The Booker Prize Long List for 2020

The Long List for this Year’s Booker Prize was announced recently. 

The Booker Prize is widely regarded as the premier Literary Prize for novels written in English. This year’s Long List is as follows:

• The New Wilderness by Diane Cook (Oneworld Publications)
• This Mournable Body by Tsitsi Dangarembga (Faber & Faber)
• Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi (Hamish Hamilton, Penguin Random House)
• Who They Was by Gabriel Krauze (4^th Estate, HarperCollins)
• The Mirror & The Light by Hilary Mantel (4^th Estate, HarperCollins)
• Apeirogon by Colum McCann (Bloomsbury Publishing)
• The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste (Canongate Books)
• Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid (Bloomsbury Circus, Bloomsbury Publishing)
• Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart (Picador, Pan Macmillan)
• Real Life by Brandon Taylor (Originals, Daunt Books Publishing)
• Redhead by The Side of The Road by Anne Tyler (Chatto & Windus, Vintage)
• Love and Other Thought Experiments by Sophie Ward (Corsair, Little, Brown)
• How Much of These Hills is Gold by C Pam Zhang (Virago, Little, Brown)

The Short List for the Prize will be announced on the 15th of September and the £50 000 prize for best novel will be revealed in November.

Check out these links for previous Booker Prize Info:

Last Year’s Winner and Short List

Previous Year’s Booker Prize Info

The International Booker Prize

 

Website of the Week: Action for Happiness : Joyful June.

The world is in crisis. Keep Calm, Stay Wise & Be Kind.

This Joyful June Calendar has daily actions for June 2020 to help us look for what’s good even in difficult times. Download as an image for sharing or a PDF for printing. Please pass on to others * Add your details below to receive future calendars *

To join Action for Happiness and pledge to create a happier world click on the button below:

Action for Happiness is a movement of people committed to building a happier and more caring society. We want to see a fundamentally different way of life – where people care less about what they can get just for themselves and more about the happiness of others.

For more excellent Happiness-Inducing ideas and resources click here.

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The Universe in Verse : the science and splendour of nature through poetry…

In these interesting times why not check out  The Universe in Verse — a charitable celebration of the science and splendour of nature through poetry. Brought to you and curated by the inimitable Maria Popova author of the amazing brainpickings blog.

Due to the current COVID-19 pandemic, this year’s Universe in Verse show will be staged virtually on April 25. Highlights will be released in the coming months.

You can however, watch the complete Universe in Verse show from 2019 below on Vimeo.

 

Happy World Book Day 2020!

Today, March 5 is  World Book Day   and once again our students and staff have put in a great effort to celebrate books and reading. This morning, Junior School students in Years 3-8 came dressed as a favourite book character for a special World Book Day Reflection from the school librarian Mr Bull.

 

Then it was onto the World Book Day Bumper Book Quiz where students used their considerable book brains to answer dozens of questions winning housepoints for each correct one. For those who like to know the score Monte Rosa scored 7 correct to Matterhorn’s impressive 19! Only a handful of questions went unanswered.

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The Year 7s and 8s were thrilled to get a second quiz today when they joined the Senior School students in our annual World Book Day 2020 Senior Literary Quiz in the Senior Library. It was run as a Kahoot Quiz for the first time and created a lot of excitement around books and reading.

Maleeto was the overall winner, followed closely by a super enthusiastic Miss Kettleborough with Hanna in a very close 3rd place.

Check out this slideshow of some of the Best World Book Day Costumes and other events from today.

 

World Book Day is a registered charity on a mission to give every child and young person a book of their own. It’s also a celebration of authors, illustrators, books and (most importantly) it’s a celebration of reading. In fact, it’s the biggest celebration of its kind, designated by UNESCO as a worldwide celebration of books and reading, and marked in over 100 countries all over the world.

WBD Inspiration

http://www.bookaid.org/support-us/world-book-day/

 

 

World Book Day 2020 Thursday 5 March

March 5 is  World Book Day   and once again our students and staff are invited to get into the spirit, celebrating books and reading. Bilingual Infant School and Junior School students have the chance to dress up as their favourite book character, while Senior School students can join our annual World Book Day Literary Quiz in the Restaurant from 1:00pm. Great prizes to be won!

via World Book Day 2020

World Book Day is a registered charity on a mission to give every child and young person a book of their own. It’s also a celebration of authors, illustrators, books and (most importantly) it’s a celebration of reading. In fact, it’s the biggest celebration of its kind, designated by UNESCO as a worldwide celebration of books and reading, and marked in over 100 countries all over the world.

WBD Inspiration

http://www.bookaid.org/support-us/world-book-day/

Check out this slideshow of some of the Best World Book Day Costumes from previous years.

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Can reading increase empathy and charitable thinking?

Click here or the image above to read the whole Big Think article. To view the list of books click below:

 

Why Use Subscription Databases?

That’s a very good question and I’m glad you asked. So, take a few minutes to click on the image below to view a short presentation using Piktochart from award-winning school librarian Joyce Valenza. Thanks Joyce!

New Titles Added So Far this Academic Year

As the Winter Term progresses please take a moment to browse all the new titles added to our Library Collection so far this academic year.  Click on the image below to browse new titles or click this link to download the whole list as a PDF.

New Titles This Academic Year

To search the entire Le Régent Library Catalogue click here.

 

 

Secretive New Joke Competition Revealed!

What was so funny about the tiny Cruise-Ship company?

It was only a one-liner….

See what I did there? So as promised in this morning’s Reflection, I am now accepting short ‘one-liner’ jokes (original or not) for our first ever Le Régent Joke Competition. A tasty prize for the best one-liner I have never heard before.

The 10 best jokes will be posted on this blog and voted on by you to decide the winner.

Entries from Staff and Students most welcome.

What did the fish say when he swam into a wall? Dam!!

Nikita in Year 11 was first off the mark with the following (not suitable for vegetarians, sorry…)

‘What do you call a cow with no legs?’

Ground beef.

You know you want to….

Please email your entries to me directly, or post as a comment at the bottom of this post.

For a more scientific approach to the mystery of the perfect joke, check out Professor Richard Wiseman’s latest blog post below:

 

Website of the Week: In2013Dollars.com

This week’s  Website of the Week is a very useful world currency inflation calculator called  In2013Dollars.com.

This online tool allows you to choose from a range of currencies including US, UK, Australia, Euro etc and view scalable data about the historical rates of inflation since records were first kept in that country. Click on the graph above to view the value of £100 from 1751 to today!

You can download chart images and discover the sources and methods of data collection for each country and currency listed.

This tool would be really useful for many school subjects including Maths, Economics and Business Management.

in2013dollars.com is a reference website maintained by the Official Data Foundation.

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About the author

Ian Webster is an engineer and data expert based in San Mateo, California. He has worked for Google, NASA, and consulted for governments around the world on data pipelines and data analysis. Disappointed by the lack of clear resources on the impacts of inflation on economic indicators, Ian believes this website serves as a valuable public tool. Ian earned his degree in Computer Science from Dartmouth College.

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