Sign up for BookBub, a free daily email that notifies you about deep discounts on ebooks. You can choose the types of titles you’d like to get notified about that match your interests— with categories ranging from children’s books to cookbooks. Your daily e-mail will include limited-time offers that become available on retailers like Amazon’s Kindle store, Barnes & Noble’s Nook store, Apple’s iBookstore, and others. You can then choose to download a title directly to your supported device.
Imagine that you have been chosen to design a book cover and could use any art medium at all (paint, crayons, markers, collage materials, etc).
All students in Kindergarten through Eighth Grade may participate and can pick up a piece of poster board in the library. Instructions are here Book cover contest flyer 2013
Deadline: Monday morning, October 21st, in order to be viewed by our panel of judges.
Winners will receive gift certificates to spend at the East Woods Fall Book Fair.
Have fun being creative!
Author James Patterson is a great advocate for young readers. His site, ReadKiddo Read currently has the “Ultimate Summer Reading List” including great titles for readers of all ages.
DO NOW! In addition, the site is offering a chance at a $25 gift certificate to an independent bookstore. Submit your child’s Summer Book Bucks pledge (a promise to read at least four books this summer). Winners will be announced at the beginning of August, and more Summer Book Bucks sweepstakes will run through the month of August.
As you may know, Newsweek Magazine has ended publication of its weekly print edition. As of the beginning of the year, the magazine has been renamed Newsweek Global, and all future content will be digital only. Our library’s print subscription has been converted to allow us access to this new format.
To read selections of the current digital content, you may access the Daily Beast web site.
To read the full current issue and access previous issues online, you will need to connect to the Newsweek Web Reader Issue Library
Please contact Mrs. Lorbert if you need help accessing the new digital content.
The new version offers readers an interactive multimedia experience with animated covers that incorporate video and audio. The format is certainly attention-getting , but readers not accustomed to reading their news online or on digital devices will need learn to navigate the content displayed. For the most part, clicking on screen arrows, swiping and tapping will be all that is needed to connect to a story or feature.
Will you miss flipping though the pages of the print edition or are you pleased with the switch to the new format?
Spain: At midnight on New Year’s eve, people eat 12 grapes in the hope to have 12 happy months in the coming year.
Greece: New Year’s day is also the Festival of St. Basil, one of the founders of the Greek Orthodox Church. One of the foods served is Vassilopitta, or St. Basil’s cake.
A coin is baked inside, and whoever finds the coin in their piece of cake will be especially lucky during the year.
Denmark: People throw old dishes at the doors of friends’ homes for good luck. Finding a big pile of broken dishes on New Year’s morning means that you have lots of friends!
Switzerland: A drop of cream is dripped onto the floor on New Year’s Day to symbolize richness in the new year.
**BONUS GAME**
New Year’s Online Word Search Find all 10 hidden words before the time is up. Words can run horizontally, vertically, diagonally, and backwards. Scroll down to read the instructions and to find the
button. There are new words each time you play!
Our Fall Book Fair will open on Wednesday Oct. 24th, Parent-Teacher Conference Day and will be open from 8:30 am-3 pm in the Library. The fair will continue through Tuesday, October 30th, during school hours. You’ll find a great selection of books and related gift items.
Can’t make it to the fair? A selection of items will be available for purchase online. You can visit our Online Book Fair website by clicking on the icon below. The Online Fair will be open through November 7th, and all items ordered online will be shipped to the school at no cost to you. 
Classroom wish lists will be posted, and you will be able to donate books to the Library or your child’s classroom. There will be raffle prizes for book donations. For every $10 you spend on a book to be donated back to EWS, you get one raffle ticket for the prize of your choice, including Legos, Gift Certificates and more! Books and prizes will be on display in the library through November 6th, Fathers Visiting Day.
Welcome back, everybody! Hope you all had a great summer break and found lots of good books to read.
Library circulation will be starting very soon, and we have so many great books from which to choose. When you read for enjoyment, you can learn about new things or even escape into another world. Reading is always an adventure, and that will be our theme for this coming year:
So stop by the library, and I’ll be happy to help you find just the right book!
The new games on our library site will help keep your skills sharp while you’re having fun. Most of the games are online interactive ones that can be played on most computers and on devices that support flash animation. Some of the games are simple, but there are also few challenging ones.
Warning: these games will make you smarter!
Test your general knowledge and do a good deed at the same time. For each correct answer, 10 grains of rice are donated to hungry people around the globe through the United Nations World Food Programme.
The opening game is vocabulary, but other categories include math, chemistry, geography, and foreign languages, including French and Spanish.
It’s easy to play: just the click the correct answer from one of four possible choices. If you answer correctly, the next question is a little harder.
Warning: This game may make you smarter.
Vote by posting a comment below, or come to our library and cast your vote on a paper ballot. Everyone is encouraged to vote!
What is Your Favorite Children’s Book of All Time?
_____ Goodnight Moon 
_____ No, David! 
_____ The Very Hungry 
Caterpillar
_____ Other title. Please write the name of your favorite below:
_____________________________________________________
______ I am a child in ______________________
______ I am a family member of a child at EWS
______ I am a teacher at EWS
Books get my vote!
