Tuesday, October 26, 2021

On the New Books Display this Week





Picture Book:

  • "This is the Dog" by Maura FINN; illustrated by Nina RYCROFT
  • "Stupid Carrots" by David CAMPBELL; illustrated by Daron PARTON
      Fiction Book:
      • "Alesha the Acrobat Fairy" by Daisy MEADOWS; illustrated by Georgie RIPPER (Rainbow Magic - Showtime Fairies series
      • "Donut the Destroyer" by Sarah GRALEY & Stef PERKINS
      • "The Bad Guys : Episode 13 - Cut to the Chase" by Aaron BLABEY (Bad Guys series
      • "Pearl the Happy Unicorn" by Sally ODGERS (Pearl the Unicorn series
      • "Surface to Air" by Tom PALMER (Rugby Academy series
      Non-fiction:
      • "Sala's Surprise / Kuso's Clean" by Dahlia MALAEULU; illustrated by Darcy SOLIA
      • "Horses and Ponies" by Caroline STAMPS
      Senior Fiction:
      • "Blue Fire" by Janice HARDY (The Healing Wars series
      • "Secret Army" by Robert MUCHAMORE (Henderson's Boys series



      Wednesday, October 20, 2021

      Mrs Keane Recommends

      Picture Books:


      The Bad Seed by Jory John; illustrated by Pete Oswald





      Mrs Blackhat by Chloe & Mick Inkpen


      Vernon the Penguin by Natashia Curtin


      Another Book About Bears by Laura & Philip Bunting

      Monday, October 18, 2021

      On the New Books Display this Week





      Picture Book:

      • "Another Book About Bears" by Laura BUNTING; illustrated by Philip BUNTING
      • "Float or Sink?" by Kylie COVARK; illustrated by Andrew PLANT
          Fiction Book:
          • "Puppy Diary : A Pawfect Storm" Yvette POSHOLGLIAN; illustrated by Phil JUDD  (Puppy Diary series)
          • "The Werewolf of Fever Swamp" by R.L STINE (Goosebumps series
          • "Return of the Mummy" by R.L STINE (Goosebumps series
          • "Bright Star" by Jenny OLDFIELD
          • "Awesome Friendly Spooky Stories" by Jeff KINNEY (Rowley Jefferson series
          Non-fiction:
          • "Minecraft : Bite-Size Builds" by Thomas McBRIEN 
          • "Isaia Says / Analia Asks" by Dahlia MALAEULU; illustrated by Darcy SOLIA
          Senior Fiction:
          • "This Wonderful Thing" by Adam BARON
          • "Bullet Catcher" by Chris BRADFORD (Bullet Catcher series)



          Wednesday, October 13, 2021

          Draw Some Awesome Competition ...

          If you love drawing, and you love winning stuff, this competition could be just for you!


          To find out all about the competition and how to enter click on the picture or follow the link HERE.
          The competition closes on Friday, 17 December 2021.
           
          Image is from a screen shot from upstartpress.co.nz HERE.


          Monday, October 11, 2021

          Mrs Keane Recommends

          Senior Fiction



          The Warden's Daughter by Jerry Spinelli
          (Family & Relationships)
          Cammie lives in prison, no not as a prisoner, she's the wardens daughter. Cammie has plenty of friends, and some are even her own age and not prisoners. But what Cassis wants most of all is a Mum.

          The Grandest Bookshop in the World by Amelia Mellor
          (Fantasy/Detective & Mystery)
          Pearl and Vally have a lot to figure out, and a lot to do, if they are to save their father and his wonderful bookshop. If  they can't solve the clues in time everything they know and love will be gone and no one will remember they ever existed.

          Winter of Fire by Sheryl Jordan
          (Fantasy)
          In a bleak future world Elsha, chosen as handmaid to the Firelord, shakes up the accepted norms of society. Being from the slave class, known as Quelled, is against all tradition, and, she has a dream to change life for the Quelled, and indeed all of society.

          The Skylark's War by Hilary Mckay
          (Family & Relationships/Historical)
          Clarrie and her brother, Peter, grow up spending the summer holiday's in the countryside at their grandparent's with their free spirited cousin, Rupert. Now it's 1914 and people start to talk of war, soon Rupert enlists in the army, and Carrie wonders, will life ever be the same?

          TimeRiders  by Alex Scarrow
          (Science Fiction)
          Liam, Maddy and Sal have been plucked from certain death by a mysterious man known as Foster. But, their lives, if you can call them that, will never be the same. Now they will be trained as TimeRiders, the police of time, to stop those who travel back in time from destroying the world.


          Wednesday, October 6, 2021

          Books to Movies ...

          Released online in February this year the Disney movie Flora & Ulysses is based on the book of the same name written by Kate Di Camillo.