The most beautiful words this week that slipped past my lips were "book fair is a wrap!" Boy, am I glad that book fair is over and done. I was really dragging by the last few days. This week was midterms for many university students so I didn't have my usual volunteers to help with hold Book Fair Game Day. The kids were disappointed but were great about understanding how hard it is to run a book fair. We have our book fair traditions. 4th graders run my All for Books program and 5th graders get to be Cliffords each morning and during classes. It's a pretty big deal.
Like most librarians, I know the value of book fair read alouds in driving up sales. Here were the favorite books this week:
Audiobook I have been enjoying while I drive:
Fire by Kristin Cashore Book # 2 in The Graceling series
Enter the Graceling Realm here
Although I do not think this would be an appropriate choice for my elementary school library because of the suggestive sexual content,
I have been enjoying the Graceling series. I admire the strong characters-Katsa and Fire in the first two books and look forward to reading Bitterblue. At the end of hard day of work, my exhaustion slips away when I turn on my ignition and I hear the story pick up where it left off from the day before. I find myself hoping for traffic jams and long red lights.
Happy reading. Enjoy your spring break if it's this week.
Ahhh, yes, we finished up Book Fair week about a month ago. While I love doing book talks, it is nice to be done :) I have Graceling on my TBR 2014 list… hoping to get to it sooner than later!
ReplyDeleteI am packing up the book fair and listening to Fire on audio. The school is off for Spring Break so there are no students or teachers around. I work for the university where our elem/middle school is housed so I have to working most of the week.
DeleteHmmm. perhaps this would not be appropriate for my sixth graders, either?
ReplyDeleteGraceling and Fire have sexual encounters in them.
DeleteI thought Snatchabook was so adorable. Smile, Pout-Pout Fish looks really cute.
ReplyDeleteBoth books are wonderful.
DeleteHi Julee! Congratulations on the book fair, I'm sure it was a resounding success. I love how Mr Tiger takes up the greatest space here - well-deserved, being the winner of the Cybils Fiction Picture Book for 2013! Woohoo! :)
ReplyDeleteI love the importance of the illustrations in Mr. Tiger Goes Wild. Under the dust cover was a gorgeous surprise.
DeleteHurray for Mr. Tiger! I read the entire Graceling series. The first title was my favourite but all held my attention. Glad to see Snatchabook here Beautiful book to own.
ReplyDeleteYes, Snatchabook is a remarkable book. I really liked it.
DeleteLove Mr. Tiger! I've read (and adored) Graceling, but still have Fire and Bitterblue on my TBR list
ReplyDeleteI got as far as audio disc #4 and discovered it badly scratched and missed too many chapters. I will have to get the print version I suppose.
DeleteIt was so fun to have the book fair last week! I was tickled pink to witness some of the kids buy books with their own money!! :)
ReplyDeleteI love it when kids work to earn money to buy their own books. Of course as Book Fair chairperson, I also love it when parents spend $$$ on many books. I have a great tip to teach kids a couple of weeks prior to book fair. Since we need to collect tax I teach them this little matra. "For every dollar, bring a dime and you'll have enough every time." Our tax rate is 8.25% but it doesn't rhyme as well They can always donate their extra pennies to All for Books. I have NEVER had to cover tax for a kid since I started teaching that saying.
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