Delightful December!

 Why is December so delightful? Well, for the library it's because of so much planning in the works for the new year!

What's coming soon, you might ask? (Or even if you didn't ask, you're about to find out!)

1. Tea and Topics for our parents regarding reading for pleasure and online resources from the library.

2. Another Late Night at the Library! And, yes, this will be another mystery but in a different format and with new suspects...be on the lookout for The Case of the Mysterious Messages!

3. Author visits! We have one for senior school in February planned, and the scheduling of the classes and times is underway. We have a Thai author (and the book character!) being planned for our youngest classes through their Thai class times, and then fingers crossed on another author able to come visit us from the US.

4. On top of this, we are hosting Kids' Lit Quiz Thailand this year, with 34 teams already signed up, and more possible in the next few weeks. This is a really big event since the winner goes on to Canberra Australia for the world finals!

(and no, that's not all, although all of that is happening within the first two months of the new term...)

5. We also have Fully Booked Week which is incorporating world languages into the celebration! Lots of planning beginning for this fabulous event.

Could there be more? Of course there can, but those all happen a little farther into the new year so we don't have the planning underway just yet. We are definitely looking forward to more poetry competitions as the Shrewsbury Asia Poetry Competition goes into its third year.

The Case of the Missing Minecraft Books

 Ahhh, Minecraft. That game for which we have dedicated an entire nonfiction shelf in the junior library, and about 30 e-book titles as well. 

To our surprise, one morning, all of the books were gone from the shelf! (At least 20 books showed available, but were gone!) On the shelf were: a watch, a candy wrapper, 2 different leafs, a bit of a feather, and some brown fur. Also on the shelf were a package of puzzles with a taunting message about solving them to find the thief, and a note telling everyone that we would never find the culprit!

OH, MY!

Needless to say, this case needed some alert sleuths to track down the culprit. The library staff rounded up all of the possible suspects (the 7 puppets who did not go to the "puppet spa," a.k.a. cleaners) and interrogated them. Then, with the help of 70 students who stayed for a Late Night at the Library, we solved the puzzles and found the thief!

Note to everyone: don't ignore your friends to play a video game. Always make time for your friends so they do not steal the library books in hopes of stopping your game play. 

This was a fun evening for junior school students. And it seems a new mystery is afoot.