27th March International Scribble Day

 

International Scribble Day is about showing appreciation for and celebrating the act of scribbling. If like me, you like to scribble or doodle while taking notes, or you like turning scribbles into things like Mr Squiggle used to do on television, then this is a good day to  celebrate.

It was founded in 2019 by Diane Alber, the author of children's book I'm Not Just a Scribble. the theme of this book is that art can come in any Forman anyone can be encouraged to be an artist. Besides inspiring creativity, the book also includes ideas about kindness and acceptance.

Do some scribbling and then a black marker to give it eyes and a mouth, maybe even hands and legs.    

Bloch I think I'll do this as a lunchtime activity and then use the children's scribbles as part of a book display. What will I put out? These among others.

•  It's Not Scribble to Me  by Kate Ritchie

• Scribbles and Ink  by Ethan Long (there are two other books in this series)

• Line and Scribble  by Deborah Vogrig

• Ike's Incredible Ink by Brianne Farley

• Scribble by Ruth Chi

• The Line  by Paula Bossio

• Lines  by Suzy Lee

• A Squiggly Line  by Robert Vescio 

• Lines that Wiggle by Candace Whitman

• Gregory and the Magic Line by Dawn Piggot

• The Green Line  by Polly Farquharson

• The Big Adventure of a Little Line by Serge Bloch

• Inkblot by Margaret Peot

• Follow the Line...by Laura Ljungkvist (several titles)

14th March Save a Spider Day; World Spider Day

Whatever title you give this day it is about valuing spiders for their role in the environment.

"Spiders help reduce insect populations significantly along with species like birds or ants. Without them, the world's natural environment would be severely unbalanced."

Except for a few poisonous spiders out of the more than 40,000 species of spiders around the world, spiders are practically not dangerous to humans.

We need to learn more about spiders so we can admire them rather than trying to eradicate them.

There are a multitude of nonfiction books that can help with this. Here's some the library has:

Spiders by Laura Marsh

I'm Trying to Love Spiders by Bethany Barton

Spiders  by Valerie Bodden

Spiders  by Recca Gilpin

Up Close Spiders by Kathy Riley

But you do need to share some stories as well!

Diary of a Spider by Doreen Cronin and Harry Bliss

Aaaarrgghh! Spider!  by Lydia Monk

Frank the Seven-Legged Spider by Michaele Razi

Seaver the Weaver by Paul Czajak and the Brothers Hilts

Gizo-Gizo! by Emily Williamson

Any Anansi story...there are several, but this is an oldie and a goodie.

Anansi the Spider by Gerald McDermott

There are more books about spiders listed here. If you still need convincing that spiders are wonderful you need to read Charlotte's Web by E.B. White.

9th March False Teeth Day

While researching Tooth Fairy Day I learned there is actually a day for  false teeth. Do we still need this day? It is celebrated on the day that Charles Graham was issued with a patent for his invention of artificial teeth. It was designed initially to make us think about teeth care too. 

I wonder if children actually have knowledge of false teeth today. Their grandparents probably have implants or a small plate, not dentures. I thought immediately of the book Grandad's Teeth by Rod Clements which used to make children really laugh. If you are going to read it aloud, you need to practise first because Grandad's speech without his teeth is hard to say. 

I was surprised to find that we had other false teeth books in the library. There are false teeth in 

• Crabtree by Jon and Tucker Nichols

This tall book is about Alfred Crabtree who has lost his false teeth. He knows he will find them if he tidies up his clutter. He sets out to organise his life.  

and in 

• Dave and the Tooth Fairy by Verna Wilkins and Carl Pearce.

Despite being about the tooth fairy, this book also talks about grandad's false teeth.

Your library might also have these:

8th March Holi Festival International Women's Day.

This year 2023, Holi, the festival of colours, is today, the  8th March 2023. It looks like so much fun being covered in coloured powder. Holi is a Hindu festival that celebrates spring, love, and new life and although religious is about having fun.

Vibrant colours bring joy and positivity to our lives so we thought we'd add some colour to the library. We put out any book that had the word 'colour' or a colour in the title. The library was saturated in colour on one side and on the other side we were celebrating amazing women for International Women's Day. 

4th March World Engineering Day

World Engineering Day for Sustainable Development was proclaimed by UNESCO at its 40th General Conference in 2019. It is has been celebrated worldwide on 4th March of each year since 2020 as a UNESCO international day of celebration of engineers and engineering.

I have a six year old boy who visits the library quite often to see if i have bought anymore books about engineering. He announced very early on that he was going to be an engineer! neither of his parents are engineers, but he is sure that's what he wants to do. Initially it was easy to provide him with books. I gave him these:

 

But where do I go now?

After searching through the catalogue and reading blurbs I will try:

I noticed how many of the books I was choosing had girls as main characters and thought how appropriate for this week as we will be celebrating International Women's Day. I have already done a display of biographies where I included books such as these:

Emily Roebling

Margaret E. Knight

Frances Gabe

 Zaha Hadid

(There are other biographies about Zaha as well)

Beatrice Shilling

Raye Montague

If you miss today, you can always celebrate International Women in Engineering Day on 23rd June.