Waterloo School Library Blog

Today is the very last day to redeem your finished pizza wheels!  Make sure you whip into Hell's Pizza in Lower Hutt to get your free pizza while the day is still on!

We are very lucky to have a lot of wonderful books to choose from in our school library.  Many kids are not so fortunate...the photo above shows a stack of boxes containing donated books from school libraries and families, and these are going to be sailing their way over to Tonga in the new year.  The box at the top has been donated by Waterloo School - all fantastic books that will provide enjoyment and information to other kids just like you :)  

Over the last week I have read a story to the classes called 'Little Mouse's Big Secret'.  Basically, mouse finds an apple and decides to hide it - he buries it in the ground and in time it grows into an apple tree.  Which lead us to wonder....if you put an apple in the ground, just plonk it in....will it grow?  Some of us are going to test this out.  We will either wind up with smelly old apples rotting away in the ground.  OR we will end up with apple trees! See the above picture for how I decided to plant my apple.  In a pot, away from the dog.  Who found it anyway and removed it from the pot.  No fear, the apple is back safely, and away from the dog :)

Fuzzy Mud Louis Sachar I recommend this book because it is so good and once I started reading it I could not stop.  This book is about a girl called Tamaya and she has a friend called  Marshall who she walks to school with.  And there is a new boy, Chad, who tells Marshall to go into the woods - so Marshal did, and he took the new boy with him....and this leads them to this fuzzy mud stuff.   Read the book to find out what happens next! Recommended age 9+ * * * * *

GANGSTA GRANNY DAVID WALLIAMS TONY ROSS This book is a really funny book, because it works out that Ben, the little boy, found out that his Grandma is a gangster and really wanted to be like her. In the book Granny always smelled like cabbages because she always bakes cabbage pies.  Together they went on a hunt to steal the  Queen's crown.  Will they get caught??.....Read Gangsta Granny and find out! * * *  Recommended for age 8 years