Toddler Time

On Thursday we gave a big warm welcome to Hinuera and Te Poi play centres. It was fantastic to see so many bright, enthusiastic and cheery people.Children and adults came along dresed-up as either their favourite book character or animal. We had such a variety with the 'cat in the hat', princesses, jockey, pirates, a bunny, butterfly, miss Muffet and the Fat Controller.

Songs, stories and action rhymes reflected the theme and everyone had great fun.

Toddler Time sessions are held each week @ 11am on a Thursday for anyone wishing to come along. Reading is a fundamental skill which everyone must have, so why not start at an early age by coming along and help develop those life-time reading habits.

Elegy directed by Isabel Coixet

The word elegy means: a mournful poem or song, a lament for the dead. This is a beautiful art film based on the Pulitzer Prize-winner novel 'The dying animal' by Philip Roth. What starts out as desire, possession and lust turns into a most unlikely love story. A New York college professor who fills his time with art, music and literature becomes captivated by the beauty of a young college student. Not only is she physically beautiful but her heart and mind match. Elegy charts their intimate relationship and their transformation as people as their love develops, a love which is incapable of being erased. ' Beauty is what you see, love is what you don't see coming'.
Why the title? I think the end of the film explains this rather well.

Winnie the witch

The original author of Winnie the witch was Valerie Thomas, an Australian teacher who has travelled most of the world on a broomstick. She too has a black cat just like Wilbur. Korky Paul is the illustarator, born in Zimbabwe, studied fine arts and now lives in Oxford, England. Laura Owen is the present author of Winnie and has managed rather well to capture and maintain the humour started by Valerie 20 years ago.
'Winnie's Book Day' is a must read for all book and library lovers. It's funny and zany whilst promoting books. It is book week and the story teller is unable to turn-up at school.Winnie has been asked to read to the 'little extraordinaries' instead. Of course Winnie can not read but that does not stop her using books and her magic wand to entertain the little extraordinaries.
Abracadabra see what you will find.

October 2010

Hi there to our regular readers and to those who have just discovered us. For the regulars, you will have noticed that there were no entries for the month of September. It was a busy month. The APNK [ Aotearoa people's network] has now been installed in the library which means the public has free use of the internet and a wealth of educational data bases as well as access to a variety of programmes: come and make a film, use skype, view your photos and much more. Come and explore the available resources.

Toddler time will recommence on Thursday 14th October {first thursday of the new term} with some new songs, stories and rhymes. Alison is away for this first week so it will be Elaine taking the session. Tell your friends and come along for half an hour of fun.

The first book club evening for October met today and people appear to be enjoying this. A small entusiastic bunch get together once a fortnight to talk about books. Anyone is welcome to come along and join in.