World book day is 3rd March this year, which is next week.

It's the time of year when we celebrate books and reading for pleasure. Every child will be given a £1 book voucher which can be used to buy one of the books published especially for the event. These special books only cost £1 so effectively the book is free. They are available from book shops and supermarkets until 27th March but you will need to be quick as stock soon disappears.

Titles include: Kipper's Visitor

Supertato To The Rescue

Daisy And The Trouble With Jack

The Great Mouse Plot

Welcome To The World Of Norm

Star Wars: Adventures In Wild Space

Harper And The Sea Of Secrets

The Boy Who Could Do As He Liked

The vouchers can also be used as a £1 discount against any other book with a purchase price of £2.99.

As usual a book fair will be held in school it will arrive on World Book Day itself, 3rd March and will be collected on 9th March. It will be open in the Junior hall daily after school. The voucher can also be used as a discount against any of the books on the shelves.

In conjunction with the book fair a competition will be held to design a book mark. Each child will be given a book mark to decorate and create their designs on. Book marks need to be completed by end of school on Friday 4th March so that judging can take place. One lucky winner will be chosen from each year group they will be able to choose a book from the book fair as their prize.

In addition children and staff can dress up as their favourite villain.

If you would like to find out more information about World Book Day there is a brilliant website to visit:

www.worldbookday.com

Its full of games to play, quizzes to complete, details of new books, short videos featuring various authors talking about their work and much more.
 

Goosebumps

To coincide with the release of the movie Goosebumps, at the cinema, an up to date set of the books written by R.L.Stine have been published. There are sixteen in total. Read them if you dare!!

David Walliams

It's the start of a new term. a new year and a new decade. This term our focus author is David Walliams. He has been described by many people as 'the fastest growing children's author in the UK' as well as 'the new Roald Dahl'. All of his books are available to borrow from the Library. Read on to discover interesting facts about the man himself.

He was born on 20th August 1971. He changed his surname to Walliams when he became an actor.

The public know him for being a TV personality, actor, comedian and more recently an author. He is a judge on Britain’s Got Talent and is famous for his humour on the show. He has written and starred in two TV series where he played a chemistry teacher.

David is a great supporter of Comic Relief and has been made an honorary trustee of the charity. One of his most famous fund raising events was to swim the River Thames which is 140 miles long!! This event alone raised over 2 million pounds. Last year he chose an easier challenge and wrote a book called The Queen’s Orang-Utan and donated all profits to the charity.

He began writing children’s books in 2008 his first novel was called The Boy in the Dress. Since then he has written another seven books for children aged nine and over and four picture books for younger readers. His books have sold over 4 million copies worldwide with five of them being made into films. His most successful book, Gangsta Granny, is currently being adapted for theatre.


If you are a David Walliams fan take look at his website

www.worldofdavidwalliams.com

It’s great fun filled with surprises, information and even a game of scrabble.

War Story Reading Challenge

The war story reading challenge has finished and 'victory medals' were awarded in celebration assembly this morning. Congratulations to all of the children who completed the challenge and a big thank you to everyone else who took part. This year 17 children completed the challenge compared to 3 last year.

Christmas Stories

It's not long until Christmas now. To get you in the festive spirit, for this wonderful time of year, why not browse the collection of Christmas stories available for you to borrow? There are numerous heart-warming stories, Christmas poetry and origami as well as the traditional Christmas story.

Happy reading.

Reading Challenge

The war story reading challenge is proving to be very popular, two children have already completed it. There is still time for you to take part. The challenge is to read three war stories before the end of November, there is a mixture of information and fiction books for you to choose from. As these books are library books they can only be borrowed and returned during your library time.

'Wow Facts'

There is a collection of new books in the Quick Read section in the Library called 'Wow Facts'. Each title is full of facts, illustrations and photographs and all of them have short chapters.
Titles include:

Special Forces

Catching Dragons

Dare Devils

Midfield Heroes

James Bond
How To Make A Mummy
Sharks

There are 30 books on a wide range range of subjects, all of them are information books.