ORANGE You Interested In...

With the beginning of October comes the thoughts of PUMPKINS! 80% of the pumpkin supply in the U.S. is available in October. I went out to Furleigh Farms and picked out a few pumpkins for myself. I thought you might like to read a list of suggested book titles about pumpkins....

• Seed, Sprout, Pumpkin, Pie - Jill Esbaum


• Calabazas=Pumpkins - Jacqueline Farmer


• I Like Pumpkins!: Me Gustan Las Calabazas - Dianne Helton


• Pick a Perfect Pumpkin - Robin Michal Koontz


• Postcards from Buster: Buster and the Giant Pumpkin - Marc Brown


• Big Pumpkin - Erica Silverman, ill. by S.D. Schindler


• Pumpkin Soup - Helen Cooper


• The Pumpkin Fair - Eve Bunting


• Pumpkin Fever - Charnan Simon, ill. by Jan Bryan-Hunt


• The Pumpkin Patch - Margaret McNamara, ill. by Mike Gordon


• Oh, My, Pumpkin Pie! - Charles Ghigna, ill. by Ken Spengler


• How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin? - Margaret McNamara, ill. by G. Brian Karas


• Pumpkins: A Story for a Field - Mary Lyn Ray


• The Ugly Pumpkin - Dave Horowitz


• The Legend of Spookley, the Square Pumpkin - Joe Troiamo, ill. by Susan Banta


• Pumpkin Day - Nancy Elizabeth Wallace


• "Tiny", the Littlest Pumpkin - Joseph S. Smith


• Squashed - Joan Bauer (takes place in Iowa)

Of course there are many more!

All 3 media centers have received new curesty of the annual AEA 267 book give away. The HS also received one of their yearly book orders - over 100 new titles. By the end of this week those books should be ready for check out.

On Friday, October 7, Mrs. Abels from the MS and Mrs. Johnson from the HS will be attending a workshop for library aides in Clear Lake. While there, they will be introduced to the new Iowa AEA Online databases available to students and staff by hands-on demonstration. They will also connect with other library aides from around our area to discuss trends, problems, and usage of school library media centers. I will be attending with them.

This week I will be in Kanawha on Tuesday, October 3rd and at the elementary on Thursday, October 6th.

Orange you glad you can rfead?

Mrs. T. Reiter, K-12 Teacher Librarian