MCDS Book Corner

It has been a very busy and very exciting time here in the library~We have been working hard to make our new library catalog friendly and accessible as well as making connections with the curriculum work done in the classrooms.

We paired with Lower School music teacher Carolyn Balfe on some titles to read to Kindergarten and First Grade. First we read Sebastian; A book about Bach by Jeannette Winter and then Geraldine, the Music Mouse by Leo Lionni. The children really loved listening to both of these books and yet had some questions about why there weren’t any photographs of Sebastian Bach~They were also very excited to share any instrument playing that they do, which is always very exciting to hear about.

Fourth graders in Kyle and Mel’s classes continue to hear the book titles mentioned in previous posts, but I apologize for not including the title heard by Cynthia Lee’s class~They are listening to Dave at Night by Gail Carson Levine. This is an exciting story about Dave who ends up in an orphanage after his father dies. It is a cold and strict environment in the orphanage and nothing like the mystery that exists outside the orphanage walls~jazz musicians, swindlers, parties and mystifying strangers. Dave will be searching for a home and possibly friendship amid all this excitement and change.

Clara’s class is listening to The Shakespeare Stealer by Gary Blackwood. This is a fast paced historical novel tying together Shakespeare’s Hamlet along with friendship, loyalty and survival. Gary Blackwood’s other titles include similar themes of “boy against world” so if your child is enjoying this, you may point them in the direction of some of his other titles: Shakespeare’s Scribe, Shakespeare’s Spy and Wild Timothy.