Reigate Chatterbooks group 2 have just read Bah Humbug by Michael Rosen illustrated by Tony Ross we also made Christmas trees out of old buttons

WOKING LIBRARY CHATTERBOOKS NOVEMBER 2018

We read 'Wild Robot Escapes' by Peter Brown.
 Roz is a very unusual robot who has been bought second hand to work on the farm, but she remembers a time when she lived on an island with her adopted son, a gosling called Brightbill, and needs to find him and get back there.

We also designed our own robots for various purposes.

We welcomed new member Mustafa to Chatterbooks!

Reigate Chatterbooks are getting into the festive spirit we have just read Father Christmas's Fake Beard by Terry Pratchett. We then made Christmas tree decorations out of buttons to take home to hang on our Christmas trees.

During November Chatterbooks at Haslemere Library have read 'Sky Chasers' by Emma Carroll and 'Polar Beasrs' by Valerie Bodden.

Mister P.,created by the children from Chatterbooks at Haslemere Library is featured in our latest Library Picks display.

Woking Chatterbooks October 2018

 

 

Woking Chatterbooks

For our October meeting we discussed the latest  book we have been reading 'Boyband of the Apocolypse by Tom Nicoll.

We enjoyed this funny, spooky book about Sam who unwillingly accompanies his sister to a concert of  the boy band 'Apocolips' and witnesses the group disintegrate their lead singer and discovers their plot to take over and ultimately destroy the world! Sam has to infiltrate the band to foil the plot.

This book scored highly with the group.

We then designed album covers and said what special talents we would bring to our own bands.

Both groups from Reigate Chatterbooks have just read Five Children and It by E. Nesbit. We then had a go at drawing a Psammead. We also discussed what we would wish for......which included banishing a younger brother and missing school assemblies !

This month Chatterbooks at Haslemere Library have read a selection of books by Rick Riordan. We also  all read  'The Gunpowder plot: a time for treason by Ann Turnbull - an enjoyable re-telling of the discovery and, non-fiction book 'Guy Fawkes' by Stephen White-Thomson.

13th September. Returning from our break we had read two books over the summer, ‘Confessions of an imaginary friend’ by Michelle Cuevas and ‘Skychasers’ by Emma Carroll. Some of the group read both books and some just one. 

‘Confessions of an imaginary friend’ by Michelle Cuevas is about a boy called Jacques Papier who discovers he is not Fleur’s brother as he had believed, but her imaginary friend! An unusual book, with great dialogue and surreal humour. This book made us laugh but the ending was tinged with melancholy. Spoiler alert-adults don’t tend to have imaginary friends! 

‘Skychasers’ by Emma Carroll is an adventure story with a twist. Magpie is a pickpocket who ends up working for the Montgolfier brothers and helps them develop the first manned flight. 

 

  

We filled in sheets for the Egham teenage Chatterbooks group

 about the kind of things we like to do. 

Continuing with our "Health and Wellbeing" theme we have made a Gratitude Tree - one of the activities in "50 Ways to Feel Happy" by Vanessa King.

Reigate Chatterbooks are back for the new school year .......it would appear they are quiet and concentrating ......I'm sure it won't last long !!

Display of "What makes me feel good" sheets produced by children from Chatterbooks at Haslemere and Camberley Libraries.

Weybridge Library Chatterbooks are back!

We had our second meeting of our new Chatterbooks Group at Weybridge Library in July. We had a fantastic discussion about 'To the edge of the World' by Julia Green which we all enjoyed. It is a fantastic adventure and helped us all think about being more confident when something is worrying us. 

We started reading the 2018 Surrey Children's Book Awards winner 'Me and Mr P' by Maria Farrer during the meeting and we all enjoyed taking turns reading a page each. We took a break in August for the summer holidays and met again last Friday. We had a very lively discussion about 'Me and Mr P' concluding that if we couldn't have our own 'Mr P' to help us when we needed it then a giant polar bear beanbag would be the next best thing!

We had lots of fun filling in our 'What makes me feel good' sheets which we will be sending to Shepperton Chatterbooks Group as part of a project to get to know other Chatterbooks groups for National Libraries Week in October. 

At the end of the meeting we started 'The Girl with the Lost Smile' by Miranda Hart. We have two signed copies of the book at Weybridge Library. If you'd like to enter the draw to win a copy please drop into Weyridge Library before 19 October and complete the four challenges. All completed entires will be entered into the draw and you will receive a Girl with the Lost Smile button badge for entering.

There are a few spaces on the group so if you are aged between 8 and 11 and would like to join us please sign up at Weybridge Library or email margot.walshe@surreycc.gov.uk
Our next meeting is on Friday 19 October from 3.45 - 4.45 pm.

During September and October Chatterbooks at Haslemere Library are reading books with a "Health and Well-being Theme". 

We are also writing about our favourite books on "What makes me feel good" sheets that will form part of a display during National Libraries Week.

Woking Library Chatterbooks  19th July 2018

This was the last session before our summer break and Kasper brought in sweets for the group. 

We had read 'Urban Outlaws' by Peter Jay Black which is a story about a group of teenagers who outsmart crime gangs by hacking their computer systems, using free-running skills and tech-gadgets to break into their headquarters and distribute their ill-gotten gains. Most of the group loved the book which ended on a cliff-hanger and Zak and Toby went on to read others in the series. 

Clelia, however wasn't so keen as she felt the story lacked the human element. 

We started by making a list of our Hacker names, special skills, likes and fears, and went on to follow a trail of clues around the library, to unlock to 'top secret' box of sweets that master criminals Clare and Anna had hidden in their secret hide-away. First the gang had to find the hidden map, and then an over-lay which pin-pointed the places in the library where mystical symbols were concealed. After searching the library, they then had to find what numbers the symbols represented on a decoding sheet. Once they had four numbers they again searched the room and found a key safe and put the code into it to get the key to the padlock. 

This was when disaster struck! Somehow the code one of the master criminals (Anna) had devised didn't open the key safe and the key could not be released!  Never mind, in their desperation to get their hands on the horde of sweets, the Chatterbooks gang found that part of the crate could be prised open and the sweets could be shaken out of the crack! Sweets all round. So our last Chatterbooks session before the break had a happy conclusion after all. 

The books we will be reading over the Summer break will be: 

Sky Chasers by Emma Carroll 

 and 

Confessions of an Imaginary Friend by Michelle Cuevas 

Our next meeting will be 13th September 2018 

This month Chatterbooks at Haslemere Library read 'The Girl with the Lost Smile' by Miranda Hart and 'Swallows and Amazons' by Arthur Ransome. We also coloured in bunting for the Summer Reading Challenge.

New Chatterbooks group at Weybridge Library

We had the first meeting of a new Chatterbooks Group at Weybridge Library this month. Seven children joined the new group and together we started reading 'To the edge of the World' by Julia Green. We had a great meeting; everyone was enthusiastic about meeting each other, talking about books and sharing reading our new book. Special thanks go to our lovely Chatterbooks volunteer, Sharon who helped make our first meeting such a success.

There are a few spaces on the group so if you are aged between 8 and 11 and would like to join us please sign up at Weybridge Library or email margot.walshe@surreycc.gov.uk

Our next meeting is on Friday 13 July from 3.45 - 4.45 pm.

Reigate Library Chatterbooks read and then voted for our favourite book

in the Surrey Libraries Children's Book Award 2018

Reigate Library Chatterbooks have just read Charlotte's Web by E.B.White, we then made our own spiders and webs.

Reigate Library Chatterbooks have just read Erica's Elephant by local author and friend of the library Sylvia Bishop. We then made elephants from milk cartons. We are now on a break for the summer, more Chatterboks fun in September.

Last month Haslemere Chatterbooks read 'Running Wild' by Michael Morpurgo and a selection of non-fiction books about our rainforests and other environmental concerns. This was followed up with a visit from author/illustrator Hannah Rollings who encouraged us to consider our role within the Carbon Cycle.