The World Needs Books!

“The world needs books.” Eight-year-old Madison loves reading and thinks you should too.  This amazing advocate for books was posted on Literacy Online.

"They fuel our minds like cars and gas." Madison is a real inspiration!

Wonder by R.J. Palacio

Wonder is a children's novel written by R.J. Palacio. It was first published by Knopf books in 2012 and has won the Carnegie Medal.

August Pullman has been born with a severe facial deformity which has kept him away from school until now because of operations and because his parents have wanted to protect him.  Now off to school, this is about how he and others deal - and fail to deal - with his differences.

The story is told from the point of view of August and the other people in his life.  "My name is August. I won't describe what I look like. Whatever you're thinking, it's probably worse." We get an inside into the world of the physically disabled and are made to realise that a deformity doesn't change what is on the inside.

"You can't blend in when you were born to stand out." I've seen this saying on posters and didn't realise that it came from this book.  This is a reassuring mantra for anyone who has ever felt left out.

I believe all readers from about nine years to adults will get a lot out of August's story. It is about patience, inner strength, honesty and acceptance.

Read what others say about this book: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23302416-wonder

See the book trailer:

Creating A School-Wide Reading Culture

Love this video which was shared through Literacy Online and the National Library Services to Schools site.

Leave your comments about whether you think these ideas could work at Mokoia Intermediate.  Can you add any thing?

If you were forced to spend the rest of your life in a library...

Love this - you could write a comment about this.  I found this with these other writing prompts.

Ode to the Librarian

Find out what an ode is.  Can you work out what an ode is from this?  Look up odes in the library. Which section of the library could you look in?

 

Kid Snippets: Library

I love this...

Welcome to our blog!

Welcome to the first entry on our new library blog.  Over the next few months we will set this blog up so it can be used by teachers, students and our community.

My name is Mrs Forge and I am the school librarian at Mokoia Intermediate.

We hope to have links to book reviews, library lessons and other great reading sites we find on the net.

We hope you visit here often.