Young Cal has watched the Book Lady on her sorrel mare ride the long trail up to his family’s farm every two weeks to deliver books. While his younger sister Lark loves to read and would happily have her nose in a book from dawn to dusk, Cal has never learned to read, and feels [...]
Last week I held end-of-year celebrations for the members of the Reading Hall of Fame, all 163 of them. After the Hall of Fame closed for the year, on May 29th, I spent the better part of a week checking a bin full of reading logs that students had submitted at the last minute, and [...]
The books nominated for the Ontario Library Association’s Forest of Reading programs were announced this past Monday. Each year, the nominations are greeted with a shiver of excitement by both students and their teachers.
Yesterday afternoon, after having wiggled my library budget around, and checked pockets for any loose change, I placed the [...]
The Get Caught Reading Hall of Fame closed on May 30th. This year it surpassed previous records with 150 students, 91 Primary children, 47 Junior students and 12 Intermediate students! These 150 students read 14,000 picture storybooks and 2,000 novels, 16,000 books in all.
The Get Caught Reading Celebrations began on June 13th with the Primary [...]
