The June Theme is - Reading Escapes

If you were stuck on a desert island and you could have one thing to read, what would it be? The latest football scores on your mobile or a magazine to check what the celebrities are wearing while you’re stuck in a castaway outfit? Or maybe your favourite book...

Find out more about your island by checking out the resources in your LRC. Or ask the LRC Staff for great reads on the theme.

If you’re just stuck in a monotonous day rather than on a desert island, you can escape into another world – by reading a great book or magazine. Or you can try leaving the planet altogether and with a Science Fiction book..

Make your escape with reading.

The May Theme is: Mind and Body

"Be careful about reading health books, you may die of a misprint' Mark Twain

Reading is not all in the mind – it is in the body too. The theme this month is all about celebrating the links between reading and health.

Since laughing is officially good for you, get stuck into something funny. Try a joke book or read something from our Funny Fiction or Funny Facts sections.

If you want to target your body a bit more directly, look at our Sports and Health sections. Whether you are now rolling around laughing or you are so relaxed that you are half asleep, you can ask your LRC Staff to get something to suit your mood exactly.

Read more live more. 

We have now got copies of all the shortlisted books available in the LRC. Please call in if you would like to borrow them:

The CILIP Carnegie Medal Shortlist 2008

KEVIN CROSSLEY-HOLLAND Gatty's Tale
LINZI GLASS Ruby Red
ELIZABETH LAIRD Crusade
TANYA LANDMAN Apache
PHILIP REEVE Here Lies Arthur
MEG ROSOFF What I Was
JENNY VALENTINE Finding Violet Park

The CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal Shortlist 2008

ANTHONY BROWNE Silly Billy
POLLY DUNBAR Penguin
EMILY GRAVETT Little Mouse's Big Book of Fears
EMILY GRAVETT Monkey and Me
JANE RAY (Text by Carol Ann Duffy) The Lost Happy Endings
CHRIS RIDDELL Ottoline and the Yellow Cat
ED VERE Banana!

April Theme is Read all about it

Reading is: newspapers, magazines, comics, graphic novels, short stories, braille, subtitles in films, text message, websites, online games, computer screens, blogs, signs, emails, audio books, podcasts, websites on your mobile, storytelling.

And you can do it anywhere: at home, at work, on the tube, on the bus, in the park, cafes, waiting for the doctor, in bed, at the station, in the bath, in the garden, in the supermarket, in an internet café.

NYR2008 Website

Carnegie Shadowing is nearly here! If you are a keen reader and would like to take part this year, please ask the LRC Staff for more details. Special event at the Ricoh Arena!

The LRC Staff are going to use this blog to bring you news and information about the LRC at Nicholas Chamberlaine Technology College. This will then feed into the LRC Online website and also our main page on the Portal.

Our main use of this will be for:

Events in the LRC - quizzes, competitions
Book Week information
Carnegie Shadowing
Book reviews