50 Of The Best Kids' Books Published In

The Last 25 Years



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Did you know?

Did you know that the following books are celebrating anniversaries this year?

75 years – Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans

 

 

45 years – The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle

 

 

25 years – The Mitten by Jan Brett

 

 

20 years – Good Night, Gorilla by Peggy Rathmann

 

                      Book clubs

As promised, here are a few suggestions for starting a reading/book club:

1.   You will need members of course. Two to six members would be good but ideally four.

 2.  A place to meet. It could be your house, backyard, the park, local community centre or library.

 3.  A book selection. You could decide all the books your going to read in the first meeting, or simply decide at the end of each book.

 4.  A library card. It would be much better if you could borrow the books instead of buying them.
 
5.  A snack would be great also.
 
6.  And finally a love of reading.

 

These are just a few of the books found on TumbleBooks from the Ottawa Public Library.

 

 

This is a collection of children's books that have been animated and had sound added to them to allow you to read them on-line. No username or password necessary.

So, no time to get to the library? Have access to a computer? You can spend as much time as you like reading great books, playing games, doing quizzes and puzzles.

This service is free and all you need to do is go to:
 
 http://www.tumblebooks.com/library/asp/book_details.asp?Category=Story+Books&isflash=1&offset=40

Today's post will be the first of my new blog section called DID YOU KNOW?


Did you know, that we have 83 Dual-Language books in our Learning Commons?
We do indeed.  They consist of books in the following languages:
Vietnamese
Tamil
Tagalog
Chinese
Mandarin
Bengali
Spanish
French
Arabic


Why not borrow one?
Happy reading:)

Welcome!

Welcome to St-Anthony Catholic Learning Commons Blog

With our School Board's focus on 21st Century Learning, perhaps it's time to start blogging and tweeting.

Join me as I embark on this journey for the first time. Let's see where it takes us. I will write as often as I can about all things "Learning Commons". New books, eBooks, authors and more. I hope that some of you will become avid followers and perhaps even, contributors. I always appreciate your efforts, your engagement and of course, your opinions. I will try to keep you informed about what's happening in our Learning Commons, the OPL and libraries around the world. Isn't it wonderful how small the world really is, now that we have the technology to move us to the farthest, most exotic places on earth?


"Summertime and the livin is easy..." (song by Gearges Gershwin, c1935)

With summer right around the corner it's time to start thinking about warm lazy days curled up with a good book, trips to the Ottawa Public Library, rummaging through piles of used books at Yard Sales (sometimes for .25 cents each) and maybe starting your very own Lending Library with a group of friends.

Of course you will still have access to your DestinyQuest account over the summer months and you could very easily borrow an eBook from the Follettshelf (that's our "virtual" ebookshelf in DestinyQuest). Remember, when you borrow an ebook, you have two weeks to read it and then it will simply disappear from your account. POOF!!!! It's gone, and now you can move onto another.

Perhaps you will even start a Book Club.  You could certainly make good use of your OPL library card, as they have multiple copies of most novels. When you've all read the book, collaborate on Book Review and hand it in to me in September so that I can post it on the Blog

I will post instructions on how to start a Book Club AND a Lending Library in my next post.