Cruella, the film starring Emma Stone, is out in cinemas today. Why not get up to speed on all things by Cruella by reading The One Hundred and One Dalmatians by Dodie Smith, or the sequel Starlight Barking? Alternatively you could dip into Paws and Whiskers, edited by one of our favourite authors Jacqueline Wilson, which includes extracts from the very best stories about cats and dogs, including from The One Hundred and One Dalmatians.
So sad to hear of the death of Eric Carle. He was the creator of many well loved picture books including of course the very popular The Very Hungry Caterpillar, which many of our students will have grown up on.
We were very excited to discover that Hans Rosling's book 'How I Learned to Understand the World' is being serialised on BBC Radio 4.
10 - 16 May 2021 is Mental Health Awareness Week. This year the theme is nature. We are aware that nature is central to our psychological and emotional health. If you want to read about nature then where better to seek inspiration than our Geofiction reading lists?
Please nominate our school Library to win £5,000 worth of books. Click here and scroll down to fill out the simple form. The closing date is Saturday the 31st of July 2021. If your entry wins you will also get £100 of book tokens for yourself!
You might be interested in the National Book Tokens Design a Book Token competition too.
We are really pleased to be working with our Geography department colleagues on their GeoFiction project. Together we have created reading lists of books which make links with some of the topics covered in our Geography lessons. You might just want to read these lovely books for the pleasure of it too.
We will be publishing a reading list each week for three weeks.
To view our third list in the series, the Key Stage 5 list, click here.
