We had our final meeting of the IST Library Parent Book Club yesterday. We had a lively discussion of the book, Please Look After Mom, by Korean author Kyung Sook Shin. We agreed that the book was certainly distinctive because of its second person narrative and that we see our parents more in their role [...]
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Book Talk: Trickster Tales
May 9, 2013 · 1 Comment · 2012-2013, Elementary Topics
Trickster tales are a special type of folk tales in which weaker characters get the best of stronger characters. These are some of my particularly favorite stories. They’re perfect for a first library session with grade 1 who are starting to inquire into the ways we tell stories. I read aloud the first two of [...]
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Skyped with Squish
May 3, 2013 · 3 Comments · 2012-2013, Elementary Topics
We had the great pleasure this morning of Skyping with authors Jennifer L. Holm and Matthew Holm, who won the Panda Book Awards for Middle Readers this year with their graphic novel Squish. Squish is the story of an amoeba who, inspired by his favorite comic strip super hero, always tries to do what’s right. [...]
New and Improved Early Reader Section
March 22, 2013 · Comments Off · 2012-2013, Elementary Topics
Please come to the library to see our new and improved Early Reader collection. These are books that are “just right” to build confidence in our younger readers. They feature large fonts, simple language structures and lots of illustrations to help understand the text. We had not had much circulation of these early readers. Our [...]
Birthday Boy To Go Around the World 3 Times!
March 22, 2013 · 1 Comment · 2012-2013, General Topics
Well, he’s going to go around the world three times thanks to the magic of books. Il Sun is our latest IST Library Birthday Book Club recipient. For his birthday donation, Il Sun received Around the World: Three Remarkable Journeys, by Matt Phelan. Around the World is a graphic novel with fictionalized accounts of the [...]
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Library-Parent Book Club for April 2013
March 20, 2013 · Comments Off · 2012-2013, General Topics
We had a very dynamic discussion this morning in our March session. The book was Secret Daughter, by Shilpi Somaya Gowda. We talked about motherhood, family and multi-cultural relationships. We all enjoyed the book and we probably could have talked for a lot longer, as we could relate to many of the themes. Thanks to [...]
Learn German Business Strategies in Chinese
March 8, 2013 · Comments Off · 2012-2013, General Topics
A big thank you to author Sonja Franzl-Zinkle for donating her book, Modern German Business Etiquette Guide, which she co-wrote with Oliver Noelle and Alexa Strohschein. Ms. Zinkle was an IST parent only a couple of years ago. We are delighted that she remembered us and has given us a copy of her book to [...]
Hooray for New Books!
March 2, 2013 · 1 Comment · 2012-2013, General Topics
Who doesn’t love new books? We certainly do! We have a brand new batch of books for the IST community. The first batch is a group of books we were able to acquire for free from the Scholastic Book Club orders. IST gets bonus points for every 10RMB our community spends, and we can use [...]
Parent Book Club March 2013
February 20, 2013 · Comments Off · 2012-2013, General Topics
The IST Library-Parent Book Club met this morning to discuss the book, The Lost and Forgotten Languages of Beijing, by Riuyan Xu. We talked about the book’s themes of language, communication, relationships and isolation. We all agreed that while we could relate to the difficulties of communicating when one is not fluent in a language, [...]
Snakes Speak in Many Tongues at IST
February 18, 2013 · 2 Comments · 2012-2013, General Topics
We are now in the Year of the Snake. I thought that I would start off the new year with a post on our latest non-fiction titles about snakes, and I was surprised and pleased to see that so many of our newer titles are from our World Languages collection. We are fortunate at IST [...]
