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Happy birthday Lewis Carrol!

January 27, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Who is Lewis Carrol’s you might ask?  From Wikipedia and Rodrigo Siquira’s site: 

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson better known by the pen name Lewis Carrol was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer.  The son of a clergyman and the firstborn of 11 children, Carrol began at an early age to entertain himself and his family with magic tricks, marionette shows, and poems written for homemade newspapers. From 1846 to 1850 he attended Rugby School; he graduated from Christ Church College, Oxford, in 1854.

His most famous writings are Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass as well as the poems “The Hunting of the Snark” and “Jabberwocky”,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Do you have your Frindle?

January 8, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Checkout Frindle; a funny book by Andrew Clements
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When he decides to turn his fifth grade teacher’s love of the dictionary around on her, clever Nick Allen invents a new word and begins a chain of events that quickly moves beyond his control.

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Cool Sites

December 22, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Do you want to know where kids go online to have fun? Check out the cool sites on the Library’s Kids’ page Cool Sites

Cool sites

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