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Panda Book Award 2011 Winners

February 14th, 2012 · No Comments · General Topics

In all the excitement about the Panda Book Awards voting, we forgot to post the winners on to this blog! Here they are. If you would like to download and print out this A4 size announcement, click here for the pdf file. Panda Announcement 2011

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March Selection for Library Book Club

February 14th, 2012 · No Comments · General Topics

The IST Library Parent Book Club will be meeting on Wednesday, 7 March, from 8 to 9 a.m. All parents are IST are welcome to register for the book club. Please use the form on the left sidebar or see us at the library. The selected title for March is Out of Shadows, by Jason [...]

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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 fair next week

December 7th, 2011 · No Comments · General Topics

Books make the best gifts.

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Looking back at some of the award-winning books of 2011

November 29th, 2011 · No Comments · General Topics

The year 2011 is coming to a close and many publications are starting to come out with their “Best Books of 2011″ lists for the year. Some that you may want to take a look at are The New York Times “Notable Children’s Books of 2011″ ; writers for The Guardian share their favourites in “Books of the Year 2011″. This [...]

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Panda Book Award Winners!

March 14th, 2011 · No Comments · General Topics

And the winners are….. for the Younger Readers category (nursery to grade 2)                               for the Middle Readers category (grades 3 to 6)                                     [...]

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Reading is Fun!

February 24th, 2011 · No Comments · General Topics

This is Jeremy Soulage, a French student in Gr. 9. Once finish reading the book La cité perdue de Z Jeremy would like to introduce it to more people as he really likes the story while it was not so easy for him to read though it is in French. This book is the French [...]

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Panda Book Voting This Week

February 14th, 2011 · No Comments · General Topics

Time to vote! Voting on the Panda Book Awards starts today at IST and will continue throughout the week. The Panda Book Awards is an initiative started by a group of international schools in Beijing and by IST. The aim of the Panda Books is to promote reading for enjoyment and to build community. There [...]

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Get Your Panda Award Bookmarks

October 29th, 2010 · 1 Comment · General Topics

We have some beautiful Panda Award bookmarks to give away. Come to the library and claim yours. Elementary students who check out this week will receive a bookmark during their library classes. Secondary students need to check out a Panda book or post a review on the library OPAC.

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Where The Mountain Meets The Moon

October 26th, 2010 · No Comments · General Topics

Grace Lin is the award-winning author and illustrator of The Year of The Dog and The Year of The Rat, as well as picture books such as The Ugly Vegetables and The Dim Sum for Everyone!. Her newest novel Where The Mountain Meets The Moon is one of this year’s Newbery Honor books, and is [...]

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