May/June 2013
FOR CLASS BOOKINGS, CALL:
halifaxpubliclibraries.ca
All programs require registration. To book your class, please call the branch.
· Alderney Gate Public Library
Alison Creech:
490-5876
· Bedford Public Library
Dacia MacDonald:
Jocelyn Covert:
490-5855
490-5855
· Captain William Spry
Public Library
Ella Leving:
490-5796
· Cole Harbour Public Library
Darcy Johns:
435-8763
· Dartmouth North Public Library
Carla Foxe:
490-5840
· Halifax North Public Library
Alison Black:
490-5767
· Keshen Goodman Public Library
Danielle Dungey:
490-6438
· Musquodoboit Harbour
Public Library
Denise Somers:
889-4076
· Sackville Public Library
Julia Stewart
869-4450
· J.D. Shatford Public Library
Cathy Jennex:
857-9176
· Sheet Harbour Public Library
Denise Somers:
889-4076
· Spring Garden Road Memorial
Public Library
Heather Doepner:
Dacia MacDonald:
490-5765
490-5765
· Tantallon Public Library
Lucas Maxwell:
826-3333
· Woodlawn Public Library
Ashley Nunn-Smith
(Elementary):
490-2744
Lara McAllister
(Junior & Senior High): 490-2742
Art Workshop
Author Reading
Atlantic Book
Festival
Erin Arsenault –
Gus the Tortoise
Takes A Walk!
Grades 1-3 (Suggested Ages 5-8)
As part of the Atlantic Book Festival (May
9-16), the Bedford Public Library is hosting
an art workshop with children's illustrator,
Sydney Smith. Sydney illustrated the
twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Toes In
My Nose by Sheree Fitch, which has been
nominated for the Lillian Shepard Award for
Excellence in Illustration.
ARTIST
Sydney received a BFA from the Nova
Scotia College of Art & Design and since
then has been lucky to work with amazing
authors, musicians, and other inspiring
artists. If you would like to bring your
class(es) to the library for a lesson in
illustration, please contact Jocelyn Covert at
490-5855 or email [email protected].
BEDFORD
Wednesday, May 15/10 a.m.
Puppet Show
Asian Heritage
Month
Grades P-2
In honour of Asian Heritage Month, your
students will be treated to a Library-adapted
puppet show called Chopsticks the Mouse &
the Chinese Dragon, a magical tale of
friendship between Chopsticks the Mouse
and a wooden Chinese dragon. Based on the
book, Chopsticks by Jon Berkeley.
KESHEN GOODMAN
Wednesday, May 22/10-11:30 a.m.
Grades P-2
Gus the Tortoise Takes a
Walk is a new children's
picture book written by
Erin Arsenault and
illustrated by Richard
Rudnicki. Gus is the
tortoise in residence at
the Museum of Natural
History in Halifax. One
day, as museum workers prepare a new
house for Gus, he is mistakenly taken
outside in a box. He wakes up and finds
himself in the great outdoors, with delicious
dandelions and grass tempting his taste
buds. Gus then follows his nose on a walk
in the grounds that surround the museum.
As you follow Gus on his walk you will
recognize other Halifax landmarks in the
story and in the bright and vivid
illustrations.
AUTHOR
Erin Arsenault lives in Halifax with her
daughter, Sophie. They enjoy visiting their
friend Gus the Tortoise together. Erin is the
winner of the 2008 Word on the Street
"Pitch the Publisher" event (children/YA
fiction). Gus the Tortoise Takes a Walk is her
first book.
ALDERNEY GATE
Thursday, May 23/10 a.m.
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May/June 2013
Go! Bon Voyage! W
e need your help to spread the
word about the TD Summer
Reading Club. Here's what you can do:
Join the Club! Registration is free and
begins on June 25 at all branches.
1. Welcome library staff to your classroom for a brief
promotional visit.
2. Display the poster advertising the program in your classroom.
Ready For September
As educators, you work all year to guide your pupils' reading by
developing their enjoyment of books. Each summer, the TD Summer
Reading Club encourages children 12 and under to read as a means
to make it easier for them to go back to school in September. The
Club is designed to support you in your efforts by consolidating and
improving children's acquired reading skills during the summer
months.
Travel Theme
This year's travel theme encourages children to journey to places
near and far, from the backyard to other worlds—by whatever
means they can imagine—and experience new tastes, friends, and
excitement along the way.
Incentives
When children register for this free, nation-wide bilingual program
at their local library, they will receive a passport and a pre-reading
activity book or school-age magazine. As they continue reading
over the summer, they will collect delightful stickers to encourage
continued reading. The stickers will interact with the passport and
contain secret codes revealing bonus website content.
There will also be draws for five Grand Prizes designed to appeal to
various ages.
Here are some of the comments we received from
teachers about our program in past years:
"I have viewed firsthand the progress and enthusiasm
generated by the program. It gives children something valuable
to do on their vacation and gives families a place to spend quality
time with their kids."
"The program is a great way to reach families.... This promotes
and encourages families to maintain their reading over
the summer."
"I think the summer reading program is extremely useful.
The prizes are a great incentive."
3. Distribute the flyers inviting children to join the program to
each child.
4. Encourage parents to register their child by using the stickers
provided in your package on report card envelopes.
5. Promote the program to your class.
6. Bookmark the Kids @ the Library page on your classroom
computer. www.halifaxpubliclibraries.ca/kids
7. Remind students that registration begins Tuesday, June 25th,
and that all branches will have a kick-off event.
Visit the TD Summer Reading Club site for more information on
the national program. www.tdsummerreadingclub.ca