were religious studies and zoology. My fourth-year thesis for religious studies concerned certain aspects of the cosmogony theory of Isaac Luria, the great sixteenth century Kabbalist from Safed. My Zoology thesis was a functional analysis of the thyroid gland of three toed sloth. I chose the sloth because its demeanour - calm, quiet and introspective-did something to soothe my shattered self.
There are two-toed sloths and there are three-toed sloths, the case being determined by the forepaws of the animals, since all sloths have three claws on their hind paws.I had great luck one summer of studying the three toed sloth in situ in the equatorial jungles of Brazil. It is a highly intriguing creature. Its only real habit is indolence. It sleeps or rests on average twenty hours a day. Our team tested the sleeping habits of five wild three-toed sloths by placing on their heads, in the early evening after they had fallen asleep, bright plastic dishes filled with water. We found them still in place late the next morning, the water in the dishes swarming with insects. The sloth is at its busiest at sunset, using the word busy here in the most relaxed sense.
To Keep Reading this book request it from the library now!
iBLURB for Teens 3
Phrase: Don't cry because of 1 person, remember there are still 7,094,277, 234 people to smile at.
City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
Their hidden world is about to be revealed....
City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
Their hidden world is about to be revealed....
When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in
New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder — much less a murder
committed by three teenagers covered with strange tattoos and brandishing
bizarre weapons. Clary knows she should call the police, but it's hard to
explain a murder when the body disappears into thin air and the murderers are
invisible to everyone but Clary. Equally startled by her ability to see them, the murderers explain
themselves as Shadowhunters: a secret tribe of warriors dedicated to ridding
the earth of demons. Within twenty-four hours, Clary's mother disappears and
Clary herself is almost killed by a grotesque demon. But why would demons be
interested in ordinary mundanes like Clary and her mother? And how did Clary
suddenly get the Sight? The Shadowhunters would like to know....(City
of Bones has everything: vampires, werewolves, faeries, true love, and
stuff that blows up. What's more, Clare's characters are brilliant — she better
not kill any of them off in the next two volumes! Justine Larbalestier, author of Magic or Madness.)
Matched by Ally Condie
Cassia has always trusted the Society to make the right
choices for her: what to read, what to watch, what to believe. So when Xander's
face appears on-screen at her Matching ceremony, Cassia knows he is her ideal
mate... until she sees Ky Markham's face flash for an instant before the screen
fades to black. The Society tells her it's a glitch, a rare malfunction, and
that she should focus on the happy life she's destined to lead with Xander. But
Cassia can't stop thinking about Ky, and as they slowly fall in love, Cassia
begins to doubt the Society's infallibility and is faced with an impossible
choice: between Xander and Ky, between the only life she's known and a path
that no one else has dared to follow. (continue the trilogy by reading Crossed and Reached - if you dare!)
Looking for Alaska
by John Green
Before Miles 'Pudge' Halter is done with his safe
life at home. His whole life has been one big non-event, and his obsession with
famous last words has only made him crave 'the Great Perhaps' even more. He heads off to the sometimes crazy and anything-but-boring
world of Culver Creek Boarding School, and his life becomes the opposite of
safe. Because down the hall is Alaska Young. The gorgeous, clever, funny, sexy,
self-destructive, screwed up, and utterly fascinating Alaska Young. She is an
event unto herself. She pulls Pudge into her world, launches him into the Great
Perhaps, and steals his heart. Then . . . & . . . After. Nothing is ever the same.
(This is
SUCH a good book: likable but flawed characters, interesting and poignant plot,
and the writing is phenomenal. It's targeted at young adults, but I'm a senior and I absolutely adore this book. It's always the first
recommendation I make when people ask me what books to read. - Mary Hudson)
Jane Austen Book Club- Pride and Prejudice
Sutherland Library Thursday, 21 March at 10.30am.
Sutherland Library, Tuesday, 19th March, at 6.30pm.
For more information or to register your interest, please call Monique on 9710 0295.
Can't get enough of Pride and Prejudice? Neither can these authors!
Try a sequel, prequel, even a contemporary re-telling, all inspired by this timeless tale.
Add some zombies...
Pride and prejudice and Zombies: the classic Regency romance -- now with ultraviolent zombie mayhem! by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith.
Pride and Prejudice and zombies: Dawn of the dreadfuls the series by Steve Hockensmith
Or vampires!
Vampire Darcy's desire by Regina Jeffers
Try a series...
The Pemberly chronicles by Rebecca Anne Collins
Or a stand alone book.
Death comes to Pemberley by P.D James
Austenland by Shannon Hale
The independence of Miss Mary Bennet by Colleen McCullough
Some Non fiction...
Happily ever after: Celebrating Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice by Susannah Fullerton
A Dance with Jane Austen by Susannah Fullerton.
Why not watch...
Pride and Prejudice Movies and mini series adaptations.
Have you discovered the very amusing Lizzie Bennet Diaries web series?
For a complete list of related reading, both fiction and non fiction, simply type Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice into the search box in the Library catalogue.
March - EcoReads for Kiddies
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| Clean-up Australia Day - Sunday March 3rd 2013 |
In the bin by Kellie Bollard
All through the week we fill our bins with dirty, old and broken things. But ... where does it all go? Where does it end up? Find out in this fun and informative rhyming story about bins, recycling and all things rubbish.
by Ellie Bethell
Just in time! Michael Recycle tells us about the adventures of a young superhero whose power allows him to teach people about recycling. After cleaning up a town, the people declare: 'To Michael Recycle! The green-caped crusader, our super-green hero, the planet's new saviour!' Teach your kids about recycling!
'Dougal was a shy little bear with a heart of gold. He never got to play with the other toys in the house because they were all new and clean and perfect and he was not. He often wished he could be new like them...' Then, one rainy afternoon, Dougal is left outside and ends up in the garbage bin. How much can a teddy bear? But even though he's down, Dougal is not out. He finds a new life and learns that sometimes bad luck can be your best friend. Based on a true story, with photos taken by someone who was there, Dougal the Garbage Dump Bear is a heart-warming and hilarious picture book for all the family - an absolute gem.
Litterbug Doug by Ellie Bethell Litterbug Doug lives on a hill, just outside a beautiful town. His home is an absolute dump, with rubbish strewn everywhere, rats scurrying through the mess, and he won't tidy up his bloomin' bedroom. It's disgusting. Utterly utterly disgusting. His mess spreads and spreads and spreads and spreads. Thankfully, Michael Recycle is on hand to teach Doug the error of his ways. Yep, Michael Recycle returns and now he really has a tough job on his hands!Quote: The case for recycling is strong. The bottom line is clear. Recycling requires a trivial amount of our time. Recycling saves money and reduces pollution. Recycling creates more jobs than land-filling or incineration. And a largely ignored but very important consideration, recycling reduces our need to dump our garbage in someone else's backyard.
-- David Morris of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance
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