10.Feb.07 book of month : Pumpkin soup

HELEN COOPER was born in London in 1963. After qualifying as a music teacher, she became interested in children’s book illustration and used the library to teach herself about art.
Her first book, Kit and the Magic Kite, was published by Hamish Hamilton in 1987. Her work has been translated into 15 languages. Among these are The Bear Under The Stairs, winner of the Smarties Young Judges Prize, and The Baby Who Wouldn't Go to Bed, and Pumpkin Soup which both won the Kate Greenaway award.
She lives in Oxford with her husband Ted Dewan, and their daughter Pandora.

This is a story about friendship and sharing. Three friends, Cat, Squirrel and Duck do the same things each day like making pumpkin soup. Everyone has his own job to do, everyone is happy or so it seems. Like all good friends these three argue about who does what and why. After a falling out Duck leaves the little white cabin and gives his friends time to think. They worry that Duck has found nicer friends and is not coming back. Instead Duck returns, all three swap around their chores and order is restored again, at least for the time being. A clever funny story is made all the more interesting by striking pictures. The story will resonate for any child who has known the difficulties that come with friendship.

10.Dec.06 book of month : Dinosaur's Day Out

Dinosaurs' Day out

Wrote by Nick Sharratt

Dinosaurs' Day out is packed with many of different kinds od reading that children come across in their everyday lives.

It involves reading maps, lists and speech bubbies.

Quizzes:

Inside this book you and your children can explore the answers for the quizzes:


1. Dexter and Laisy are gonig to visit their friend and what is their friend's name?

2. When they drove past the lake, suddenly the red light is flashing...Do you know what happended?

3.They drove past the windmill and got into the forest, up the hill, but they as soon as know there hill not a hill, do you know what that is?

Please, write down your answer in a piece of paper and put it into the box on the Children's Library's door or pigeonhole 5727. Remember to write your name and flat No. please!!

New books and gifts

This year we bought some new books and some gifts for children. Everyone is welcome to the library to borrow new books and answers questions to get secret present, if your children is too young and can't write the answers, please help your children to write and help them to get the present.


Don't forget help your children to win the prizes!!

06.Nov Book of month: Anansi The Spider

Anansi the Spider is a wise, funny, mischievous, and loveable folk hero who pops up in traditional Ashanti tales from Ghana, in West Africa. This story, retold and illustrated by Gerald McDermott, relates the tale of father Anansi and his six spider sons. When Anansi sets out on a dangerous journey and gets into all sorts of trouble, each son does one thing to help, and all their efforts together save their father. He finds a mysterious, beautiful globe of light in the forest, and decides to make it a gift of thanks. But which son should receive the prize? Even with the help of Nyame, the God of All Things, he can't decide, so Nyame takes the great globe up into the sky, and that's where it has stayed ever since--the moon, for all to see. This profound story reaches children of many ages; younger ones see it as an exciting rescue story, but older children are intrigued by the larger themes of cooperation and "the whole being more than its parts."
Quizzes:
Inside this book you and your children can explore the answers for the quizzes:

1. How many children did Anansi have?

2. What are their names respectively?

3.What kind of the treasure did Anansi find?

Please, write down your answer in a piece of paper and put it into the box on the Children's Library's door or pigeonhole 5727. Remember to write your name and flat No. please!!

Oct.06. Book of month : Swimmy

About the Author:
Leo Lionni wrote and illustrated more than 40 picture books, He won the ALA Notable Children's , New York Times Best Illustrated Books of the Year and Caldecott Honor Books in 1963. He died in 1999 at the age of 89.

About the book :
Swimmy was a little fish in the big ocean. When a big fish came along and swallowed up his friends, he was alone and afraid. He was swimming along enjoying the marvels of his undersea world when he came upon another school of fish just like him. Swimmy had to find a way to protect himself and his new friends.

Quizzes:
Inside this book you and your children can explore the answers for the quizzes:

1. What kind of fish are Swimmy and his brother and sister?
2. All of the small fish are red, can you tell me what colour Swimmy is?
3.In the end of story Swimmy taught other small fish how to protect themself?

Please, write down your answer in a piece of paper and put it into the box on the Children's Library's door or pigeonhole 5727. Don't forget write your name and flat No. !!

Sep.06.book of month : When sheep cannot sleep

About the Author:
Satoshi Kitamura was born in 1956 in Tokyo. Not formally trained as an artist, at the age of nineteen he began to do commercial art in Japan and, later, London. He won the Mother Goose Award for his first picture book, Angry Arthur, and this book won the New York Academy of science, Children'

About the book :
Original and inventive… Satoshi Kitamura has produced a counting book with such elan that it is a joy to look at and a great deal of fun. Woolly is a truly endearing insomniac.

I'll send this book content to everyone's E mail in case of someone's holding this book and you can't see this book in this month.

Quizzes:
Inside this book you and your children have to look for three things:

1. One night a sheep called Woolly could not sleep."I'll go for a walk," he said...and then he went to the .....?
2. Then he saw a butterfly, two ladybirds..ect ...then suddenly, flashing lights zipped across the sky. Woolly was very scared. What's that? What did he see?
3. He ran as fast as he could afterthat he saw a house and did lots of things. Finally he lay in the bed and began to think. What did he think before he fell sleep?

Please, write down your answer in a piece of paper and put it into the box on the Children's Library's door.

Goodenough Children's Library is opened.....

We will discuss about the appropriate time for regular opening of library in next parents club meeting. Before that, you can get the library key from the reception any time you want. However, for maintaining the library, we do hope that anyone who use the library can follow a few simple "rules" below:

1. Opening time : Every Saturday morning (10:30AM-12:00PM).
2. Story time : Every Saturday (exact time to be announced).
3. Book of the month : Every month, a particular book will be introduced with quizzes about the book. Children can write the answers and put them into the box which is in front of the Children Library's door. The following month, we'll provide the answers and make a draw .The winner child will get a certificate and a prize.
4. Classification : Books are categorised in eight different colours (yellow, red, orange, green, blue, silver, golden and white) according to different age groups to make it easier to find the books you are interested in.
5. Returned books : Please put returned books in the coloured boxes on the floor.
6. Please keep Library tidy and clean when you leave. (Shoes off and no food in the library, please )
7. Sign in/out in the reception when you borrow/return the key of library.

Any questions or recommendations, please contact Joyce (ext. 5727)
E-mail: joyce1974@gmail.

As the winter is getting closer, we will arrange a story-telling time every weekend. It is really difficult to choose a particular time in the weekend which is convenient for all the parents/children here. For the greatest benefit of our children, we still need to decide when to put it to suit most of the people. Can we have your opinion which time, i.e., Saturday morning or Sunday afternoon, you favor. We would be very grateful to have your reply.

3D Demonstration of NEW Children’s Library and Volunteers wanted

Volunteers Wanted

1. Check all the buggies, car seats and other stuff. Keep those in good conditions and put them into the store rooms (craft room or other store rooms).

2. Wall and bookshelf painting.

3. Decoration

a. Make frames.
b. Vent covering.
c. Make a castle gate

4. Books categorization and rearrangement

Renovation of Goodenough Children's Library

Goodenough Children's Library needs to be changed....

At present, our Children's Library is not "Goodenough" and not fully functioning. We are hoping we can provide children a good library environment, so we decided to change our Children's Library. I am trying to rearrange everything in the Library at the moment. Then I will make a list all of things to do, and I hope everybody can lend a hand to help us.

Afterwards, we will arrange a regular time schedule included story time, book of the month and some quizes for children.

we hope that we can work together to solve all of the problems in the near future!

Any comments and suggestions are more than welcome.

Ming-Shen & Joyce @ 5727

About us

The Children's Library contains material suitable for children of all ages including teenagers. We are located on the basement floor of the WGH, at the end of the hallway next to the games room. The book collection contains quality literature, both new and old.

We classify books by coloured stickers, Yellow stickers are for 0-2 years, red stickers are for 2-4 years, green stickers are for age 5-7 years, orange stickers are for age 7-11 years, blue stickers are for 11-18 years, sliver stickers are for fairy tales and folk tales,and golden stickers are for education books, white stickers are for parents. The Children's Library also offers classic, non-fiction, popular fiction, audio books, cartoon DVDs and video tapes for children.

A variety of fantastic programmes will be offered to promote enjoyment of books and the use of the library as a life - long resource.

Contact us:
Email: joyce1974@gmail.com
Extension number: 5727

The hairy toe

Illustrated by Daniel Postgate

The Hairy Toe introduces children to a traditional Ameriacn tale which, like many popular folktales, can be a little scary in places. They will enjoy the humour in the pictures and the build-up of suspense, right to the end of the story.

for age 4+