Hi everybody:
I wanted to use this post to remind you that Seabury, like lots of schools, has a Birthday Book program. We invite your child to buy a book for library to celebrate his or her birthday. This year (Hooray!) I'm working on Fridays, so I'd love it if the kids would present the books to the school during Friday gatherings. If the books are picture books, I always make sure to read them to the child's class as soon as we get them.
Birthday Books get a label inside with the child's name and the year they are given to the library. That gives a sense of permanence. I'm still opening books that Halley gave to the library when she was a student here.
My son Noah was home from college over the weekend and bought a copy of
The Son of Neptune by Rick Riordan because he wanted to read it. (He's still a big kid.) He stayed late on Saturday, finished it and handed it to me for the library in the morning. He turned 21 in September and since he was a Seabury kid, too, it can be his Birthday Book.
Lots of people ask me if we have a "wish list." The answer is yes. I put it on Amazon because that's so easy. There's a link to the right, or if you want to see the whole list at once, search for Seabury School Library in the wish list link. If use our Amazon link at right or tinyurl.com/amazonseab to purchase Birthday Books it will help the library twice.
You might notice an iPad on the wish list. That's partly because I'd eventually love to have a couple in the library for kids to read on. But mostly it's because Amazon is running a contest for a $2,500 gift card if you add things to your wish list from external sites. I could buy lots of stuff for the library with $2,500! You can enter the contest every week. So you might see a few interesting things on the wish list.
