Heather Vogel Frederick Visits Tanglewood!

Mothers and daughters gathered to hear Heather Vogel Frederick, author of the Mother Daughter Book Club Series, discuss her writing process and her book ideas.  Many of our students have read (or they are reading) her novels.  It was a pleasure to get to know her and her writing style.

Thank you Amy Pettitt for all your hard work in planning the event, and thank you to our wonderful PTA for funding this special time!

Round Up for RIF

It is time for the Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo - so that means it is time for RIF (Reading Is Fundamental)!  Preschoolers selected a free RIF book at Kindergarten Round Up on January 31st.  Now it is time for Tanglewood students to Round-Up a Good Book.  We set up stations for the students to enjoy:  Pick A RIF Book, Pick A Library Book, Play Bull Hockey on the iPads, and Make a Bookmark. Here are some photos of students enjoying this special event in the library.

4,954 Thank yous!

 The Tanglewood students checked out 4,954 books in the month of December (even though we had two weeks off for Winter Break!)  Thank you, volunteers, for helping us shelve the books, check out the books, check in the books, and shelve the books again!  In addition to all the check out, over 100 classes came to the library for a lesson, a read-aloud, and/or an activity. 

The Tanglewood Library is a very busy place!!

A New Year in Books!

Students will return to school on Tuesday and I look forward to finding out what everyone has been reading over the holiday.  I have been reading some of our new books, just to get acquainted with the new titles/authors. 

One new book I have been reading is written by the visiting author Heather Vogel Frederick, who will be visiting our school on February 12.  Ms. Frederick will be presenting her "book club" books to the girls in grades 4 and 5.  Hopefully, we have many "book clubs" reading her books together.  (If you need information about the "Book Clubs", please let me know.) Click here for a link to her website that includes a list of her titles. Mothers, grandmothers, neighbors, or whoever has been reading a book in a "Mother-Daughter Book Club" are invited to come to the presentation.  I will have times and details in the next few days.

We will have another visiting author on February 20 - Jungle Jim.  Jungle Jim's website is under construction at this time, but here is an article about his presentation.  He is very enthusiastic about insects, arthropods, centipedes, etc.  We will have details regarding his visit soon.

I am also reading the Newbery Award book from last year, Dead End in Novelt, historical fiction about Jack who lives in a small town during the post-World War II era.  Boys in grades 4 and 5, would really enjoy the book.  The Newbery Award for 2013, will be announced soon, and I look forward to reading the next award winning book.  I will post the award winners (Newbery and Caldecott) when I find out!

I am excited about all the new books for 2013, aren't you?