Library staff members Lesley Conway and Pia Butcher run a radio show each Wednesday 12:05pm-12:45pm on Eastern FM 98.1 called The Eastern Regional Library Show. Tune in next week for a great show.
On Wednesday's show
On Wednesday's show
Some lovely new books from the junior and teenage collection were reviewed by Pia today. Three new picture books are....Red bridge written and illustrated by Kylie Dunstan. Clarie has said goodbye to all of her friends and moved with her family to another country where everything smells different and looks different. How will she ever make friends or get used to the new place? A lovely story about adaptation. Long live us written by Edel Wignell illustrated by Peter Allert is a fractured fairy tale involving many of our favourite fairy tale characters in new ways. Who is 'good' and who is 'bad'? An entertaining take on values. And Black swan written and illustrated by Celia Bridle. Illustrated in monochrome, this delightful story feels like a folk tale. A black swan escapes from a cage and flies away to alight at a village by a lake. The villagers ask the swan to stay and incubate an egg they have found. When a volcano threatens, the black swan saves the villagers and the egg from destruction.
For teens, two new novels....Merrow written by Ananda Braxton-Smith is the story of Neen whose parents have disappeared, and the villagers believe that her mother is a Merrow or selkie. Neen believes them and determines to find out the truth despite her aunt's dissaproval. Anna and the french kiss by Stephanie Perkins follows Anna who was looking forward to her senior year in Atlanta USA. However her parents have other ideas and ship her off to a boarding school in Paris. She is less than thrilled until she meets Etienne St. Clair, a smart and charming french student with a serious girlfriend!
---- Lesley
1 comment:
Good to see ERL is using lots of different ways of connecting books and people. Well done.
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