On the New Books Display this Week

Picture Book:

• "Torty and the Soldier - A Story of a True WWI Survival" by Jennifer BECK; illustrated by Fifi COLSTON
• "The Courageous Quest" by Caspian BUXTON; illustrated by Paul CORNWELL (League in Libraries series)

Fiction Book:

• "The Bad Guys : Episode 8 - Superbad?" by Aaron BLABEY (The Bad Guys series)
• "El Deafo" by Cece BELL 
• "Star Wars : Jedi Academy - The Revenge of the Sis" by Jarret J KROSOCZKA & Amy IGNATOW (Star Wars : Jedi Academy series)
• "Ella and Olivia : The Royal Show" by Yvette POSHOGLIAN; illustrated by Danielle McDONALD (Ella and Olivia series)

Senior Fiction:

• "Illegal" by Eion COLFER & Andrew DONKIN; illustrated by Giovani RIGANO

Non-fiction: 

• "The Science of Buildings : The Sky Scraping Story of Structures" by Alex WOOLF (The Science of series)
• "The Science of Vehicles : The Turbo-Charged Truth about Trucks and Cars" by Roger CANAVAN (The Science of series)

Books versus Films

Great sentiments from Cressida Cowell the 11th Waterstone's Children's Laureate.

"...because books are a kind of transformative magic that offer magical things that films aren’t as good at creating in children: empathy, creativity and intelligence. With a film, things happen out there, in a book it’s happening inside your head, so that’s empathy. Creativity – a book is partly what I say and partly what a reader imagines, whereas films are very bossy, they tell you how things would look and how they would sound. Intelligence is words. Those are the three magical powers, that’s why books have to survive – because, my goodness, we need empathetic intelligent creative people today.”

Quote taken from an interview published in The Guardian HERE

On the New Books Display this Week

Picture Book:

• "The Wolf is Not Invited" by Avril McDONALD; illustrated by Tatiana MININA (Feel Brave Books series)

Fiction Book:

• "Pearlie and Great Aunt Garnet" by Wendy HARMER, illustrated by Gypsy TAYLOR (Pearlie series)
• "Tom Gates : Biscuits, Bands and Very Big Plans" by Liz PICHON (Tom Gates series)
• "FING" by David WALLIAMS, illustrated by Tony ROSS

Senior Fiction:

• "Wings of Fire : The Dragonet Prophecy" by Tui SUTHERLAND (Wings of Fire series)

Non-fiction: 

• "Ants, Bees, Wasps and Termites" by Dr Jen GREEN (Nature Fact File series)
• "Shocking Electricity" by Nick ARNOLD (Horrible Science series)

Browsing: 

• "Where's Wally? In Hollywood" by Martin HANDFORD (Where's Wally? series)
• "Where's Wally? The Wonder Book" by Martin HANDFORD (Where's Wally? series)

Book Fair 2019 - Update

St Brendan's Book Fair has wrapped up for another year. A BIG Thank You to everyone who came along, helping to make it another successful Book Fair we have run. This year book fair sales earned us 40+ free new books for our library collection.

An extra special thank you to the families who purchased a "Red Dot" book for donation to the library - keep a look out for them on the library “New Book Display” over the next few weeks, they'll all have special Book Fair 2019 Donation book plates inside!