I would like all of you beautiful readers, to welcome Lohgan Nash, our newest guest reviewer here at The Book Gryffin. Like Tanaya and Tegan, Lohgan is in Year 7 at our school and is very talented young man…look forward to hearing more from Lohgan guys The sister, Josie, is a knife-thrower in a magician’s [...]
I am always delighted when parents in our school community take the time to drop in to the library. Lately, I have had several dropping in to ask me what books they should buy their children and young adults for Christmas. I have also had several emails asking me the same thing. I decided to [...]
I am relatively new to the use of Prezi as a tool, but am loving its implications for alternatives to Keynote and Power Point. Whilst wandering around the Prezi.com site, I stumbled upon this fantastic Prezi made by Heather.S. Enjoy Out of this World on Prezi
We havent heard from her for a while, but I finally have another guest review for you all from the lovely Tanaya. Not due for release till January of next year, lucky Tanaya, has already read and reviewed….. The Demon Trappers Jana Oliver There are heaps of words to explain this book, awesome, terrific, fantastic. [...]
Excuse me while we interrupt our scheduled program for this special announcement! Just wanted to share this little piece of info with all of you! For those of you who use Wordle to make Word Clouds, whether for your own entertainment or to share with your students, have a look at Tagxedo. Simply click on [...]
This past Friday marked for me, the greatest day of my entire career. When Warwick and I discussed him doing Tomorrow When The War Began- John Marsden, as a class novel for his Year 8 class, (what seems like years ago now, but in reality was Term One this year), we simply thought it would [...]
I realise this is not a book review. However. I do feel the topic is important enough to warrant my talking about it here, especially since I know a great any of my subscribers are Teachers or Young Adults. I do not wish to generalise nor assume, so forgive me if it seems as though [...]
The Project – Brian Falkner First of all lets just say- round of applause to Brian Falkner. I absolutely loved this book. It was so….. Interesting! The book was about two boys, Tommy and Luke, who come across a very, very old book in the library when moving as many old books as possible to [...]
I don’t know about the rest of you, but I am always fascinated to hear the ‘story behind the story’, especially when its the back story for a novel that I loved. Recently, at the Text Novel Presentation Evening, Lia Hills, Author of The Beginners Guide To Living, spoke about her inspiration for writing her [...]
Today saw the Year 7 students at Manor Lakes, their teachers and I, fortunate enough to spend an hour listening to the very engaging, hilariously funny and quite charming Michael Grant, author of the GONE series. Michael stopped over with us on his Australian book tour and I would like to extend a HUGE thank [...]
