World Book Day events @ KGV

Thursday March 2nd is World Book Day. This is an annual event supporting books and reading. It began in the UK, to encourage reading for pleasure. KGV joins the celebration! Events to look out for include:

• Teachers reading to their class
• “Guess who’s reading” photo competition
• Paddyfield book fair in the library (10am - 3:30 pm)
• “When Books go to Hollywood” Quiz - look for the book and DVD display in the library.

Check the library web page for more.

Get ready for World Book Day

KGV celebrates World Book Day on 2nd March. Start now by trying to guess which staff member is reading a favourite book. Give your answers under "comments", mentioning the book and teacher.
See more photos at our World Book Day photo page.

Jeeves To Retire

Jeeves, of Ask Jeeves, has been on-line for ten years and will soon retire as the face of this popular search engine. The site will continue under the simpler name ask.com. You can see more about the change and send Jeeves you best wishes at the official retirement site.
To learn more about ask.com, and how to use it for your assignment research, go to the KGV library's search engine page.

Painting blog

If you are an art student, you might be interested in A Painting a Day, a blog by Duane Keiser, an artist in Virginia USA. For this blog he paints a new painting every day (starting October 2004). They are postcard sized oil paintings of everyday objects (e.g. today's chocoloate). Paintings like this remind us to open our eyes to see ordinary things in different and beautiful ways.

Valentine's Day

"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind." -- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

To all those celebrating Valentine's Day, we hope you have a lovely day.

For those not celebrating, here's some other February 14th trivia, from Answers.com:

1876 - Alexander Graham Bell applies for a patent for the telephone,as does Elisha Gray.
1946 - ENIAC (for "Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer"), the first general-purpose electronic computer, is unveiled at the University of Pennsylvania.
1966 - Australian currency is decimalised.
2003 - The death of Dolly the sheep, first cloned mammal

And in Denmark it is Gaekkebrev - a day for gift exchange by school kids

What this librarian is reading

Small Island by Andrea Levy was the Orange Prize winner of 2004. I am finding it a really "good read": the passionate writing makes the reader feel involved with the characters. The story is interwoven between the viewpoints of the different characters, and the voices are all compelling. Set during and just after the Second World War, "Andrea Levy handles the weighty themes of empire, prejudice, war and love, with a lightness of touch and a generosity of spirit that challenges and uplifts the reader" (from the back cover).

See more about this book at http://www.orangeprize.co.uk/2004prize/winner/

Available on the senior fiction shelves, F6/LEV.

The Chronicles of Narnia

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe has finally arrived in Hong Kong!

For those who saw the movie - what did you think? Was it too long? Were the talking animals realistic? Did you think the battle scenes were scary? Was the air conditioning in the theatre so cold you actually thought you were in Narnia?

Click here for the official movie site.