Why not ask for a book in your christmas stocking?

Not sure what to read next? Follow the link for some great book ideas! http://www.lovereading4kids.co.uk/

 

Is Santa Claus Coming?

Follow the link below to enjoy some Christmas activities and learn some interesting facts about Santa!Take a look each day to receive updates from the North Pole../www.noradsanta.org/

Think you know about The Hobbit?

Follow this link and try the quiz...
http://www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site/quiz/2013/dec/11/hobbit-book-tolkien-quiz

Robin Etherington's top 10 comic books

Robin Etherington is one half of the Etherington Brothers and has been producing original comic material  since 2003. The brothers are the creative team behind Malcolm Magic, Monkey Nuts, Baggage, Tusk, and Walace and Gromit. Find out more at:

www.theetheringtonbrothers.blogspot.com

To see Robin's top 10 comic books, go to:
http://www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site/2013/nov/28/robin-etherington-top-10-comic-books

Is something puzzling you?

Ever wondered.... How far away is space? Why can't I tickle myself? What makes me?  This book gathers over 100 real questions from children and puts them to some of our best-loved and most knowledgeable experts.

The Company of Ghosts

As the colder, darker nights are upon us, how about a mysterious ghost story to curl up with by the fire?
Award-winning Berlie Doherty tells this romantic ghost story set on a wild and uninhabited island.  Ellie is swept off to an island belonging to a family she hardly knows while she is struggling to come to terms with her parents’ divorce.  Here she meets a ghostly girl who changes the way Ellie thinks about the past,  present and future...

Look Into My Eyes....

'Look Into My Eyes' is just one of the books in the brilliant 'Ruby Redfort' series by Lauren Child.  Learn more about the books at www.rubyredfort.com and see Lauren talking about the series in this clip.

Red House Book Awards

Children have been reading and reviewing books all year long.  Follow the link below to see their favourite ten. Now you can help choose a winner.

Your vote is all important, so vote today and have a say in who gets crowned winner of the Red House Children's Book Award 2014!

http://www.redhousechildrensbookaward.co.uk/shortlist/index

Hard Luck - the new Wimpy Kid book is coming soon!

Greg Heffley is feeling miserable. His best friend, Rowley Jefferson, has ditched him, so to change his fortunes he decides to leave things to chance. Will a roll of the dice turn things around?

The 100 best books for children

To celebrate Children's Book Week with Amazon Kindle,  Booktrust have published a list of what they believe are the 100 best books for children - and now they are asking you to help them decide the nation's favourites! Cast your vote and have your say by following the link below.


http://www.booktrust.org.uk/programmes/primary/childrens-book-week/100-best-books/

A new read from the brilliant David Walliams

Darkness had come to the town. Strange things were happening in the dead of night. Children would put a tooth under their pillow for the tooth fairy, but in the morning they would wake up to find… a dead slug; a live spider; hundreds of earwigs creeping and crawling beneath their pillow.
Evil was at work. But who or what was behind it…?

Back to School...

 

 

Enjoying the start of the new school year or still dreaming of those long summer holidays?  Why not click on the link below and see what you know about school life in books?

http://www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site/quiz/2013/aug/30/back-to-school-quiz

Follow the link below to read the first chapter of the new novel for teen readers, 'More Than This' by Patrick Ness.

A boy called Seth drowns, but then he wakes.  How is that possible? He remembers dying, so how is he  here?  Seth begins a search for answers, hoping that he might not be alone, that this might not be the hell he fears it to be, that there might be more than just this...

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Read the first chapter here:
http://www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site/interactive/2013/sep/05/teen-book-club-extract-more-than-this-patrick-ness

Happy holidays and happy reading!

Noble Conflict

Book Domino Chain

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Carnegie Greenaway award winners 2013










Congratulations to Levi Pinfold and Sally Gardner, winners of the Carnegie Greenaway awards 2013.

Blood Tracks

Newly released this month is Blood Tracks by Paula Rawsthorne. Gina is a runner. With her feet pounding the ground and her dad watching, she feels as though she can fly. But when her dad dies in dramatic circumstances, Gina refuses to accept the explanations she is given. Struggling to find the truth, Gina finds herself plunged into a world far removed from the one she has known; a world of lies, crime and betrayal. A world that will make her question everyone and everything around her. A world she can't run from.

The World of Norm

 Norm’s life seems to have gone badly wrong and we learn all about it in this series of books.  How Norm gets through the ups and many downs of his life is a rollercoaster of laughs.
If you like the Diary of a Wimpy Kid books, you'll love The World of Norm  series!

New Children's Laureate Announced

Malorie Blackman, the author of the Noughts and Crosses series and many other teen novels is the new children's laureate, taking over from Julia Donaldson.In her acceptance speech  Malorie outlined some of the things she has lined up for her two years as laureate. Her main aim is to "get more children reading more" and she's keen to promote diverse genres and forms as she's a big fan of comics and graphic novels so she'll be highlighting those, as well as short stories. She's also a huge supporter of libraries and wants to make sure that every kid in the country has a library ticket.

Why not drop into the library and borrow Noughts and Crosses, one of her most brilliant books!

Welsh Book Award for Daniel Morden

The Welsh Books Council has announced that Daniel Morden,
who visited Newport High School to tell stories earlier this year, 
has won the 2013 Tir na n-Og English Award for his collection of stories
Tree of Leaf and Flame (Pont Books).

'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' by Jeff Kinney has been voted the Best Children's Book of the Last 10 Years by Blue Peter fans.

Greg Heffley is a normal American kid, albeit one with a habit of getting into (and out of) trouble. His diary, complete with hilarious cartoons, records a year in his life and follows his relationships with his nerdy best friend Rowley, annoying brothers Roderick and Manny and long-suffering parents.

Why not come along to the LRC and read one of the Wimpy Kid series?

Spring has sprung!

Spring has finally arrived! Why not try this quiz to see what you know about springtime in some of your favourite stories?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/childrens-books-site/quiz/2013/apr/25/spring-has-finally-sprung-quiz

In book club we are reading....

Boys Don't Cry by Malorie Blackman

You're about to receive your A-level results and are planning to go to university and then become a journalist, but the day they arrive your old girlfriend Kendra turns up unexpectedly with a baby. At first, you assume Kendra's looking after the baby for a friend but she tells you it is her baby.  She asks you to mind the baby while she pops out.  However, there is one problem - she doesn't come back....
Look out for our reviews of this book in the LRC soon!

Another Carnegie Book Award shortlist title...

'My name is August. I won't describe what I look like. Whatever you're thinking, it's probably worse.'

Auggie wants to be an ordinary ten-year-old. Born with a terrible facial abnormality, Auggie has been home-schooled his whole life but now he's going to a real school - and he's dreading it.

WONDER is a really moving story that will make you laugh and cry.

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Can You Go Screen Free?

 

Book trailer - 'Itch Rocks' by Simon Mayo

Carnegie Shortlist ....one of the contenders for the Carnegie Medal

Charlie Higson: How do you build suspense and plant clues?

Follow the link below to see Charlie Higson explaining how you can make your own stories full of excitement and suspense.

http://www.worldbookday.com/storycrafts/charlie-higson/

Happy World Book Day!
Go to www.worldbookday.com for lots of info and fun activities.
If you haven't had your World Book Day token by the end of the day, come to the LRC to pick one up!

Do you enjoy story writing?

Calling sIxth form readers!

World Book Day is coming……Here are some recommended websites for young adult readers from the World Book Day website:
SPINEBREAKERS (PENGUIN) http://www.spinebreakers.co.uk/
TOTALLY RANDOM BOOKS (RANDOM HOUSE) www.totallyrandombooks.co.uk
UNDER COVER READS (WALKER) www.undercoverreads.com
MY KINDA BOOK (PAN MACMILLAN) www.mykindabook.com
All of these sites will give you information about the newest, just published books!

A great read for older teenagers...

Get writing!

Follow the link below to read local teen author Beth Reekles'  advice to other budding authors on how to get published!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/childrens-books-site/2013/jan/23/top-tips-beth-reekles

Tall Tales!

We all really enjoyed the stories Daniel Morden shared with us during his visit to us on Monday - they were fantastic!  It was great to relax and be transported to another world full of mysterious happenings and colourful characters.
Why not come along to the library and read some myths and legends for yourself? 
We would like to thank Daniel for joining us on such a snowy, frosty day and look forward to arranging a return visit soon.

Daniel Morden

On Monday 21 January, Daniel Morden wil be visiting our library to tell some stories to Year 7.  Daniel  has travelled the world as a professional storyteller. He says:
"When I was young, children could walk to school by themselves. Every day as I walked I would make up a story, about myself, or Spiderman, or the Viking God Thor, or some strange character I had invented. When I reached school, if I hadn't finished the story I would walk around the playground, muttering it under my breath. I had to know how the story ended, even though I was making it up."
In 2007 he won the Tir na n-Og Award for 'Dark Tales from the Woods'. His latest publication is 'Tree of Leaf and Flame', published by Pont Books in 2012.
We are really looking forward to hearing some great stories on Monday!

Blue Peter Book Awards 2013

The shortlist for the Blue Peter Book Awards 2013 has been announced:

 

The Boy Who Swam with Piranhas

 

 

Hero on a Bicycle 

 

Tom Gates - Genius Ideas(Mostly)

 

Horrible Histories:House of Horrors

Walter Tull's Scrapbook

 

Fantastic Mr Dahl

Look out for the winners in a special broadcast on World Book Day on 7 March!