Anderson County Library's Starburst Storytelling Festival ended on Thursday evening. Wright Clarkson from Charlotte was the featured teller the final night. Tim Lowry told stories Monday evening and was the featured artist-in-residence at Anderson University during the festival. He has visited Concord a number of times, as early as 1991, when he was still in college. He was here this past February working with Mrs. Solesbee and the Fifth Grade classes. On Monday, October 19, Concord's fifth grade students heard him perform.

If you missed this year's Festival, make plans to attend next year. It really is an event you shouldn't miss.

Parents, please sign up and use the Concord School Library and the web page as your source for information. See the Parent Registration page for further instructions.

Visit Flu.gov for information regarding precautions to take during the upcoming flu season, particularly this FACT SHEET.

Check out the pictures of these members at 2009 August  Birthday Book Club Members, 2009 September BBC Members, 2009 October BBC Members or the slideshows.

Attention Summer Readers

Due Friday, Sept. 4, 2009.

Be sure to finalize your summer reading forms by adding up your total number of pages you read this summer. Turn in the completed form to the Concord library by Friday, September 4. Make sure your total number of pages appears on the front of your form.

Congratulations to the Concord Faculty. We have a lot of readers on our faculty! 

Check back to the library web page to see who were the Concord Summer Readers. I've been reading; have you?  

We have two new lists for 2009-2010 school year. You can find these at the public library this summer. So get a head start and read.

Picture Book List

Dogku	Clements, Andrew
Mind your Manners, B.B. Wolf	Sierra, Judy
Woolbur	Helakoski, Leslie
Before You Were Mine	Boelts, Maribeth
Story of Charles Atlas, Strong Man	McCarthy, Meghan
Twenty-Six Princesses	Horowitz, Dave
Duck at the Door	Urbanovic, Jackie
The Giant of Seville : a "Tall" Tale Based on a True Story	Andreasen, Dan
Big Bad Wolves at School	Krensky, Stephen
Papa and the Pioneer Quilt	Van Leeuwen, Jean
Fred Stays with Me	Coffelt, Nancy
Wolf's Coming!	Kulka, Joe
On Meadowview Street	Cole, Henry
Martina the Beautiful Cockroach : a Cuban Folktale	Deedy, Carmen Agra
A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever	Frazee, Marla
Grace for President	DiPucchio, Kelly S
Duck, Duck, Goose	Hills, Tad.
First the Egg	Seeger, Laura Vaccaro.
Badger's Fancy Meal	Kasza, Keiko
Nic Bishop Frogs.	Bishop, Nic

Children's Book List

Attack of the Turtle	Drew Carlson
The Aurora County All-Stars	Deborah Wiles
Brendon Buckley’s Universe and Everything in It	Sundee Tucker Frazier
The Castle Corona	Sharon Creech
Dragon’s Egg	Sarah L. Thomson
Eleven	Patricia Reilly Giff
Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree	Lauren Tarshis
A Friendship for Today	Pat McKissack
Lawn Boy	Gary Paulsen
Leepike Ridge	Nathan D. Wilson
The Lemonade War	Jacqueline Davies
Me and the Pumpkin Queen	Marlane Kennedy
The Mysterious Benedict Society	Trenton Lee Stewart
The Mysterious Case of the Allbright Academy	Diane Stanley
No Talking	Andrew Clements
On the Wings of Heroes	Richard Peck
Paint the Wind	Pam Munoz Ryan
Rickshaw Girl	Mitali Perkins
Swindle	Gordon Korman
Two-minute Drill	Mike Lupica

Thank you students and teachers for participating in the 2009 Library survey. Watch for results at a later

Kindergartener Creed shares his stories with author Michael Finklea during the autograph session.

At the South Carolina Association of School Librarians' conference held in Greenville March 11 to 13, I attended a session that introduced me to the International Children's Digital Library.

This is a wonderful resource for all of us. The site has hundreds of picture books on line ready to read. These books are available in many different languages too.

Visit www.icdlbooks.org to see the books and languages available.

On September 24, 2008, Lester Laminack visited Concord. He has been a teacher and is now a consultant and writer of professional books. He has also authored several books for children.

• Snow Day (brand new Sept. 07)
• Saturdays and Teacakes*
• Trevor's Wiggly-Wobbly Tooth
• The Sunsets of Miss Olivia Wiggins
• Jake's 100th Day of School

*illustrated by Chris Soentpiet, who came to Concord a couple of years ago.

Teachers were excited about having him come back in September 2008 and share tips about writing so they can improve writing instruction. First grade teachers recently received copy of Lester's newest book about teaching poetry so he explained how the book was to be used. .

Documents regarding South Carolina Book Awards

Check these files for schedules.

Items for fifth grade classes.

Poetry Power Point