Life As We Knew It by Susan Pfeffer is the fourth book I have read from this year’s shortlist for the Sheffield Children’s Book Award*. Despite the fact that Susan Pfeffer is a prolific author with 75 books to her name, this was my first introduction to her work. I was impressed – in fact […]
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 Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: May 19th, 2008  Posted in: Uncategorized Tags for this post: Books.  Comments are closed Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: May 18th, 2008 Posted in: Uncategorized Tags for this post: Books. Comments are closedWhen I read the synopsis for Finding Violet Park by Jenny Valentine I was reminded of a real life story, a tale of an urn of ashes that spent nine years sitting on a shelf in a London Underground lost property office before some serious detective work found the family of the person in question. […] Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: May 18th, 2008 Posted in: Uncategorized Tags for this post: Books. Comments are closedNext up a book by a favourite author. I love Benjamin Zephaniah‘s poetry, so I launched into Teacher’s Dead with incredibly high expectations. The book begins with a murder. We know who the killers are from the opening scene, this isn’t a whodunnit. The story is told from the perspective of Jackson Jones, a boy […] Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: May 6th, 2008 Posted in: Uncategorized Tags for this post: Books. Comments are closedMy first book is one I borrowed from school, Life on the Refrigerator Door by Alice Kuipers. It’s one of the books vying for for this year’s Sheffield Children’s Book Award*. I was warned that I would need a box of tissues… The book is simply a series of notes, the type that every family […] Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: May 4th, 2008 Posted in: Uncategorized Tags for this post: Books. Comments are closedA couple of days after I found out about the book binge, a lot of students arrived to one of my lessons clutching books. When you see a book called Teacher’s Dead on a student’s desk, you have to ask what’s going on, especially when on closer inspection the author turns out to be the […] Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: May 1st, 2008 Posted in: Uncategorized Tags for this post: Books | Links | Spurious lists. 3 comments - more welcome! - (Comments are closed)I like books.I like lists.So that’s me hooked!May is normally a pretty hectic month, but it also includes a week of half-term holiday, so I’m not sure how much I will read over the next month.Will it be a binge or a light snack? Time will tell… Thanks to Z for sharing this great idea.If […] Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: December 15th, 2007 Posted in: Uncategorized Tags for this post: Books. Comments are closed“How much?”“£1.95 million.”“That’s almost unbelievable. No child will ever get near that book will they?”I was so confident in this prediction. I calmly assumed that some investor had bought J.K.Rowling’s hand written book The Tales of Beedle the Bard and that it was heading for a future locked in a vault, unseen and unread.Wrong again. […] |
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