Everyone is wondering when spring will come especially after having an actual snow day here on Jeju Island! Time to go and ask a groundhog. I wonder what he will say?
The fourth picture book nominated for this year's Morning Calm Medal is Memoirs of a Hamster written by Devin Scillian.
"Night 1 / My life is perfect. / I have a bowl full of seeds, a cozy pile of wood shavings, and room to run. / I'm never leaving here. / Question: Who's the luckiest hamster in the world? / Answer: ME!
Seymour the hamster has the perfect life. He has a spacious cage, a constant food supply, and a FuzzyBoy 360 exercise wheel that lets him run to his heart's content. Life could not be better. Or could it? When Pearl the cat tells Seymour of the goodies beyond the safe confines of his cage, he starts to think he's missing out. And out is the new in! It's only after Seymour is out of his cage that he begins to fully appreciate his safe and cozy home."
- Amazon description
Devin Scillian is an award-winning author and Emmy award-winning broadcast journalist. He has written more than 10 books with Sleeping Bear Press, including the best-selling A is for America: An American Alphabet, Brewster the Rooster,Johnny Kaw and Memoirs of a Hamster. Devin lives in Michigan and anchors the news for WDIV-TV in Detroit.
- Sleeping Bear Press description
Visit the author's website at http://devinscillian.com
Visit the illustrator's website at http://www.timbowers.com
To learn more about hamsters, visit http://easyscienceforkids.com/all-about-hamsters/
And remember Setmour's lessons... "The grass is not always greener on the other side." "Be thankful for what you have." "If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is." "There's no place like home."
B is for Biographies A biography is the true account of a person's life written by someone else.
(Look in 921 or B)
Biographies include everything we would want to know about a person - their name, birth, death, accomplishments, interesting facts and pictures.
Question: How do we find biographies we are interested in reading? Answer: We look under the subject's last name.
An autobiography is when someone writes about his/her own life. (Look in 921 or B)
A collective biography is a book containing true life accounts of many people.
(Look in 920) The author's last name will be on the address.
This week in library, we read Martin's Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.by Doreen Rappapo. It is a powerful story about how one person's dream can change society.
"Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin, but by the content of their character."
Besides our books, our online encyclopedia (WorldBook), our online magazine database (EBSCO), and our kid friendly search engine (WebPath Express), you could check out these websites for more biographical information...
Do you like science? Have you read Frank Einstein yet?
"Frank Einstein loves figuring out how the world works by creating household contraptions that are part science, part imagination, and definitely unusual. After an uneventful experiment in his garage-lab, a lightning storm and flash of electricity bring Frank’s inventions—the robots Klink and Klank—to life! Not exactly the ideal lab partners, the wisecracking Klink and the overly expressive Klank nonetheless help Frank attempt to perfect his Antimatter Motor . . . until Frank’s archnemesis, T. Edison, steals Klink and Klank for his evil doomsday plan!"
"The most exciting road trip in history begins! In this action-packed, New York Times bestselling adventure, twelve-year-old twins Coke and Pepsi McDonald embark on a family vacation you'll have to read to believe.
With the real-kid humor that has earned Dan Gutman millions of fans around the world, and featuring weird-but-true American tourist destinations, The Genius Files is a one-of-a-kind mix of geography and fun. As Coke and Pepsi dodge nefarious villains from the Pez museum in California all the way to the Infinity Room in Wisconsin, black-and-white photographs and maps put readers right into the action." - (Amazon review)
You can visit Dan Gutman's official website by clicking here.
"For fans of the hilarious Diary of a Wimpy Kid series: Get ready to meet Big Nate! In the first novel in the New York Times bestselling series, Big Nate is in a class by himself!
Nate knows he’s meant for big things. REALLY big things. But things don’t always go your way just because you’re awesome. Nate barely survives his dad’s toxic oatmeal before rushing off to school—minus his lunch. He body slams the no-nonsense principal. He accidentally insults his least favorite teacher, the horrifying Mrs. Godfrey (aka Godzilla). And school has barely started!
Trouble always seems to find him, but Nate keeps his cool. He knows he’s destined for greatness. A fortune cookie told him so.
Here comes BIG NATE, accidental mischief maker and definitely NOT the teacher’s pet."
- (Amazon review)
Click here to visit the official Big Nate website for more reading fun!
Do you want to try and draw Big Nate yourself? Watch this short video to learn how.
"The first day at a new school is always the hardest, right? No, not always as George finds out the hard way. On the second day at…Sugarman Elementary School, he is suddenly seized by uncontrollable burps, burps so loud they practically break the sound barrier, burps that make him do wild and crazy stuff and land him in trouble with a capital T. One thing is for sure: these are not normal burps, they are magic burps—and they must be stopped!
But how?" - (Amazon review)
Click here to visit the official website for more George Brown adventures.
