Read Print

Read Print is a site that offers you more than 80,000 titles online that you can read for free and with a wide range of authors including my personal favourite - Agatha Christie. It's perfect for reading a book online.

Have a look at see what you can discover.

Want your own 'Twilight' Halloween poster?

You may have noticed these posters in the library:

Well you can download your very own from Craftily Ever After! Catch the witch one here, the Twilight one here and the spider one here.

Hocus Pocus

Hubble, bubble, toil and trouble...

Some witch reads for a spooky Hallowe'en:

Witch Child - Celia Rees
The Witches - Roald Dahl
Jinx - Meg Cabot
Wicked - Gregory Maguire
Macbeth - Shakespeare
Witch Hill - Marcus Sedgwick
Witchfinder - William Hussey
Delilah and the Dark Stuff - Susan Davis
Witch and Wizard - James Patterson

World Largest Book

The Atlas is an impressive 2 meters by 3 meters and only 31 are being made.


How J.K.Rowling plots a story...

The Harry Potter books are full of action and adventure but have you ever wondered how J.K.Rowling planned what was happening when? She used a spreadsheet like this one (can you work out which book it's for?)

Roger McGough

Roger McGough is a poet who's work is funny and clever.

Read more at his webiste or check out one of the books of his poetry fromt he library.

Poetry Display

This display is of photocopied poetry postcards but you can pick up the postcards from the desk now!

Around the School in Poetry

Hopefully your teachers will have shared a poem with you today (to celebrate National Poetry Day) but here are some of ones we suggested:


You can read lots of the others we suggetsed in 'The Very Best of Anon' (you'll find it at 821)

Favourite Poet - Michael Rosen

Michael Rosen is a fantastic poet, enthusiastic and funny!

Listen and watch him reading more of his poems here

Find out more about himand read more of his poems at his webiste here

Personally I love his poem:

Where Broccoil Comes From
Not many people know
that broccoli grows in the armpits
of very big green men
who live in the forest
and brave broccoli cutters
go deep into the forests
and they creep up on the
very big green men.
They wait for the
very big green men
to fall asleep
and the broccoli cutters
get out their
great big broccoli razors
and they shave the
armpits
of the very big green men.
And that’s where broccoli
comes from.
Not many people know that.

Just thought I’d let you know.

Newspaper Blackout Poetry

It's International School Library Month!

Show your love for the library by using it this month!

Children's Book Week

Looking for inspiration? Children's Book Week also covers Teen reads. This year the theme is books from 'around the world' why not try one of these:

Toby Alone
By Timothee de Fombelle

The Book of Everything
By Guus Kuijer

Inkheart
By Cornelia Funke

Where I Belong
By Gillian Cross

Just Like Tomorrow
By Faiza Guene

Poetry Everywhere

Don't fancy reading? Then listen to poems rather than read them.

Try Oor Hamlet  Shakespeare's play retold in Scots by Adam McNaughton

or  you could listen to some of the BBC's Robert Burns readings read by a whole range of famous people.

Or if you don't fancy Scots poetry try the Poetry Foundations collection of animated poems and poets reading.

You can even download a free poetry app for your iPhone!

Mrs Wilson's Top 10 Fantasy Reads You Might Not Have Read

(in no particular order)
1. Blart: The Boy Who Didn't Want To Save The World by Dominic Barker
2. Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb
3. The Belgariad by David Eddings
4. Spook's Apprentice by Joseph Delaney
5. The Princess Bride by William Goldman
6. Sabriel by Garth Nix
7. Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
8. The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor
9. Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
10. The Amazing Maurice and His educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett

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