Happy Pentecost!
Enjoy the humour, wit and clever craziness of our book selection this week,
but first let's get creative with duck tape!
Sunday 24 May 2015
TAPE
IT & MAKE IT
101 Duct Tape Activities
by Richela Fabian Morgan
101 Duct Tape Activities
by Richela Fabian Morgan
For many years a useful item in every household toolbox,duct tape has now taken on a second life as a medium for hobbyists of all ages. This fun-filled book offers dozens of creative ideas and easy-to-follow instructions for using duct tape to make everything from wallets and coin purses to novelty neckties and household decorations. Separate chapters give directions for projects that include—
Duct Tape Accessories, clothing, flowers, animals, skyscrapers and more!
CHICK’S SICK!
by Kyle Newburn
CHICK’S SICK
By Kyle Mewburn
"Sun
sets. Time to rest. Into hen house. Sit on nest." Another hilarious tale
from an award-winning team, this sequel to Duck's Stuck features a sneaky snake
who comes along to help the farm animals solve the problem of why Chick can't
lay an egg - with surprise results!
999 Tadpoles Find a New Home
A sophisticated Picture Book full of energy & absurdity!
“We’ll have to move,” says
Mother, after realizing the pond is too small. But moving a family of 999 young
frogs is fraught with danger! Hungry snakes are crawling through the grass.
Hungry hawks are flying through the sky. A young frog makes a mighty tasty
morsel.
Never underestimate the quick wits of 999 young frogs!
RE-ZOOM
By Istvan Banyai
Re-Zoom resumes, or more accurately,
reprises, the layout and nothing-is-as-it-seems perspective of last season's
Zoom. Featuring detailed drawings this text-free volume opens with a
red-on-blue cave painting that, with the turn of a page, becomes a detail on a
wristwatch. The next spread reveals that the watch belongs to a young man doing
a rubbing of carved hieroglyphs... and so on. To surprise his audience, Banyai
toys not only with spatial relations but with time and with cultures: people in
19th-century garb, admiring an image of Napoleon, turn out to be on a movie
set; a woman in traditional Japanese dress sports a yellow Walkman. There are
nods to the arts as well. The finale-which leaves readers in a subway tunnel...
a clever solution.
Sunday 17 May 2015
The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris
Lessmore
By W E Joyce
The story starts in New Orleans with the
Keaton-like Mr. Morris Lessmore writing a book on the balcony of a hotel. A
menacing storm swirls into town, blowing away houses and street signs, taking
Mr. Lessmore and his unfinished book with it. Lessmore is transported to a land
filled with fluttering novels; a land where he can dedicate his life to filling
his book with the abundance of words
he is now surrounded with.
STUCK
By Oliver Jeffers
We meet a little boy
named Floyd who, one day, winds up with his kite stuck in a tree. The most
logical thing to do, Floyd thinks, is to throw his shoe at it. When that gets
stuck, what’s he to do but throw his other shoe? With each page something, or
someone, new ends up stuck and each character or object is more colourful and
outrageous then the one that came before it. With his “logical” decisions Floyd
takes us on a journey with one objective in mind- to get his kite un-stuck.
Saturday 9 May 2015
PENNY THE PROLIFIC POOING COW
"A cow who has a wee pooing problem.
When the
farmer attempts to take her to the vet much hilarity ensues and in the end we
see that her disability becomes an asset as the farmer is able to sell her poo
as manure and she no longer spends her time alone in her field but has lots of new
friends"
Cloudcatcher
The sun is shining and Mr Bellavista, grower of prize tomatoes, is happy. But when clouds creep over the sun, his outlook darkens. His tomatoes will never ripen, and what’s more, the sky looks a mess.
Mr Bellavista knows exactly what to do – he must catch all the clouds in the sky. And he has a super-duper never-a-problem no-mistakes BRILLIANT way to do it....
Or has he?
A environmental sophisticated picture book.
LISTEN TO THE MOON
The stunning new novel of World War One
from Michael Morpurgo, the nation’s favourite storyteller and multi-million
copy bestseller. May, 1915. Alfie and his fisherman father find a girl on an
uninhabited island in the Scillies - injured, thirsty, lost…and with absolutely
no memory of who she is, or how she came to be there. She can say only one word:
Lucy. Where has she come from? Is she a mermaid, the victim of a German U-boat,
or even - as some islanders suggest - a German spy…?
Tuesday 5 May 2015
POCKET SCIENCE - THE RED BOOK
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A fabulous, pocket-sized guide tackling the mysteries of everyday
things, from nature to science and technology.
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With simple text and colourful pictures, answers questions such as “Why
do people eat?” “Where did dinosaurs go?” “Where does electricity come from?”
and many more.
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Includes simple experiments to do at home, and links to websites with
online activities, experiments and free downloadable pictures.
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