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 [...]
Entries Tagged as 'donation'
Birthday Boy To Go Around the World 3 Times!
March 22, 2013 · 1 Comment · 2012-2013, General Topics
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Donation of Chinese Painting
February 20, 2013 · 1 Comment · 2012-2013, General Topics
The grandmother of Yolanda Xie in grade 10, Mrs. Hou, graciously donated one of her newest paintings to the IST library. It is a lovely painting of bamboo. Bamboo is one of the four favorite plants along with Chinese plum, orchid and chrysanthemum, the so-called Four Men of Honor by the Chinese. We feel honored [...]
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 [...]
Stay Pink this Weekend
October 13, 2012 · Comments Off · 2012-2013, General Topics
It was great to see so many IST students in pink this Friday. The elementary student council raised over 3000RMB. The pinkness was obvious at the grade 3 assembly on Friday morning. I made a short announcement at the end of the assembly and was delighted to see a sea of pink in the theater [...]
Pink Ribbon Day on 12 October
October 8, 2012 · 2 Comments · 2012-2013, Elementary Topics
The Elementary Student Council is hosting a Pink Ribbon Day this Friday, Oct. 12. They are encouraging all students and staff to wear pink and to make a donation to help fight breast cancer. Funds will be sent to the Tianjin International Community Center. Click here to download the flyer. In honor of Pink Ribbon Day and [...]
Book Donation
December 15, 2011 · Comments Off · 2011-2012, 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 [...]
Generous Donation of Korean Books
February 28, 2011 · Comments Off · 2010-2011, General Topics
The IST library received a large donation of Korean language books last week. We thank Bo Kyeong and Do Won Kim for their generous donation. Please note that we cannot always incorporate donations into the library collection. Books that cannot be included with our general collection will be placed on the Swap Shelf outside [...]
Donation from Chan family
May 21, 2010 · Comments Off · 2009-2010, General Topics
We are delighted to add two books to our library collection: Once Upon a Bell Tree and A Little Grain of Rice, both by Theresa Lim Mun Sim. These have been graciously donated to IST by her grandchildren, Rachel and Eric Chan, who attend our school since 2008. Both books are memoirs from Ms. Sim’s [...]
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