After a long summer resting, our specialist Children’s Mobile Library has been out on its first school visits this week…
Over the course of the next term, Tony (our Mobile library assistant) will be visiting schools all over the county, giving pupils the opportunity to choose from our amazing book-stock, titles carefully selected by our team. In the last academic year, we visited almost 100 schools, charting each of the destinations on our special map (below!) and this year we’ll be doing the same- make sure you take a look if your school gets the chance to see us this term!
Below are our team’s Friday Reads and as always, you’ll find our jam-packed archive of recommendations just here.
Apryl: Perfectly Norman by Tom Percival
Norman is a perfectly normal boy until one day, entirely out of the blue, he grows a pair of wings. This is exciting news, and Norman enjoys the fun of flying around until he suddenly becomes plagued with worries; what will his parents think? What will his friends say? His emotions get the better of him and he hides away, but this only makes him feel worse.
This is a wonderfully illustrated tale about coming to terms with- and eventually embracing- what makes you different and realising that we’re all unique and that’s what makes you “you”!
(Bloomsbury, £6.99 paperback, ISBN 9781408880975, find it at a Norfolk Library)
Harriet: Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie, illustrated by Paul Birkbeck
With Banned Books Week coming up (24-30 September) I’m reminded of the notorious case of Salman Rushdie and his adult novel Midnight’s Children, which caused such ferocious controversy in the 1980s. I’ve always had a soft spot for his children’s novel Haroun and the Sea of Stories, particularly the edition beautifully illustrated by Paul Birkbeck. It’s a magical fable about a boy whose father has lost his ability to tell wonderful stories and thus keep their city happy. So he goes on a quest to find his father’s gift, and while the book is full of strange, magical creatures and happenings, there is also a warm humanitarian heart to the story.
(Puffin, £6.99 paperback, ISBN 9780140366501, find it at a Norfolk Library)
Zoë: Trees by Victoria Munson
Part of the My First Book of Nature series, this book introduces the reader to many familiar trees seen around the British countryside as well as in our towns and cities.
Lots of straightforward facts in accessible fonts are with every image. Pages are laid out in an attractive, colourful manner. Texts are used creatively – not always in boxes or straight lines.
This would be a good book to use with KS1 or lower KS2 when looking at the features of non-fiction texts.
(Wayland, £11.99 hardback, ISBN 9781526301550, find it a Norfolk Library)
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