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Downloadable Press Release Text

Downloadable text that can be used as the basis for a press release or to promote ISLD locally.

• Microsoft Word format (DOC file, 28 KB)
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Book Event Planning Tips

From the SLA Guideline Brilliant Books: Running a Successful School Library Book Event by Geoff Dubber and Elspeth Scott (available from our Guidelines page).

• Popular Themes
• Choosing an Audience
• The Perfect Performer
• Ideas for Activities
• Budget Sheet
• Event Checklist
• Caring for your Visitor
• ICT Links

Books about libraries - a booklist

This booklist is also available for download as a Microsoft Word file (DOC format, 225 KB).

• Picture Books
• Beginning Readers
• Junior/Lower Secondary
• Teenage
• 16+

PICTURE BOOKS

• Winston the Book Wolf
  Ian Beck illus Marni McGee
  Bloomsbury 2006 0 74757977 6
• A Cultivated Wolf
  Becky Bloom illus Pascal Biet
  Siphano 2001 190307830X
• Beware the Storybook Wolves
  Lauren Child
  Hodder 2001 0340779160
• But Excuse Me That Is My Book
  Lauren Child
  Puffin 2005 0141382112
• Who's Afraid of the Big, Bad Book
  Lauren Child
  Hodder 2003 0340805552
• Maisy Goes to the Library
  Lucy Cousins
  Walker 2006 0744570891
• Little Bo Peep's Library Book
  Cressida Cowell
  Orchard 1999 0531301796
• Wolves
  Emily Gravett
  Macmillan 2006 1405053623
• Library Lion
  Michelle Knudsen illus Kevin Hawkes
  Candlewick Press 2006 0763622621
• Ben's Book
  Nanette Newman illus Georgie Birkett
  Chrysalis 2005 184458125X
• Prue Theroux, the Cool Librarian
  Gillian Rubinstein illus David Mackintosh
  Red Fox 2001 0091838878
• Wild About Books
  Judy Sierra illus Marc Brown
  Frances Lincoln 2006 1845075269
• Carlo and the Really Nice Librarian
  Jessica Spanyol
  Raintree 2006 184428512X
• The Library
  Sarah Stewart illus David Small
  Frances Lincoln 2006 1845074947
• The Librarian from the Black Lagoon
  Mike Thaler illus Jared Lee
  Scholastic 1993 0613034600
• Harry and the Bucketful of Dinosaurs
  Ian Whybrow and Adrian Reynolds
  Picture Puffin 2003 0140569804
• Delilah Darling is in the Library
  Jeanne Willis illus Rosie Reeve
  Puffin 2006 0141381744

BEGINNING READERS | Up to Booklist Contents

• The Legend of Spud Murphy
  Eoin Colfer
  Young Puffin 2005 0141317086
• Loudmouth Louis
  Anne Fine
  Puffin 1998 0141302054
• Mr Majeika and the Lost Spell Book
  Humphrey Carpenter
  Puffin 2003 0141315369
• Mr Majeika and the School Book Week
  Humphrey Carpenter
  Puffin 1993 0140348344
• The Dad Library
  Dennis Whelehan
  Young Corgi 1997 0552529796

JUNIOR/LOWER SECONDARY | Up to Booklist Contents

• A Spell Behind Bars
  Bowvayne
  Usborne 2006 0794512933
• Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism
  Georgia Byng
  Macmillan 2003 0330399853
• Matilda
  Roald Dahl
  Puffin 2001 0141311363
• Because of Winn Dixie
  Kate Di Camillo
  Walker 2005 0744583497
• Bad Dreams
  Anne Fine
  Corgi 2006 0440867320
• Special Powers
  Mary Hoffman
  Hodder 1997 0340626704
• Stacks of Stories
  Mary Hoffman (ed)
  Hodder 1997 034069968X
• The Middle of the Sandwich
  Tim Kennemore
  Puffin 1983 0140315195
• The Librarian who Measured the Earth
  Kathryn Lasky illus Kevin Hawkes
  Little Brown 1994 0316515264
• The Great Piratical Rumbustification and The Librarian and the Robbers
  Margaret Mahy
  William Morrow 1993 0688124690
• The Dead Letter Box
  Jan Mark
  Happy Cat Books 2004 1903285585
• Thunder and Lightnings
  Jan Mark
  Puffin 2000 0141309563
• I Believe in Unicorns
  Michael Morpugo
  Walker 2006 140630204X
• Harry Potter series
  J K Rowling
  Bloomsbury
• Endymion Spring
  Matthew Skelton
  Puffin 2006 0141382392
• The Edge Chronicles series
  Paul Stewart illus Chris Riddell
  Corgi (2005 0552548502 Freeglader)
• Chicken School
  Jeremy Strong
  Puffin 2004 0141317361

TEENAGE | Up to Booklist Contents

• The Memory Prisoner
  Thomas Bloor
  Hodder 2001 0340850612
• Malarkey
  Keith Gray
  Red Fox 2003 0099439441
• Girl, 15, Charming but Insane
  Sue Limb
  Bloomsbury 2004 0747571856
• Exchange
  Paul Magrs
  Simon and Schuster 2006 1416916628
• The Wind Singer
  William Nicholson
  Egmont 2003 1405209909
• Lirael
  Garth Nix
  Collins 2004 0007137338
• Discworld series
  Terry Pratchett
  Doubleday
• Life Line
  Rosie Rushton
  Barrington Stoke 2002 1842990578
• The Book Thief
  Markus Zusak
  Bodley Head 2007 037032921X
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer series
  Joss Whedon
  Pocket Books

16+ | Up to Booklist Contents

• Making Love
  Marius Brill
  Bantam 2004 0552771317
• The Da Vinci Code
  Dan Brown
  Corgi 2006 0552154016
• In the Stacks: Short Stories About Libraries and Librarians
  Michael Cart
  Gerald Duckworth 2005 0715633155
• The Virgin Blue
  Tracy Chevalier
  Harper 2006 0007241461
• The Name of the Rose
  Umberto Eco
  Vintage 1992 0749397055
• Magic and Madness in the Library
  Eric Graeber
  Birch Brook Press 1999 0913559369
• The Historian
  Elizabeth Kostova
  Time Warner 2006 0751537284
• The Grand Complication
  Allen Kurzweil
  Theia 2002 0786885181
• The Time Traveler's Wife
  Audrey Niffeneger
  Vintage 2005 0099464462
• The Bookseller of Kabul
  Asne Seierstad
  Virago 2004 1844080471

Booklist compiled by Eileen Armstrong and Chris Brown.

Up to Booklist Contents

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