Digital Booktalks

Try looking at these digital booktalks and let me know what you think.

Go to http://www.nisdtx.org/120820731141528687/site/default.asp and click on digital booktalk

Book Club

Book Club will hold its first meeting of the new school year on Monday, Sept 22 during the period 3 study hall. We will discuss posting to this blog, Letters about Literatue, participating in the Abraham Lincoln High School Book Award program and choose books to read for the next meeting. Of course there will be cookies!

Books into Movies - New Update

2/14/08: The Spiderwick Chronicles by Tony DiTerlizzi, Holly Black

3/14/08: Horton Hears a Who! by Dr. Seuss

5/16/08: Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis

10/08 - City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau

11/21/08: Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling

12/08 - Twilight by Stephanie Meyer

Sometime in '08: Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment by James Patterson

Sometime in '08: Cirque du Freak by Darran ShanSometime in '08: Eloise in Paris by Kay Thompson

1/09: Inkheart by Cornelia Funke

2/6/09: Coraline by Neil Gaiman

11/6/09: Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl

11/09: The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

A Great and Terrible Beauty has also been announced, but as of yet has no release date.

Alex Flinn visit

Alex Flinn will be coming to Mater Dei on March 10. Her books include Breathing Underwater, Fade to Black, Nothing to Lose, Breaking Point, Diva and her latest book Beastly. I just read Beastly this past weekend and really liked it.

Books into Movies

Watch for these movies based on books to be released:

The Dark is Rising---Oct 2o77
http://www.walden.com/walden/experience/dark/index.php?initClip=0

The Golden Compass--- December 2007
http://www.goldencompassmovie.com/

The Water Horse -December 2007
http://www.walden.com/walden/properties/water/index.php

Blood and Chocolate---January 2008
http://www.mydarkestsecrets.com/

The Spiderwick Chronicles --- Feb. 2008
http://www.spiderwickchronicles.com/

Nim's Island --- April 2008
http://www.walden.com/walden/properties/nim/index.php

The City of Ember---Oct 2008
http://www.walden.com/walden/properties/ember/index.php

Keep watching for these....
Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (May 2008)
The Lovely Bones (2008)
Lord of the Rings Prequel (2009)
The Hobbit (2009)

Summer Learning

July 2, 2007

My goal this summer is to learn more about web 2.0 and set up a blog and/or wiki for my book club. I'm working on the CSLA School Library Learning 2.0 and taking a few classes at the library system. I'd also like to work on editing and organizing pictures from my last few trips. After making a late start I hope to catch up on things during July.