News From the Library
"Check" These Out at the CKS Library!
First grade students will love Penguins! by Gail Gibbons, which describes the habitat, physical characteristics, and behavior of different kinds of penguins. The illustrations are charming and the students are familiar with the author.
To augment our biography section and increase selections for our third graders, we've added Amelia Earhart: Young Aviator, Molly Pitcher: Young Patriot, Harry Houdini, and Good-bye Charles Lindbergh.
For our upper level students, the fiction section now includes, The Boy Who Spoke Dog by Morgan Clay, Lee Jeffrey's True Blue: A Novel, Aleutian Sparrow by award winner Karen Hesse, Colder Than Ice by David Patneaude, and Kevin Henke's 2004 Newbery Award honor selection, Olive's Ocean.
Our younger readers will soon be able to borrow, Mrs. Chicken and the Hungry Crododile by local author Won-ldy Paye, Caralyn Buehner's Snowmen at Night, and Diary of a Worm (written by the author of Click, Clack Moo: Cows That Type, Doreen Cronin).
If you were looking for gifts for your favorite reader, any of these books would surely please!
Librarian's Picks
2004 Caldecott Award, winner The Man Who Walked Between Two Towers by Mordicai Gerstein. The ink and oil illustrations are lovely and capture the drama of Philippe Petit's feat.
George Washington's Teeth by Deborah Chandra, is a humorous look at our first presidents' lifelong struggle with bad teeth.
Kathryn Lasky's The Man Who Made Time Travel is a non-fiction work that describes the need for sailors to be able to determine their position at sea and the efforts of John Harrison, an eighteenth century man who spent his life refining instruments to enable them to do this.
Our entire CKS family is invited to borrow materials from our library or just drop in for a few minutes and browse.