What are you reading from our Fall 2010 Book Fair? Check out these titles!
This blog is designed to accompany our Book Fair website "Reading Saves the Day" published on our Bay Farm Media Center website. Be sure to visit these websites by clicking their links in the sidebar. Happy Reading!
Eat This, Not That...for kids!
written by David Zinczenko
Have you ever wondered about the food choices you make and whether they are healthy choices? This best selling book will help you better understand what goes into the food we eat and what choices could be better for you when you are out and about at your favorite restaurant or fast food place.
Did you know?
You watch over 26,000 TV ads in a year...and 22% of them are marketing food! The message sent most often is that junk food is instant happiness.But it really isn't.
The book shares basic rules to be successful at eating healthy...
Rule 1: Never skip breakfast, ever.
Rule 2: Snack with purpose.
Rule 3: Beware of portion distortion
Rule 4: Drink responsibly
Rule 5: Eat more whole food and less science experiments
Rule 6: Set the Table
Rule 7: Kick the sugar habit
Rule 8:Eat the rainbow
The book also compares good and bad food choices at favorite restaurants and tells you calorie count and more. There's also a section on how to make choices from a menu, and what to look for that could be empty calories or calorie deceiving.
Another section teaches you how to read the nutrition information on grocery labels, which cereals are the best and worst and other snacks and food choices. There are even sample menus and physical fitness routines to try out.
Watch the video below to get more details on what awaits you inside the book...and if you check this book out from our library, be sure to share what you learn with your family!
Great Migrations: Whales, Wildebeasts, Butterflies, Elephants, and other Amazing Animals on the Move
written by Elizabeth Carney
National Geographics for Kids is batting 1000, with more great books being published every day. We had many of these great books at our Fall BookFair, and you can be sure that every single one of them is being processed for our library collection!
This book has a focus on migration, and animals that must migrate in order to survive. It is directly tied to the global television 7 event series that began recently on the Nat Geo cable channel named after the book...or is the book named after the television documentary? Either way, the book, published to add to the television event was a stroke of genius, especially since I know how many of you look for books after seeing a movie or TV show that peaked your interest to learn more!
In this double page layout, you will see a two page photo of the animal species being highlighted, followed by another two page format sharing in stylized text major factoids and trivia important to know to better understand migration. Each animal species, and its need to migrate, influences the earth, the people who live in it, and most importantly impacts the delicate balance of nature that we are charged with to maintain and manage for earth's ultimate survival.
Inside the book you will read and learn more about Mali elephants, Red Crabs, Monarch Butterflies, Jellyfish, Zebra, Army Ants, Wildebeasts, and Sperm Whales.
The photography is breathtaking, and the facts presented are interesting, new, and thought-provoking.
Don't stop with the book.
Be sure to check out online:
See below two of the many videos from the "Nat Geo Migrations" site to give you more information and the ability to see the beauty of our earth and its creatures.
Scholastic Book of World Records Ultimate Quiz Challenge
written by Jennifer Corr Morse
Here's the ultimate trivia and records Quiz Challenge book!
Take this book on the road, to parties, sleepovers, recess breaks, wherever you are with your friends and challenge them to a trivia quiz.
You can test your knowledge about animals, food, sports, toys, human body, science, entertainment, the world, and more...and the answers are in a special answer section so you can instantly determine whether you know your records trivia or not!
There are more than 350 exciting multiple-choice questions to challenge you with hours of reading fun! Illustrations and graphics support the challenge questions, but be sure to investigate your favorite topics and trivia by researching online or in books to discover even more interesting information to develop your knowledge base!
Scholastic has outdone itself this time by synthesizing trivia from their popular series of annual World Record Books to create the Ultimate Quiz Challenge! The book is organized by categories, and like all reference books it has a Table of Contents, Subject and Page Headings, and Index to find your favorite trivia content. The original series, the "Scholastic Book of World Records" has long ago surpassed our Guiness Book of Records series in circulation because at $10.99 it is more affordable and the size is easier to take along for hours of reading fun. The classic is still Guiness, but the take-along for Bay Farm school is Scholastic, and now the Ultimate Challenge will become another series must for our readers!
Be sure to check out the Book Trailer and see if you can measure up to the challenge with a sneak peak of the questions that await you! Coming soon to our Media Center Website we will feature our own Trivia Challenge Hunt with questions you create from your favorite Trivia and Record Books to challenge Bay Farm students!
We gave away over $300 worth of books during the Book Fair. You can see the online signup we used by clicking here. Watch the Book Trailer that shares the titles we gave away. they will be featured here so remember to sign up to be notified when new postings happen. Remember, all the titles you see will be entered into the Extremely Popular binder so that you can sign up for your chance to check out one of them soon! And when you read one of the books be sure to talk about it on our website, here, or on the Voicethread we will be creating together soon!
Our Fall BookFair may be over but the reading has just begun! Be sure to check back here to find out about the terrific titles we have added to our Library/Media Center shelves from our Book Fair profits! Here's the link to our Reading Saves the Day websitewhere you can learn more about the great titles from the BookFair! As you get a chance to read these titles be sure to comment on what you have read so others can learn more about the new books in our library...but don't spill the beans!
Click Here to go to our BookFair website to see student comments about books they can't wait to read!
During the last few days of the fair, students chose a book from the BookFair cases, read the back/jacket, then after a demo on how to use Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Borders, and Scholastic's book reviews and ratings, students used these sites to read more about their chosen book.
Then they used our website comment box to write a "Can't Wait to Read it" Review. Using Wallwisher they commented in a twitter like manner the title of a book they can't wait to read.
Take a look! Not bad for a first time ( and voluntary response) assignment!
