A relatively uneventful month this time around with the February break and use of the school library space. But we’ve bene having a blast with the pupils during breaks and book borrowing times. Our s1-2 pupils have created their own Book group called ‘They Both Read at the End’, inspired by Adam Silvera’s hugely popular Young Adult novel, They Both Die at the End.
Pupil Library Committee – Members of our Pupil Library Committee have been gaining experience of library work through their volunteering as part of their Duke of Edinburgh awards, where they’ve been learning how to process and display new stock. They’re also helping to prepare for the upcoming World Book Day festivities where they’ll be hosting a pop-up library in the Fuel Zone and help with the zine making workshop.
EAL Book Group – Our EAL book group is continuing with the non-fiction book, YouthQuake: 50 Children and Young People Who Shook the World by Tom Adams and Sarah Walsh as part of the Inspiring Lives series by Nosy Crow. In this project, each pupil has selected five inspiring young people that they’d like to learn more about. We research two people per session, looking at their biographies, videos and other online multimedia resources to get a sense of who they are and what they’ve achieved. It leads to some very engaging discussions with the pupils.
February Booklists:
February 2022 Booklists – BookTrust
Best new Children’s Books – Toppsta
Bookbug’s Books of the Month – Scottish Book Trust
Books of the Month – LoveReading4Kids
February Roundup – Love Reading
Book of the Month – Scholastic
Books of the Month – Waterstones
Children’s Book roundup – Guardian
Upcoming events:
African Festival of Emerging Writers (March 17th-19th) – ArifFesti (Cameroon)
British Science Week (March 11th) – British Science Week (UK)
Earth Hour (March 26th) – Earth Hours (International)
International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (March 21st) – United Nations (International)
International Women’s Day (March 8th) – International Women’s Day (International)
Jaipur Literary Festival (March 5th-14th) – Jaipur Lit Fest (India)
LitFest 2022 Mini Children’s Festival (March 11th-12th) – LitFest (UK)
Shakespeare Week (March 21st) – Shakespeare Week (UK)
World Book Day (March 3rd) – World Book Day (International)
World Poetry Day (March 21st) – UNESCO (International)
World Storytelling Day (March 21st) – (International)
Past events:
Alasdair Gray Day (February 25th) – Gray Day (Scotland)
Emirates Literature Festival – (catch up on YouTube) Emirates LitFest (UAE)
International Festival of Children’s and Youth Literature (Catch up on YouTube) – FESTILIJ (Spain)
Jewish Book Wee (February 26th-March 6th) – Jewish Book Week (UK)
Literary Awards & Prizes:
American Indian Youth Literature Award Winners – American Indian Library Association (USA)
Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature Winners – Asian/Pacific American Library Association (USA)
Blue Peter Book Awards Shortlist – BBC/BookTrust (UK)
Bookbug Picture Book prize announced – Scottish Book Trust (Scotland)
Caldecott Medal Winners – American Library Association (USA)
Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Award Long Lists Announced – CILIP (UK)
The Klaus Flugge Prize Long List Announced – Klaus Flugge Prize (UK)
The Laugh Out Loud Book Awards 2022 (the Lollies) – Scholastic (UK)
Prémio Autores/ Authors Awards Winners – Sociedade Portuguesa De Autores (Portugal)
Waterstones Children’s Book Prize Shortlist 2022 – Waterstones (UK)
In the news:
17th Century Buddhist Texts for the Illiterate: how ‘Buddhist Emoji’ made the Sutra Legible for those who couldn’t read – Open Culture
Bologna Children’s Book Fair (March 21-24th) – Bologna Fiere (Italy)
The Book of Kells, has been digitised and put online – Open Culture
Campaign for every Scottish Secondary School to receive a copy of Me and White Supremacy (YA edition) by Layla F Saad successful – Lighthouse Bookshop (Edinburgh, Scotland)
