FlipSide

The November issue of Flip Side is available in the Library. As usual it is full of fascinating articles and some unusual pictures.

Halloween Display

This year's Halloween Display is based on a rhyme I remember from way back when I was at primary school. There are lots of horror and ghost stories on display throughout the Library as well, so plenty to scare you during the long, dark autumn evenings!

 

It's Halloween and witches fly
 



On their broonsticks through the sky
 

Each is wearing a pokey hat
 

And each has got a big black cat!

Book of the week - 28th October

This week we are revisiting a previous book of the week - 'Liar & spy' by Rebecca Stead - this book was not very popular first time round despite my recommendation (or because of it?!) but it has now won a major literary prize. Rebecca Stead is the first America author to win the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize for Liar & spy which is a very clever story about a boy who is bullied at school and how he deals with this problem. Well worth reading.

Book of the week - 14th October

'Far rockaway' by Charlie Fletcher is this week's featured book. When Cat and her grandfather are knocked down by a truck in central Manhattan they find themselves fighting for their lives in two worlds: a hospital in Manhattan and a strange world full of heroes and villains from some literary classics such as 'The three musketeers' and 'Treasure Island'. Cat has to find a way to survive in this fantasy world and find her way home and back to consciousness. This is an exciting fantasy adventure and will appeal to your inner swashbuckler!!

If you like this story you might also enjoy 'Stoneheart'  by Charlie Fletcher.

Black October

In October as the nights get darker thoughts start to turn to all things "Halloween". The display in the fiction section this month focuses on books which are scary, or frightening,  and which, by coincidence, have predominantly black book jackets! So if you want something creepy or ghostly to read come along to the Library and see the selection of books on display.

Book of the week - &th October

Book of the week this week is 'Unfed' by Kirsty McKay. If you liked the first book in this series ('Undead') of zombie fun and adventure then you will surely enjoy 'Unfed'.
 From the blurb on the back cover:

"They're back... and this time they're hungry.
The good news: Bobby survived her unreal school trip. The bad news: her best bud Smitty is missing, there are undead everywhere and they're getting hungrier...
It's a no-brainer. Somehow she must find some living frinds - and the antidote- before everyone's toast."

Just the sort of story for the lengthening dark nights and the lead up to Halloween!!

National Poetry Day

Thursday 3rd October is National Poetry Day and this year the theme is WATER. So to celebrate all things poetic there is a display of this year's selected poems in the Library. There is also a display of books both fiction and non-fiction with a watery theme at the Library entrance.

For more facts about National Poetry Day visit the Scottish Poetry Library's website or the website of Education Scotland for information, poems and downloads.