LAST week saw the arrival to Hillvue Public School of boxes and boxes of beautiful books.
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All are recent publications and all destined for the school library.
They include hard backs, soft covers, novels, picture books, mystery books and teaching books.
This delivery was very gratefully received and was made possible by a grant of $3,200 from Dymocks Bookshops, a very large and well-known national company.
The library monitors could barely wait to open the boxes and start browsing amongst the colourful, large and small size books with inviting titles.
To the students and adults, it was like opening Christmas presents, and hands reached into boxes very quickly as they were unsealed and the aroma of new books filtered out.
The library monitors, with small piles of the new books next to them, made subtle hints to have certain books put on reserve once they had been processed and ready for borrowing.
The books came at a good time, the start of the Premier's Reading Challenge which goes through to August and involves school students state-wide.
The Premier's Reading Challenge is graded into four levels; kindergarten to year 2, years 3 and 4, years 5 and 6 and finally years 7 to 9.
Each level has a range of difficulty and interests from fiction to non-fiction, from older classics to books very recently published.
As all of the students at Hillvue are enrolled in the Premier's Reading Challenge, teachers were invited to help choose from the massive list Dymocks had sent to our school, and hard decisions had to be made as to which titles were to be included.
Mrs Jan Bartlett, the teacher librarian at the school really had to restrain herself from exceeding the grant's limits when it came to ordering.
"Like a kid in a lolly shop" was muttered a few times.
Before the students can borrow these beautiful new books, each book will be entered into the Oliver computer system, stamped and covered then sorted into one of the Premier's Reading Challenge levels.
If the reaction from the library monitors is anything to go by, then the rest of the students at Hillvue will be extremely excited to read these new additions to our library.
Hillvue School would like to say a big thank you to Dymocks for their generous donation.
