Reading Abounds

Title: The Accident Season Author: Moira Fowley-Doyle Perma-Bound Catalogue#: 128557 Description:    Every October Cara and her family become mysteriously and dangerously accident-prone, but this year, the year Cara, her ex-stepbrother, and her best friend are 17, is when Cara will begin to unravel the accident season's dark origins. Rubric Rating: Level 3 - Laud It Why I Read It: Great Title and Tag Line Notes:    It is October.  It is the accident season.  Every October Alice, Cara, and their ex-stepbrother, Sam, batten down the hatches and prepare for the accident season.  Sometimes it’s not bad, just a few cuts and bruises, but sometimes it’s horrible, with broken bones or worse. Cara’s friend Bea predicts a bad one, but not just a bad one, one of the worst.  While Cara struggles to find understanding about the accident season, is it supernatural or fate, or just made up, she decides that in order to find out for sure,...

  Title:  Thirteen Chairs Author: Dave Shelton Perma-Bound Catalogue #: 128181 Description:  When Jack enters a deserted house on a cold night, he finds a dozen people, sitting at a table, who invite him to take the thirteenth chair and share a ghost story--with unexpected ramifications. Rubric Rating: Level 2 - Like It Why I Read It: It's a book of short ghost stories.   Notes: I'm not sure it's ever taken me longer to finish a book.  I loved the cover, title, and premise of this book.  I picked it up last summer to read at the cottage figuring a book of short ghost stories would be great to read at night in front of the fire.  The premise of the story is good.  Jack enters a haunted house to find himself invited into a room with 12 other people each holding a candle.  Each relates their story and blows out their candle.  As each story is told Jack is filled with more and more trepidation as he comes to realize thes...

Title:  Sylvie Author and Illustrator:  Jennifer Sattler Perma-Bound Catalogue #: 35813 Description:  When Sylvie the pink flamingo learns her colour comes from the little pink shrimp she eats, she decides to expand her choices, trying everything under the sun and, unfortunately, overdoing it. Curriculum Links:  Art: Colours Character Ed: Integrity Reading: Questioning Science: Animals Social Studies: Developing a Sense of Self Notes: Design:  This book is slightly longer and thinner than an average picture book.  It's tall like Sylvie!  A cute little flamingo.  The cover and title don't give much away as to the content of the book but the illustrations are delightful and simple. The front papers are swirly pink with a blue imprint page while the book ends with a solid pink page followed by swirly blue end papers.  These swirly backgrounds are repeated throughout the book as Sylvie tries on different colours....

Title:  Home Author:  Carson Ellis Perma-Bound Catalogue #: 95935 Description:  A whimsical tribute to the myriad possibilities of home depicts homes in different real-world environments as well as fantastical settings. Curriculum Links:  Art: Design Reading: Connecting Science: Materials Science: Structures Social Studies: Local and Global Communities Notes:  Design:  The cover is very engaging with a variety of Homes on the cover, that are both real and imagined, human and animal, natural and man-made.  The end pages are bright red and that is the main colour that draws attention within the pages - a red curtain, or red flag, a roof or chimney.  The text looks like pen quill and ink writing but is large and easily legible. Content and Illustrations:  This book is full of simple text that describes various types of homes, from apartments to bee hives, buses and ships, make believe homes and real homes, and the pe...