World Book Day 2011 !!

 Me and Mr Twit at school!

It's that time of the year again when I have to bite the bullet and fish out a costume for World Book Day.  Being our school Librarian I just have to go in something good so.... this is this year's effort!  My gorgeous daughter just happened to have a crocodile suit (like you do) so here is:

The Enormous Crocodile (literally) - a great story for kids and grown-ups too!  Good job I've been trying to stick to my diet!  Now.... what shall I go as next year?!!!

My Library Competition.

I've had a competition running in the school library throughout February. I didn't think of the photo idea myself but did come up with using it for Valentine's Day. It's been very popular with both children and staff! I may have made it a little too hard as even I had trouble guessing who was who and I took them!! lol I added some clues after a couple of weeks!!

xxsue

Guess Who?

Hi all, it's that time of the year again, yes, World Book Day 2010. Doesn't seem a year since I was doing this last time. Well have you guessed yet - it involves chocolate!! I thought as I had a purple jacket and it meant I could have chocolate that I'd go as .... Willy Wonka .... this year! Quite easy to put together, hat, cane and sunglasses and a waistcoat from ebay for 99p (what a bargain, it's covered with pearls and beads!!) Anyway here I am in the staffroom at the start of the day when I had a 'whole' bar of chocolate (it got shared out at the end of the day with the kids!!) A great day though, all the staff dressed up again this year and the variety of kids costumes were amazing. Only sorry that I can't really put them on here. Now... ideas for next year anyone?!!! :)

Not a card!

This is the latest display I made for our school library entitled 'Hot Books for Cold Days'. Not my idea originally but I adapted it for us. I made the fire from an old cardboard box for a school production of Scrooge a few years ago and saved it as I thought it might come in handy again. I constructed a surround and mantlepiece around it from card, boxes and sugarpaper and added a paper rug! . Notice my favourite characters in a frame on the mantlepiece! I then tried to find red covered books and those about hot, fire etc in the library but seeing as we've just had an audit and lost around 300 books it was a bit of a search!! lol For Christmas I decorated it with tinsel and had 2 stockings hanging next to the fire. I wished that the fire worked for the last week or so, it's been jolly cold in school and I would have just loved to have curled up in front of it with a good book!! lol

Catty books Display!!

Whilst tidying the school library I noticed that we had quite a few cat books/stories so I made a little display with them with some pawprints. Someone keeps treading on my mousehole though, painful, lol!! I've hidden a little mouse in the library too for the children to find. He's in the Mammals section but no-one has spotted him yet!! lol..... shh don't tell!!

Autumn Library Display.

This is a quick display I made for the start of the Autumn term to coincide with Roald Dahl Day. I made a big Wonka Bar (on the left) in which I collected votes for the children's favourite Roald Dahl story. The winner was 'The Twits'!!

(I quite like this one too, although I voted for 'Danny Champion of the World'. I loved the bit where they put the sleeping tablets in the raisins!)

Harry Potter Eat Your Heart Out!!

In honour of World Book Day my school had a fancy dress day today. The theme was to dress up as your favourite character from a book! Well as I'm a big Harry Potter fan (in more ways than one) I thought this would be fairly simple! What do you think? Seeing the photos though, there's one thing I would do if my wand was real and that would be to 'expelliamus' a few of those chins!!! lol