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Today we will mostly be making Easter Bunny Baskets....cotton wool fluffy tails here we come

3/26/2015

http://familycrafts.about.com/od/easterbaskets/ss/bunnybasket.htm#step-heading

The link to the Easter bunny basket craft loveliness is above. If you're looking for an Easter story to cross both KS1 and 2 look no further than Brian Wildsmith's 'The Easter Story' which has been around for a while; the cover above, I think, is the newest edition. The book features a donkey which is a lovely way of seeing the story through different eyes. The words can be simplified if you need but the illustrations are really beautiful and would make some lovely cards to sequence for the story too.

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"Just what the world needed: another teenage wizard"

3/16/2015

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"Gifted" by Donald Hounam is in fact a rather different wizard to Harry but different in a good way and I think the world does need Frank Sampson. He is a forensic sorcerer trying to solve the case of a headless bishop. The story is set in Oxford but in a different time which makes for a more intriguing read. There are some parts that indicate it is more of a teenage read -11+ There's a bit of romance in it too ;the humour adds to the quirkiness and you get absorbed into Frank's world quickly. The characters are interesting-particularly Frank and his relationship with Marvo. All in all a GOOD READ. New character for new Spring days.....go and open the book.

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“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.” ― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

3/14/2015

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Hurrah news-currently aiming to set up STORYSHACK in a lovely garden with a log cabin for book making and a little annexe for 7 and under books, dressing up, potion making and general IMAGINEERING GALORE. Look out for more postings before the Easter Holidays.
In the meantime if you like detective novels with some clever eccentric peeps in rather than action biff pow punchy super hero types look no further than "Knightley & Son" by Rohan Gavin. Darkus' father has been in a coma for four years and Darkus has been piecing together all the cases his father was working on in order to pursue the lines of enquiry his father was following as a private detective. It's actually perhaps more about relationships than actual detecting but there is the sinister 'organisation' to be wary of and a clever plot about a book which compels people to commit crimes. It's about brains and feelings and there's lots of insights into a family make up previously fractured and set up slightly differently. It's a quirky read-Darkus is a bit Sherlock ian in his traits. I think 9 + should enjoy it and there's a series; "K9" is the second.

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Look at these little beauties made at the Saxmundham Library yesterday

3/9/2015

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Release your imagination......
Explore new worlds.
Make your own stories.

Today we will mostly be making Easter Bunny Baskets....cotton wool fluffy tails here we come

"Just what the world needed: another teenage wizard"

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.” ― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

Look at these little beauties made at the Saxmundham Library yesterday

Sarah Gallagher

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Release your imagination......Explore new worlds. Make your own stories.

Today we will mostly be making Easter Bunny Baskets....cotton wool fluffy tails here we come

"Just what the world needed: another teenage wizard"

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.” ― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

Look at these little beauties made at the Saxmundham Library yesterday

Sarah Gallagher

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Release your imagination......
Explore new worlds.
Make your own stories.