Read the book.... watch the show.....

Welcome back to our Library Blog. I hope you all managed to find time for some relaxing over the holidays. I am sure many of you went to the movies over the holidays, perhaps to see Paddington or Paper Planes or catch up with The Maze Runner. These are 3 examples of book and movie tie-ins. Paddington of course is an old classic story published first in 1958 and written by Michael Bond and The Maze Runner was published in 2009 and written by James Dashner. Paper Planes is somewhat different as the book was written after the movie, so it is actually an adaptation of the screen version by Steve Worland!  Paper Planes and The Maze Runner are both available for borrowing from our library and I am waiting on a current release of Paddington to add to our collection. Many students are actually surprised to find their favourite movies started as a book.

So what other book movie tie-ins do we have in our library. here's a list to help if you are trying to find something to read...

Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief                  Rick Riordan
Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters                 Rick Riordan
Tomorrow When the War Began                  John Marsden
Mao's Last Dancer - (abridged for younger readers)                Li Cunxin
Nim's Island                         Wendy Orr
Diary of a Wimpy Kid                 Jeff Kinney
The Hunger Games trilogy            Suzanne Collins
The Hobbit     Tolkien
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory           Roald Dahl
James and the Giant Peach                       Roald Dahl
Matilda                                                  Roald Dahl
Misery guts                                          Morris Gleitzman
How to Train Your Dragon                 Cressida Cowell
Holes                                                    Louis Sacher
Stormbreaker                                  Anthony Horowitz
Tintin                               Herge
A Series of Unfortunate Events         Lemony Snicket
and of course Harry Potter.     J. K. Rowling

We also have a few books that are television/DVD and book tie-ins including...
Extreme Adventures     Justin D'ath
Old Tom  laugh Hobbs
Conspiracy 365 series   Gabrielle Lord
Paul Jennings Un-series of short stories which were televised as Round the Twist.   Paul Jennings
Pearlie              Wendy Harmer
Charlie and Lola          Lauren Child
Hairy Maclary From Donaldson's Dairy             Lynley Dodd

So if you are looking for something to read why not read the book and watch the show!

Books and Youtube

 

 

Are you interested in finding out how Jeff Kinney draws his characters from his Diary of a Wimpy Kid series? Well, you could learn how to draw his characters on the Jeff Kinney's Cartoon Class video series from Penguin Kid's TV on YouTube.  There's actually a Wimpy Kid channel that has EVERYTHING you would want to know about Jeff, the books, the characters...




Would you like to hear the very funny and popular author (and actor) David Walliams read from his book Gangsta Granny .........?

 Or maybe you would like to hear Jacqueline Harvey talk about Alice-Miranda... watch here...

Would you like to see and hear how illustrator Alison Lester starts to make books? Watch here...

What about Captain Underpants? The author of these funny books, Dave Pilkey also has his own Youtube channel which has everything you could possibly want to see or hear about these popular books.  Watch one of his book trailers here...

Do you want to find out about new books? Well you can watch a Book Trailer about Sally Rippin's new book Angel Creek on her own YouTube channel.

There are so many book related videos on YouTube that entertaining to watch. You can see and hear authors and illustrators talking about their books, how they write or illustrate their books or you can watch book trailers to find out about new books that you might like to read. All you need to do is to type in the name of your favourite authors or illustrators, type in the name of a publisher or type in children's book trailers. You probably need to check if the book trailer was made by a publisher or just a person who created a book trailer for fun.  You can see interviews with your favourite authors and illustrators or even watch them as they draw. You could even create your own book trailer for a favourite book or film a review of a favourite book and post it on YouTube! take a look...
Denise Pilinis

Waiting for  A Wimpy Kid..
I would have to say that the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, Tom Gates  and Dork Diaries are two of the most popular series in the library. The books are popular with both boys and girls - children who love to read as well as the "But I can't find any books I like" readers. The next Wimpy Kid book, The Long Haul  will be in the library soon and there's no word as yet about the next Tom Gates or Dork Diaries. So, what can our children read in the meantime and while they are waiting for the book to be on the shelf? Well there's a few other choices which may keep all our children happy!

As far as series go there's...
Big Nate by Lincoln Pierce, The Loser List by H. N. Kowitt, Red Dirt Diaries by Katrina Nanstead, Stuff Happens by various authors, The World of Norm by Jonathan Meres, Weirdo 1, 2 and 3 by Ahn Do,  Nerds by Michael Buckley, Starring Jules by Beth Ain, Jeremy Strong by Jeremy Strong, The Floods by Colin Thompson, The Strange Case of Origami Yoda (and others) by Tom Angleberger A series of unfortunate events by Lemony Snicket, How to train your dragon by Cressida Cowell, Popularity Papers by Amy Ignatow, Eric Vale by Michael Gerard Bauer,  My sister the vampire by Sienna Mercer, Middle School by James Patterson, and Treasure Hunters by James Patterson.

These are just a few suggestions for other popular series in  our library. I am always more than happy to help our students out with their book choices. All they need to do is pop in to see me on the library and I will try my best to help them find something to read.
Denise Pilinis
Library technician