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Yesterday 8 students from Grades 6 and 8 visited the huge government book warehouse (BPIEC) to select books for the Red Scroll. These students were representatives from the winning Reading Rocks Homerooms, a competition held each year to promote reading in the MS.
The warehouse is a new building, with five floors of literary materials in different formats (books, dvd's, vcd's, CD's). At present most of the materials are in Chinese, but on the bottom floor there is a very large selection of English books, from a number of publishers. It is this section which we visited, and from whence we chose. The company gave us ice cream to assist us with this tough job on a hot day, and everyone had a great deal of fun. We learned a lot as we discussed the presentation of various books (cover quality, size of print, type of paper, age appropriateness), and debated the diversity and relevance of the choices we made.
Students were each able to select books to a total value of 250 RMB. In all, just over 2000 RMB worth of quality literature will be delivered to the Red Scroll, processed, added to our catalogue, and will be available for students to borrow soon! Already we have had several requests for 'the new books'!
The new titles, and photos of us at the warehouse, may be viewed on the MS Library Public Forums - called 'Trip to the Book Shop'!
Angela Cleeton, MS Teacher Librarian