Welcome to Mrs. Petersen's Library Page!

The theme in our library this year is "Surf Your Library"
Look what's happening in our library in the months to come:

• We will have a bookmark contest in November. There will be grade level winners with one bookmark to be reproduced for the entire school. Winners' ideas will also be sent to library supply stores.
• This year's yearbook for the school will be illustrated by our students using the "Surf Your Library" theme.
• Children's Book Week is November 16-22, 1997.
• Students are using their Library Reading Records. Students will make a list of 25 books they have read. The List is due in May and those who complete it will receive an Arizona Reading Certificate.
• AYRA (Arizona Young Reader Award) nominees are listed below. Ten chapter books and ten picture books are being read by students. Winners will be selected in both catagories in March, 1998. Books Nominated for AYRA 1998 are:

  • MY NAME IS BRAIN BRIAN by Jeanne Betancourt
  • A REGULAR FLOOD of MISHAP by Tom Birdseye
  • THE BOOKSTORE MOUSE by Peggy Christian
  • TOUGH LOSER by Barthe DeClements
  • METROPOLITAN COW by Tim Egan
  • YOLANDA'S GENIUS by Carol Fenner
  • A DOLPHIN NAMED BOB by Twig C. George
  • HAWK HILL by Suzie Gilbert
  • RUNNING OUT OF TIME by Margaret Peterson Haddix
  • HARVEY POTTER'S BALLOON FARM by Jerdine Nolen Harold
  • OUTRAGEOUS, BODACIOUS BOLIVER BOGGS! by Jo Harper
  • TWO OF EVERYTHING: A CHINESE FOLKTALE by Lily Toy Hong
  • THE IGUANA BROTHERS:A TALE OF TWO LIZARDS by Tony Johnston
  • GRANDPA TOAD'S SECRETS by Keiko Kasza
  • ANANSI AND THE TALKING MELON by Eric A. Kimmel
  • GIRLS TO THE RESCUE: TALES OF CLEVER, COURAGEOUS GIRLS FROM AROUND THE WORLD by Bruce Lansky
  • LITTLE RED COWBOY HAT by Susan Lowell
  • BEETHOVEN LIVES UPSTAIRS by Barbara Nichol
  • MR. TUCKET by Gary Paulsen
  • CHATO'S KITCHEN by Gary Soto

This is last year's winning bookmark for the school:

Here are a few of my favorite sites for children.

1. Christmas Sites
2. Christmas Around the World
3. Arthur
4. Newton's Apple
5. Reading Rainbow
6. Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
7. Children's Stories, Poems, Pictures and sounds

   DONALDSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

   2040 W. Omar Drive

   Tucson, Arizona 85704 (520)292-4440