Have you seen this new series published by Walker Books.
After Luke Watson transforms into a werewolf for the third time, he and his parents are moved by the Government Housing of Unusual Lifeforms (G.H.O.U.L.) to Scream Street – a community of vampires, zombies, witches and more! Luke soon makes friends with vampire Resus Negative and mummy Cleo Farr.
Check out Tommy Donbavand introduce his series of books…
Scream Street and Tommy Donbavand have a fantastic website with news, events, games and much more. Click here to check it out.
Click here to purchase the first book in the series – Scream Street 1 : Fang of the Vampire.
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Daniel X is a teenage alien hunter with a fistful of awesome super-powers who is out to stop dangerous aliens from harming Earth and her inhabitants. But he himself is an alien with the power to manipulate objects and influence minds. At three years old his parents where murdered in front of him by the powerful alien, The Prayer, who was in search of a secret list Daniel’s father was protecting.
Check out the book trailer for this first book in the new series by James Patterson.
Click here to purchase a copy of The Dangerous Days of Daniel X.
Click here to purchase Daniel X – Watch the Skies (Book 2)
Smartboards and laptops might be all the buzz in Australian schools, but both teachers and governments get too hung up on these tools of technology, and sometimes overlook their purpose.
That’s the view of Marco Torres, a technology and innovation educator. He has been visting Australia, talking to school students and teachers and to the minister for education, Julia Gillard.
A former high school teacher from Los Angeles, Marco Torres is on President Barack Obama’s technology in education advisory committee.
He is back and ready to wow the fans of J.K Rowling’s Harry Potter. Harry Potter the Half-Blood Prince is the sixth novel in the series and promises to be bigger and better than the rest. The movie trailer has just come out ready for the holidays.
A New York Best Seller, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince takes up the story of Harry Potter’s sixth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, with Voldemort’s power and followers increasing day-by-day.
“ In a brief statement on Friday night, Minister for Magic Cornelius Fudge confirmed that He Who Must Not Be Named has returned to this country and is once more active. It is with great regret that I must confirm that the wizard styling himself Lord – well, you know who I mean – is alive and among us again, said Fudge. “
These dramatic words appeared in the final pages of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
Lets hope the movie lives up to the book.
Click here to purchase paperback version of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
Click here to see other books written by J.K. Rowling.
• An animated video for young people launched by the Asia Pacific Privacy Authorities, “Your Privacy is Important. Think before you upload!”, appears on our youth portal @ http://www.privacy.gov.au/topics/youth/index.html.
Here is a new website set up by National Library of Australia. It is currently a prototype with release into production later this year. It is called SBDS Protoype. Its aim is to provide a one stop shop of resources currently available via the Library’s multiple services, and digitised material freely available online anywhere in the world.
According to the site…
“You can find:
Text resources such as books, theses, reports, research articles, raw data sets from research, book chapters, sheet music, conference proceedings, and papers and records collected by significant people and organisations
Maps and Audio-visual resources such as photos, artworks, postcards, videos, musical sound, sheet music and sound recordings of interviews
Full text of selected Australian newspapers, from between 1803 and 1954
Copies of significant Australian websites which may no longer be available online
Information about significant people and organisations “
This site uses resources from the following wide range of resources, including Picture Australia, PANDORA, Australian Newspapers Beta, Australian National Bibliographic Database, and the ARROW Discovery
Service.
Some of the items you can look up include – Books and Journals, Pictures and Photos, Music and Sound, Australian Newspapers (1803-1954), Diaries and Letters, Maps, Archived Websites and About People.
Maurice Zendak’s Where the Wild Things has been immortalized on film 46 years after being published. Let the rumpus begin…
The word is that this film is not pitched at little kids, even though inspired by a picture book. The Australian release date is 10 December 2009, according to IMDB.
For all those who love Twilight, the New Moon trailer has just been released and has made the record books.
Check out new movie trailer for New Moon.
In case there is anyone out there who hasn’t read Stephenie Meyers’ trilogy and wants to click here to purchase the titles – Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse and Breaking Dawn.
The Twilight Companion by Lois H. Grech is a must-have for fans of the Twilight series with legends and lore about vampires and werewolves, insights into the lives and loves of the characters and loads of exclusive facts and quizzes. Although not authorized by the Twilight Series, most fans will love this companion.
The Very Hungry Caterpillar turns 40 this year. Check out the video where Eric Carle himself talks about how he came up with the idea and his love for colour.
A classic children’s picture book which should be in every Library’s collection.
The wraps have finally come off Microsoft’s new Bing internet search tool.
The new search engine has been two years in the making and Microsoft says the difference between Bing and Google is that the new search engine is designed to return answers instead of a bunch of links – although it also does the latter.
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I'm enjoying looking at your blog. Last week's information on the Flip video was very interesting and the Librarian's Song was great.
Keep up the good work!
Denise O'Brien
SMS Librarian
Trinity Catholic College
