In first day of school packets the library sent home a 1 page information sheet outlining our theme for the year, providing nuts and bolts for the library, begging for volunteers and asking the question, “WHERE did you read this summer?” If you’d like to take a peek at the letter before it arrives in snail mail, here you go!
Monthly Archives: August 2012
In the Stacks
As the school year approaches I thought I’d share a couple of the titles that are in the stack of books on my dresser – my go-to pile of reading material that is constantly changing.
Right now I have Lights on the Nile by Donna Jo Napoli, Lower the Trap by Jessica Scott Kerrin, Kingdom Keepers II by Ridley Pearson, The Rights of the Reader by Pennac, A Repair Kit for Grading by Ken O’Connor, The Family Kitchen Garden by Liebreich, Wagner and Wendland and What Learning Leaves by Taylor Mali.
Through my reading I am planning a winter garden, I was captivated by Kepi, a young Egyptian girl in 2530, struggling to save her family and Daniel Pennac reminded my why reading with our children at Bedtime is so precious: “A sudden truce after the battle of the day, a reunion lifted out of the ordinary…Without realizing it, we were discovering one of the crucial functions of storytelling and, more broadly speaking, of art in general, which is to offer a respite from human struggle.”