Library News | Preparatory School
Welcome to Term 3, this term will be a very exciting and busy term for the Prep Library as we have a number of celebrations:
- Library and Information Week 25-31st July
- Scholastic Book Fair 15-19th August
- Book Week 15-19th August
We hope the students will get involved and join in the fun!
We have 3 competitions running now to celebrate Library and Information Week!
- Recreate a genre bookmark
- Rewrite the classic fairy tale of: The 3 Little Pigs. (fractured fairy tale)
- Reimagine yourself as an inventor: What would you create? (poster)
Enter for your chance to win!
This year, Book Week will be held from Monday 15th to 19th August, this year’s theme is Dreaming with eyes open. Book week is run by the Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) and is a time for celebrating books and Australian children’s authors and illustrators.
It’s time to start thinking about getting your costume organised and ready to go for Book Week!
Below are a few costumes ideas:
- Stories/fairy tales that are about sleep/dreaming
- Alice in Wonderland
- Sleeping Beauty
- Rip van Winkle
- Peter Pan
- BFG
- Snow White
- Dreamtime stories
- Wizard of Oz
- Where the Wild things are
- Harry Potter
- Dr Seuss
You can also find costume ideas here: costume box
Book Review by Mrs Abigail Nel
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid ☆☆☆☆☆
This book has been sitting in my TBR (to be read) pile for far too long. I eventually got round to picking it up and once I started, I couldn’t put it down. Taylor has written an exceptional story that sees Monique, a reporter, work closely with Evelyn Hugo, a huge movie star from the 1950s-80s, to write her biography. Throughout her life, she experiences both the highs and lows of fame with her best friend and 7 husbands. The reasons behind her marriages aren’t always love, but they always get her what she wants! Evelyn is now in her 80s and has a special reason for choosing Monique to write for her, with the twist being unveiled in the last few pages.
