Interactive E-Books

Check out these videos about interactive E-books. Is this the sort of thing you imagine the library having in the future?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FPqqA712Rs&NR=1

http://fwd.channel5.com/gadget-show/videos/challenge/21st-century-author-vs-comic-book-full-challenge 

Trailer for the Hunger Games Released!

The trailer for the Hunger Games film is now available to watch on Youtube (see the link below). It looks awesome! It's not out until March though, so there is plenty of time to get excited, and read (or re-read) the books!
What are you opinions on the actors they've picked?

British Library Exhibition: Royal Manuscripts: The Genius of Illumination

A new exhibition at the British Library showcases 150 of the best illustrated manuscripts from their collection.
If you can't make it along to the library itself. Check out their website for online images from the exhibition and from some of their other manuscripts.
http://www.bl.uk//whatson/exhibitions/royalman/about/index.html

The British Library have also created an app for those of you lucky enough to have iphones, android phones or ipads which you can download (it costs £2.99) and enjoy more images and information.

The 10 best fictional women dressed as men

Check out this link to the article from the Guardian:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/oct/28/ten-best-women-dressed-men
What do you think? Are there any other good examples of cross-dressing women in literature?

National Short Story Week

This week is National Short Story Week - a week celebrating the varied and exciting medium of the short story. You can get involved by reading short stories - there are loads available from the library - or writing them. Click on the image above to go to the official website.

If you are in Years 7 & 8 you can enter the National Short Story Week competition. Write a 1000 word story (roughly 2 sides in size 12 font) entitled "The Choice" and you could be in with a chance to have your story recorded by an actor, plus other exciting prizes. Speak to the librarians for more information.



National Novel Writing Month

Fancy a challenge?
The Novel Writing Month is November and the aim is to begin writing on November 1, and to write a 50,000 word, (approximately 175 page) novel by 11:59:59, November 30.
Quick!  You're 4 days behind!
Why not try - at the very least you'll have done some writing...
http://www.nanowrimo.org/whatisnano

We'd love to hear who is going for it - add a comment to let us know.

The Librarian

J K Rowling Confesses She Nearly Killed Ron

http://www.guardian.co.uk/childrens-books-site/2011/oct/31/jk-rowling-ron-weasley