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Snapped in the library Week 9 Term 2.

National Simultaneous Story Time is coming up soon and we have our copies of Pete the Sheep ready.  We love this book because Bruce Whatley is one of our favourite illustrators and everything Jackie French writes is great! (We’ve even named one of the library table groups (the Frenchies) after her!!)

Just before recess on Wednesday May 27th, all our junior classes will read and enjoy the book, along with thousands of other children all over Australia.

My favourite book is ‘The Witches’ by Roald Dahl. I really like it because it is very funny and a bit scary. My favourite character is The Grand High Witch because she was one of the main characters and she was very funny.The Grand high witch is bad instead of being good.

These are some of the mean things the Grand High Witch does:

1-kidnaps children

2- kills them

3-somtimes kills witches

This story is a fiction book,which means it is not a true book.     

So I hope that you have fun reading Roald Dahl books!!!!!!

It’s not just students doing Reading Challenges at MPPS, this year the teachers are joining in too.  They read longer books, so their challenge is to read 5 books before August 31st.

Teachers doing the challenge are: Mrs Gill, Mrs Walters, Mrs Grenfell, Mrs Hamblin, Mrs Huinink, Mrs Cavedon, Mrs Garrett, Ms Evans, Ms Spychalla, Ms Wall, Mrs Fisher, Mrs Scott, Mrs Hardy, Ms McKenna, Mrs McInerney, Mr Myors, Mrs Ordish, Miss Hill, Mrs Fricke, Mr Van Breda and Ms Alderton.

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Lisa Hill, Director of Curriculum and Librarian.

Rascal’s Trick is a book by Paul Jennings.  It is about a big bad cat called Rascal who eats all of the pet’s food.

By Chris K

Thanks to Mrs C for helping with the laptop!

Rascal’s Trick is a book by Paul Jennings.  It is about a big bad cat called Rascal who eats all of the pet’s food.

Snapped in the library on March 24th, 2009

After school on Thursday, I went to Black Dog Books in Fitzroy to hear about some beaut new books about history. I bought some (of course!) because I love history, but I also found some really nice ones about horses by Bernadette Kelly. They are from the Pony Patch series and they’re about a very naughty horse called Norton. So I bought those too, and then sat down to hear the speakers. Imagine my surprise when a lady sat down next to me and it was the author! Bernadette is a really nice lady who loves horses and she autographed our books!

If you love Saddle Club and Pony Tails, you’ll love these funny books as well.  Miss Kara and I will get them covered as quickly as we can and then you can borrow them.  They will be on the Fiction K shelf when they’re done.

By Miss Hill

This week, we’ve been reading Premier’s Reading Challenge books and other books from the Endeavour Hills library. Here’s what we think about them:

Lost Underground Written by Keira Wong

Lost Underground is a good book for children who want to know about adventures. It is a book about taking portals to another world to explore nice areas. Molly and James the humans in the story take a portal to Halycrus a world of Halycrusians and there they meet B-roc, K-la and Z-koo. They become friends and explore around the world of Halycrus and find a cave where they enter. It’s a good book to read for years 3, 4 and 5. If you read this book you’ll see the great adventures they have. Lost Underground is a graphic vovel with the illustrations by Douglas Fong.

 By Emma 6LO

UNCOLLECTED By Paul Jennings

Uncollected by Paul Jennings has three books inside, in each book it has more than eight stories. The stories are funny and very interesting. It is a great book for people who have a wonderful imagination. I think Uncollected is a great book for all ages because most of the stories have interesting mysteries that you need to keep reading to find out how or when they solve them. One of the stories in the book is called Cow - Dung Custard. This story is about a kid whose father grows vegetables in his back yard but uses manure to help the vegetables grow big and very juicy. But the problem with that was that the manure stunk so badly that every one in the neighborhood could smell it. Another problem with that was that the smell would attract the flies. At the kid’s school all the kids called him Cow-Dung Custard because of what his back yard smelt like.

By Raihana

Nanobots Rampage    Author: Paul Collins      Illustrated: Matt Lin

 This book is about two special kids who were going through great danger. They had to run away from the Nanobots which were chasing them. It’s in graphics and it is fun looking at pictures without reading. Anyone who ever reads it will love to read it again.The Nanobots made the things in the museum come alive. The children find the EXIT, but then the Nanobots finally caught them. Then the kids saw the professor who had made the Nanobots. They told the Professor that ‘Because of you we are in trouble.’

That’s most of it - you can read the rest of it yourself.

By Aakash 

Summer School Zombies

Summer school zombies is a good book to read for children in years 4 and 3. These are some of the characters in the story: there is Trevor, Filbert, Dwayne, and alien monster and the zombies. A boy is sent to summer school because he gets bad grades and he said it was it his mum’s fault.

I think people should read the book.  It’s by Scott Nickel and it’s illustrated by Matt Luxich. 

By Dev.