Stuck for what to read this summer? Here are some great books to keep you busy: quick-and-silly reads, outdoorsy reads, far-and-wide reads and keep-your-brain-ticking reads! Enjoy!
Stuck for what to read this summer? Here are some great books to keep you busy: quick-and-silly reads, outdoorsy reads, far-and-wide reads and keep-your-brain-ticking reads! Enjoy!
Stuck for what to read this summer? Here are some great books to keep you busy: quick-and-silly reads, outdoorsy reads, far-and-wide reads and keep-your-brain-ticking reads! Enjoy!
Stuck for what to read this summer? Here are some great books to keep you busy: sunshiny reads, outdoorsy reads, far-and-wide reads and keep-your-brain-ticking reads! Enjoy!
School is (nearly) out and there’s no homework
to be done: whatever are you going to do for two months? 😉 Here are a few bookish ideas to try…
Sign up for the Summer Stars programme in your
local library!
It’s free
and open to all children. Register to get your own Summer Stars Reading Card, choose
from lots of exciting library books and get your card stamped for each book
read. Fun rewards will be provided along the way. And at the end of the
programme, the library throws a party! More info.
Meet the Book Doctors!
Don’t worry, it doesn’t involve injections or
anything nasty. The Book Doctor is someone who can give you new book ideas if
you’ve read all of the Wimpy Kid or
all of Harry Potter or all of the Rainbow Magic books and are stuck for
what to pick up next. There are lots of Books Clinics all over Ireland during
the summer, find out where on the Children’s Books Ireland website.
Travel with books!
Are you going anywhere interesting this summer? Or
do you wish to visit a faraway country? Why not look for a book written in that
place? The website Outside In World lists all the kids’ books from around the
world that have been translated into English. Just pick a country on the map
and off you go! More info.
Read it before you see it!
Read the
books that inspired these new feature films: Diary of a Wimpy Kid! Captain
Underpants! Valerian! (You
probably don’t know this last one: it’s a series of awesome French comics about
time-travel and space, highly recommended!)
Write your own book!
Sure, why
not? You can get inspiration from these great books!
We had our last Baby Book Club last week and it was all about diggers. And trucks. And cranes. We read Susan Stegall's wonderful The Diggers Are Coming! and spent ages looking at the brilliant pictures of all the machines and vehicles needed to build new houses. We actually read the book twice!
We then drove our own cars for a while before PAINTING WITH THEM. That's right, we drove our wheels through paint and made some lovely works of art. The babies were interested to see how different cars made different patterns, but mostly they enjoyed doing something that's not allowed everyday!
To finish the year in style (9 sessions in total, which is brilliant for any book club!), we threw a party of tea and juice and glorious toast.
Thank you so much to all the babies and their grown-ups, it's been a brilliant year! To the big boys and girls who will be going to pre-school next year, we'll miss you, so do pop in and say hi if you can!
And before I forget, here are the links, as always.
For an
action-packed day at ‘Digger School’, watch Here Comes A Digger
For our final session of Writing Club with 5th and 6th class, we indulged in our love of monsters and gore.
After a game of picture exquisite corpse (that gave us the delightful Flumpkin among other creatures), we brainstormed about all the monsters we knew about before launching into some serious, detailed character building. Beware the banshee and the lightbulb-eating woman! Coming soon to a haunted house near you...
Well done to all and thanks again for the great stories and the great laughs!
