While the snake may symbolise evil and treachery in some traditions – the serpent represents the devil and temptation in the Christian Bible, for instance, but in Chinese culture it symbolises wisdom and agility.
Snakes will make a great first display of the year in the library! There are so many nonfiction and fiction titles in the library. Snakes are always popular with the students and most of the books with photographs will be the first to leave the library.
Long long ago, the world was a colorless, gray place. It had stayed that way for thousands of years. People never expected anything different until one day, the colorful Snake Goddess, Nuwa, fell from the sky. She was determined to bring color and beauty to the gray nothingness of the earth, but all the colors kept running out through a giant hole in the sky. To fix the hole and bring color to the world, Nuwa would have journey near and far to find the five magical colored stones that were her only hope for fixing the sky.
'Way back before once-upon-a-time there was the Dreamtime and the bush was in the middle of a drought. After a storm one large rainbow curved down. The Super Snake slithered down that rainbow on to the earth and promised the Elders he could help them find water.'
Some favourite picture story books:
And some chapter books:
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