This Weeks Author Birthdays & Bookfair Preview

Our school's bookfair will be in 2 weeks.
Items bought at the bookfair help the library get more books for students to check out!

Books to watch for are:

For younger readers-
Fancy Nancy and the Boy from Paris by Jane O'Connor
The Puppy Place: Princess by Ellen Miles
Spiders by Nic Bishop
Lily Brown's Paintings by Angela Johnson; Illustrated by E.B. Lewis (beautiful!)
Other titles
Dinosaur Cove, Planet Earth, Skippyjon Jones in Mummy Trouble, Pokemon, Pirates Don't Change Diapers, Star Wars, Pinkalicious, Camp Rock

For Older Readers-
Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls: Moving Day by Meg Cabot
Marley: A Dog Like No Other by John Grogan
Elijah Of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis (Newberry Winner)
Other Titles
a Crooked Kind of perfect, Deep Dark and Dangerous, Seekers, Listen!, The Missing, Elephant Run, Hannah Montana, Goosebumps

There will be many more titles! A flyer will be coming home next week. THANKS!

This week's author birthdays, interesting facts & wacky holidays include:

21-H.G Wells
Taro Yashima
International Day of Peace

22-Esphyr Slobodkina
1789-US Post Office opened
1862-Abraham Lincoln makes Emancipation Declaration
Dear Diary Day
Hobbit Day
Family Day
Elephant Appreciation day
Narional White Chocolate Day

23-1846-German Astronomer Johann Galle discovers Neptune

24-Jane Curry
Wilson Rawls
Jim Henson
World's 1st toy store opened

25-Shel Silverstein
1971-The game Uno debuted
National Comic Book Day

26-John Chapman (Johnny Appleseed) I'm related!
1887-The Record Player was released.
National Pancake Day

27-Bernard Waber
Paul Goble
R.E.A.D. in America Day
Crush a Can Day