We also heard some great reviews. You have all been doing some great reading over the holiday and we all enjoyed hearing what have been your favourites.

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Satine and Hannah both read the Magic Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton. They liked that every chapter ogf the book ia about a different story. They liked the characters in the book specially Moonface and Mrs. Washer.

Tomasina read Matilda by Roald Dahl and really liked it but didn’t like Mrs. Trunchbull. She was glad Matilda and Miss Honey ended up together.

Aidan read the book Cinderella. He didn’t enjoy it too much and felt it was boring.

Holly read the book and also watched the movie of Fantastic Mr. Fox. She liked both and loved how Mr. Fox was able to get out of trouble.

We then shared some great book reviews and two of our BookBusters received their 6^th and 12 month certificates.

One of our activities was to create a fun poem. We had to think of words that relate to fireworks and start with all the letters in the word Fireworks.  Well done everyone  – we had some interesting, fun and sparkling poems to listen to.

We then finished with a speed jigsaw race to see who would be first to finish the fireworks sky.

Hannah had enjoyed reading The Magic Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton. Her  favourite characters are Silky the Fairy and Moon Face.

Joseph read Captain Underpants Attack of the Talking Toilets by Dav Pilkey. It’s about an alien ship that turned all the toilets into killer toilets. He found the book  funny.

Beatrice had just read Aunt Effie’s Ark by Jack Lasenby. It’s about how Aunt Effie’s house gets turned into an ark.

Max had just read Asterix and the Goths. Asterix and his friend had to break down the dungeon several times to get in. They also needed a pinch of salt to make soup.

Satine is currently reading the Doctor is In a Judy Moody series. She thinks it is a good book and she can’t wait to get to the end.

Nathaniel is currently reading Peanuts Treasury comic book and it’s about practicing how to say eeek!

Navneet had enjoyed Bestfriends by Jackie Wilson. It’s about Alice and her bestfriend Gemma and their great times together. 

Arianna liked Dora at Follyfoot by Monica Dickens. It’s about an old horse that gets rescued.

Tomasina had just read Fantastic Mr. Fox. It’s about Mr. Fox who’s trying to get away from the hunters.

Conor read the book Captain Underpants by Dav Pilkey. He recommends it to boys and gave it a quadzillion stars.

Michael shared the Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney. He gave the book one thousand stars and said both boys and girls would like it.

Jack read the Magic Schoolbus at the Waterworks and says its a good non-fiction book because you get to learn how water is recycled. He gives it 20 million stars and recommends it to both girls and boys.

Jacob read The magic Schoolbus: Inside the Earth another non- fiction book. He likes the part where they saw giant ants underground. He gave it the all the number of stars he can think off and recommends it to all.

Gabriella is currently reading one of the Ramona Quimby series and recommends it to girls. She gives it a thousand stars.

Julianna had just read the Secret Seven by Enid Blyton and had really enjoyed it. She recommends it to everyone as well. She gives the book two thousand stars.

We then proceeded to do our book reviews and 7 Bookbusters shared the books they had read. Then we did a poem and story writing activity about fireworks. We had fun listening to what we had written as we read it out loud.

We then broke out into 3 groups and had a thrilling game of putting a firework puzzle together. We tried to beat each other’s time but in the end we all finished at the same time.  We browsed through the books in the booklist and issued the ones we like. Everybody had an explosively fun time!

This month we had a very special guest – local children’s book author and illustrator Ruth Paul.  We were very lucky to be given an inside look at how her picture books are created and Ruth also showed us some of the art she is working on for her next book – we’re looking forward to seeing the final product!  We began our session with some great reviews too – here are some of the books our BookBusters recommend:

The Secret of the Sirens by Julia Golding - This book is about a girl called Connie.  When she is at school, strange things start happening to her.  Some foxes start to follow her then she joins a group to fight evil spirits.  By Xandi

The Tygrine Cat by Inbali Iserles - This book is about cats and Egyptian mythology.  It is about a cat called Mati who finds out he is the Tygrine cat.  It is a very gripping book;  I couldn’t put it down!  By Xandi

Conor has just read Stink the Incredible Shrinking Kid and really enjoyed it. He recommends it to everyone and gave it a trillion star rating.

Phoebe read the book about the life of Jacqueline Wilson, a popular children’s fiction writer entitled Jacky Daydream. She likes it because it is about the childhood of Jacqueline Wilson.

Michael shared a book about the kid spy Alex Rider and found the book filled with adventure and mystery. He gave it 25 stars.

Our meeting this month was about “Stories from other countries” . We first welcomed Phoebe as our new Bookbuster. Then we had a Countries Quiz and National Costume Match-up Quiz. We read a folk tale  The Empty Pot by Demi from China. Owen and his brother Jason shared the pictures of their trip back to South Africa. They also shared an animal book with us from South Africa.   In the end, we looked through some fun stuff from other countries, including beautiful clothes from the Philippines, fans and Majiang Game from Japan and China, different dolls from other countries, like Russia, Japan, China, Greece, Mongolia,etc. As we looked through these fun stuff, we exchanged our knowledge about other countries as well. It was really a fun session. Thank you all for coming. Looking forward to seeing you next month.