Ms. Nancy’s Library Blog

I always read through the Top 10 book lists, and this one jumped off the page at me (updated 11/27/09). Read through the descriptions. What does it say about today’s society — and our world — that these are the top picks?
Food for thought.
Best,
Ms. Nancy
1 CATCHING FIRE, by Suzanne Collins. (Scholastic, $17.99.) The protagonist of “The [...]

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Dear students and teachers,
Let’s not do the full Oregon Battle of the Books this year, with buzzers and bells and a full-on competition. I’d like to keep it simple. I was thinking… how about for those students (and staff) who are interested, we read as many of the books from the lists as we can?
I [...]

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“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” — George Bernard Shaw, writer, Nobel laureate (1856-1950)
Reading:
“Tales of Ancient Greece” (Enid Blyton)
“Smitten: A Kitten’s Guide to Happiness” (Rachael Hale)
“I Will Never Not Ever Eat a Tomato” (Lauren Child)

“Good Morning, Gorillas” (Magic Tree House #26, Mary Pope Osborne. The series is up to #42 [...]

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A better question would be: What are we not reading at my house this week? The list might be shorter. I have always been in the habit of reading between three to five books at a time. If I find a book that I really love, I read it straight through and ignore the other [...]

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Check here for list upon list of titles.
Happy reading!
– Ms. Nancy

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“The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity…” — A. Edward Newton
What are we reading at my house? “Twilight” (Stephenie Meyer wrote the story behind Twilight, and you will also find a draft of “Midnight Sun,” the fifth book in the series), and the “Magic [...]

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Courtesy of our own Multnomah County Library:
Abracadabra! Magic with Mouse and Mole (Herbert Yee Wong)
The Best Chef in Second Grade (Katharine Kenah)
Big Brave Brian (M.P. Robertson)
Big Cats: Hunters of the Night (Elaine Landau)
A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever (Marla Frazee)
Goose and Duck (Jean Craighead George)
Heavy Equipment Up Close (Andra Serlin Abramson)
Jabberwocky (Lewis [...]

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“…do not grasp at the stars, but do life’s plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life.”

– Robert Louis Stevenson
A teacher friend of mine gave me a book list — it’s titled “The Best Books for Reluctant Readers,” but I think it should just [...]

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Good story on libraries by the Oregonian’s Kimberly Melton in today’s online version of the newspaper.
Also check out the new Oregon Authors website, produced by the Oregon Library Association and the Oregon Center for the Book.

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Are you interested in more from the author of “Coraline”? Neil Gaiman recently won the 2009 John Newbery Medal for his most recent book, “The Graveyard Book” (illustrated by Dave McKean and published by HarperCollins Children’s Books). The winner of the 2009 Caldecott Award is “The House in the Night,” illustrated by Beth Krommes, written [...]

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