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Book suggestion for the month of MARCH 2023

For kids: George Shrinks – William Joyce

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Book suggestion for the month of FEBRUARY 2023

For kids: Where the Wild Things Are – Maurice Sendak

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Book suggestion for the month of JANUARY 2023

For kids: The Tiger Who Came to Tea – Judith Kerr

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Book suggestion for the month of DECEMBER 2022

For kids:  Pete the Cat saves Christmas – Eric Litwin

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Book suggestion for the month of NOVEMBER 2022

For kids: Pete the Cat The First Thanksgiving – Kimberly and James Dean

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Book suggestion for the month of OCTOBER 2022

For kids: Pop-Up Peekaboo Pumpkin – Clare Lloyd

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Book suggestion for the month of SEPTEMBER 2022

For kids: The Colour Monster – Anna Llenas

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Book suggestion for the month of AUGUST 2022

For kids: Eleven Adventurous Ladies – Oli Helle Thomassen

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Book suggestion for the month of JULY 2022

For kids: Possum Magic – Mem Fox Julie Vivas

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Book suggestion for the month of JUNE 2022

For kids: Alice In Wonderland – Lewis Caroll

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Book suggestion for the month of MAY 2022

For kids: We’re going on a bear hunt – Michael Rosen Helen Oxenbury

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Book suggestion for the month of APRIL 2022

For kids: Paddington – Michael Bond

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For adults: Paris for One and Other Stories – Jojo Moyes

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Book suggestion for the month of MARCH 2022

For kids: The Very Hungry Caterpillar – Eric Carle

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For adults: Where the Crawdads Sing – Delia Owens

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Book suggestion for the month of FEBRUARY 2022

For kids: The Enchanted Wood – Enid Blyton

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For adults: The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro

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Book suggestion for the month of JANUARY 2022

For kids: The Snowman – Raymond Briggs

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For adults: The Braid by Laetitia Colombani

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Book suggestion for the month of DECEMBER 2021

For kids: How The Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr.Seuss

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For young and old!: Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

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Book suggestion for the month of NOVEMBER 2021

For kids: Pete the Cat I Love My White Shoes – Eric Litwin

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For adults: What Can I Do?: My Path from Climate Despair to Action – Jane Fonda

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Book suggestion for the month of OCTOBER 2021

For kids: Today is Monday by Eric Carle

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For adults: The Paris Secret – Natasha Lester

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Book suggestion for the month of SEPTEMBER 2021

For kids: Dr Seuss’s ABC

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For adults: The Sunrise – Victoria Hislop

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Book suggestion for the month of AUGUST 2021

For kids: A Fish Out Of Water by Helen Palmer

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For adults: One August Night – Victoria Hislop

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Book suggestion for the month of JULY 2021

For kids: James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl

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For adults: Open An Autobiography by Andre Agassi

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Book suggestion for the month of JUNE 2021

For kids: Put Me In The Zoo by Robert Lopshire

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For adults: The Educated – Tara Westover

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Book suggestion for the month of MAY 2021

For kids: Are You My Mother? – P.D Eastman

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For adults: Murder on the Orient Express – Agatha Christie

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Book suggestion for the month of APRIL 2021

For kids: Robert the Rose Horse – Joan Heilbroner

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For adults: When Nietzsche Wept – Irvin D. Yalom

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Book suggestion for the month of MARCH 2021

For kids: Green Eggs and Ham – Dr. Seuss

For adults: The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James

Book suggestion for the month of FEBRUARY 2021

For kids: Koala Lou – Mem Fox

For adults: The Thread – Victoria Hislop

Book suggestion for the month of JANUARY 2021

For kids: The Snowy Day – Ezra Jack Keats

For adults: The Nightingale – Kristin Hannah

 

 

International Holocaust Remembrance Day

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On 27 January every year, it is Holocaust Memorial Day.

It’s a day for everyone to remember the millions of people who were killed, or whose lives have been changed, by an event in history called the Holocaust.

On this day we also remember the millions of people who were killed or have been affected by Nazi persecution and terrible crimes committed during conflicts in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur.

A young girl whose tragic tale from WWII became a story of hope is Anne Frank. I first came upon her diary as a teenager in high school and ever since then her story and amazing strength in character continue to move me. I never miss the opportunity to share her story and quotes in the classroom as her reamarkable spirit in the most trying of times should never be forgotten!

Over the years I have enjoyed the following versions of her story and of course a visit to the Secret Annex, The Anne Frank House Museum :

  • I’ve found that there is always some beauty left—in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can all help you.
  • I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.
  • People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn’t stop you from having your own opinion.
  • How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
  • In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.
  • Where there’s hope, there’s life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.
  • Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
  • You can be lonely even when you are loved by many people, since you are still not anybody’s one and only.
  • I don’t think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.
  • It’s really a wonder that I haven’t dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.