Tuesday 21 May 2013

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).

Tuesday 14 May 2013

'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?

Thursday 9 May 2013

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


Wednesday 1 May 2013

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!