As part of our celebrations for Poetry Month, we IST librarians have accepted a challenge posed by Matthew Winner of The Busy Librarian blog to read every single book in a particular section of the library. Since April is Poetry Month we decided we’d try to read every poetry book with the call number 811. [...]
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Top 10 in March
March 31st, 2012 · No Comments · General Topics
Here’s the top ten books checked out in March. What was your favorite for the month of March? Click on the book cover to see our OPAC record for the book. If you sign in with your library username and password, you’ll be able to put a hold on the title. Click here for a [...]
IST Library-Parent Book Club Choice for April
March 28th, 2012 · 2 Comments · General Topics
We had a great discussion this morning in our book club meeting and two new members. I had a lot of fun and am excited about going on to our fourth meeting in April. Thanks, ladies, it’s always a pleasure to talk books with you. The book selection for March was Paul French’s Midnight in [...]
Movie War Horse is Now On
March 1st, 2012 · No Comments · General Topics
Steven Spielberg’s War Horse is now on the big screen and available at all major Tianjin cinemas. The movie is based on the book by the same title written by Michael Morpungo. Joey the horse recalls his experiences growing up on an English farm, his struggle for survival as a cavalry horse during World War [...]
Top Ten Books for February
March 1st, 2012 · No Comments · General Topics
The top ten books checked out in February include several Panda Books and a few old favorites. 1. Germs! An epic tale on a tiny scale, by Martin Howard. 2. Interrupting Chicken, by David Ezra Stein. 3. The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins. 4. We are in a Book! by Mo Willems 5. Catching Fire, [...]
Scholastic Book Club Orders Arrived
February 23rd, 2012 · No Comments · General Topics
The Scholastic Book Clubs orders we placed before the Chinese New Year break arrived this week. Thanks to the purchases of our community members, the IST library was able to acquire many excellent new titles for our library collection as well as many books for the ESL classrooms from grades 1 to 5. To see [...]
Fly Guy and the G2/3 Library Club
December 16th, 2011 · No Comments · Elementary Topics
The grade 2 and 3 Library Club has been very busy practicing their reading and oral performance skills. The students chose to dramatize two books from the popular Fly Guy series by Tedd Arnold, Shoo, Fly Guy and There Was a Lady Who Swallowed Fly Guy. The students wrote the script and Ms. Fang, the [...]
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Join Our Book Club!
December 15th, 2011 · No Comments · General Topics
We would like to invite all parents to join a book club to explore quality literature in English. A book club is a group of people who meet regularly to discuss a particular title all members have read. The discussion may center on the characters, the plot, the themes and the reactions of the book [...]
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Book Donation
December 15th, 2011 · No Comments · General Topics
Bo Kyeong in 8Q and Do Won Kim in 11C kindly donated many quality Korean books to the library, including a big series of biographies, famous fairy/folktales and the “Greatest 100” series. Bo Kyeong and Do Won, thank you for your generosity! The Korean community will definitely benefit from these. IST has been the grateful [...]
Successful Book Fair, Thanks!
December 15th, 2011 · No Comments · General Topics
The Beijing Star Kids Book Fair held on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week was very successful. There was a good selection of high quality and popular titles, as well as our Panda Book titles, which can be difficult to find elsewhere. Thanks to the purchases of our community over the two days, the library [...]
