Halloween Recommended Readings

Some books worth reading by Halloween...

Beautiful full colour books for kids:

When a witch loses her hat and wand while riding her broomstick, three helpful animals find the missing items. All they want in return is a ride on the broom. Is there Room on the Broom? 

The Best Halloween Hunt Ever - A bestselling search-and-find book filled with fun Halloween-themed puzzles.

Little monsters and goofy goblins prepare for Halloween in a silly, spooky spin on Clement C. Moore's "Night Before Christmas." A bewitching adventure for children. Colour illustrations throughout in The Night Before Halloween.

It was Halloween, the spookiest day of the year, and my nephew Benjamin had dragged me to a graveyard to do research for my book. There I met Creepella von Cacklefur, a very spooky mouse who - tried to lock me up in her coffin! Oh, how would a fraidy mouse like me ever survive? Another 1st person narrative in It's Halloween, you Fraidy Mouse!

For older readers:

Halloween Trivia - Halloween is one of the most celebrated times of the year among North Americans. Find out in this fun-filled, fascinating collection of little-known facts about all of the odd customs of Halloween and where they originated.

Who doesn't know Agatha Christie, the Queen of Suspense?

A teenage murder witness is drowned in a tub of apples...At a Hallowe'en party, Joyce - a hostile thirteen-year-old - boasts that she once witnessed a murder. When no-one believes her, she storms off home. But within hours her body is found, still in the house, drowned in an apple-bobbing tub. That night, Hercule Poirot is called in to find the 'evil presence'. But first he must establish whether he is looking for a murderer or a double-murderer...

Mel C. Thompson's collection of Halloween poems and paranormal stories in this Diary of a A Suburban Zombie. His unique perspective on zombies, mummies, vampire bats and world-conquering pumpkins. He takes us on a tour of hostile UFOs, the sex lives of immortals and the jobs of former monsters-turned-workers...

The Complete Poetry of Edar Allan Poe is also a compelling read! From Annabel Lee to The Raven, this edition of Poe's complete poetry illustrates the transcendent world of unity and ultimate beauty he created in his verse.

This is Halloween, READ!

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eBooks for Holidays

SOURCE: goodreads.com

It’s no secret I’m all for the printed word, for real books both for academic and recreational readings – they don’t need electricity, I can freely underline, mark… However, I have to admit that digital books also have advantages and, right now, besides the environmental issue, the economic reasons top my list (and maybe yours as well!). Having said that and taking into account that what really matters is that we / our kids / our students read and not how we / they do it, why not share some links so that we all read something during the summer break?

So, with no excuses, read free and legal ebooks anywhere, any time.

Try these links and choose for yourselves:

http://www.planetebook.com/ - the home of free classic literature

http://www.intechopen.com/books - over 1800 scientific books

http://www.openculture.com/free_textbooks - all the 150 books can be viewed for free and most can be downloaded for free as well. The titles in the collection are appropriate as supplemental books, more for mathematics and science than for the humanities.

http://books.google.com/advanced_book_search - google hosts thousands of books that are in the public domain; many of them can be viewed and downloaded in their entirety for free.

http://www.gutenberg.org/ - Project Gutenberg has over 40,000 free ebooks in English and there are also over 500 in Portuguese at http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/PT_Principal check Os Lusiadas at http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27236  

The next one is also a very good source for ebooks in English or in Portuguese

http://www.dominiopublico.gov.br/pesquisa/PesquisaObraForm.jsp and at  http://www.dominiopublico.gov.br/download/texto/pe000004.pdf  - you can check Mensagem de Fernando Pessoa

Strange enough is this link http://purl.pt/index/geral/aut/PT/index.html  but worth visiting, Biblioteca Nacional Digital, from where one can also download Mensagem, de Fernando Pessoa http://purl.pt/13966
Besides the titles already mentioned above that many of our sts will need to read for next schoolyear, check the next link where you can find 1900 free and legal ebooks - by Portuguese authors as well as, among others, some plays by W. Shakespeare but in Portuguese:
http://utilnet.blogspot.pt/2009/03/1990-livros-para-download-gratuito.html 

For those who for any reason don't / can't read, don't give up, because there are audiobooks! Please check AudioLiterate where you can select either from the featured audiobooks or by category. Just stream it; it's free!

Well? Any suggestions?

There are many more, but the ones above have just been checked thinking about the holidays as well as a kind of preparation for next school year :D

I’m sure we all want our students to read. According to them, in the age of digital devices, books are old fashioned, outdated and some may even fear being teased by their peers. Why not give or send them links for free (and legal) ebooks they can read on their smartphones / tablets / PCs?

Enjoy… Enjoy your holidays and your Readings!

Gotta Keep Reading

Every and each opportunity has to be seized to do what we cherish most - in my case, reading!
Older and younger students have been asked to enjoy their Easter break but also to READ:
"I got my book
Do you have yours?
What is the title?
And who's it by?
Where is it set?
...Feed your brains!"
Enjoy this inspirational video "Gotta Keep Reading" (lyrics of this adapted version of "I Gotta Feeling" also available here) 


                                                                                                               Happy Reading :=)