Adda Clark Library

03/04/2024

The Book 📖 Focus For Today Wednesday April 3, 2024. 👇
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Book Title: MAKE A WISH, MOLLY
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Author: Barbara Cohen
Illustrated by: Jan Naimo Jones
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Molly and her mother don't know about birthdays. In Russia they didn't celebrate birthdays the way they do in the United States.
So when her new friend from school sends her a birthday party invitation, Molly can hardly wait. But the party is during the week of Passover. Molly can't believe her bad luck. She knows she shouldn't eat any of the pretty pink cake.
Molly has a mind to taste it anyway. The frosting looks so good and her mother would never know. But something happens at Emma's party that makes Molly learn a lot about herself, and helps her appreciate her mother and their own special traditions in a whole new way.
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BARBARA COHEN wrote a number of books about Jewish children, including THE CARP IN THE BATHTUB, which critics have described as a modern classic. Her other books about Jewish children include THE CHRISTMAS REVOLUTION, THE ORPHAN GAME, and MOLLY'S PILGRIM, all available in Bantam Skylark editions. She received the National Jewish Book 📖 Award for children's fiction in 1983 and was awarded the Sydney Taylor Body-of-Work Award presented by the Association of Jewish Librarians. Molly's Pilgrim was made into a film and received an Academy Award in 1986.
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JAN NAIMO JONES has illustrated LADY DAISY by Dick King-Smith, among other books for young readers. She currently lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan, with her husband and their six children.
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24/03/2024

ON BOOK REVIEW TODAY SUNDAY MARCH 24, 2024;
BOOK TITLE: THE TRUMPET OF THE 🦢 SWAN
AUTHOR: E. B. WHITE
PICTURES BY: EDWARD FRASCINO
Louis is scared when his father tells him that he's different from other 🦢 swans. He doesn't want to be different. Even though he can't talk, Louis knows he could learn to read and write, if only he could get into school.
Sam Beaver, a boy who understands all wild things, agrees to help. But Mrs. Hammerbotham isn't sure she can handle a Trumpeter Swan in her classroom.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
E. B. WHITE was born in Mount Vernon, New York, in 1899 and was graduated from Cornell University in 1921. After five or six years of trying many sorts of jobs, he joined the staff of The New Yorker magazine. The connection proved a happy one and resulted in a steady output of satirical sketches, poems, essays, and editorials. His essays also appeared in Harper's Magazine.
Mr. White is the author of thirteen books of prose and poetry. His two previous children's books, STUART LITTLE, and CHARLOTTE'S WEB, are modern classics, for which he has been given the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award.

ABOUT THE ARTIST
EDWARD FRASCINO was born in New York City, where he still lives. Well known for his drawings that frequently appear in The New Yorker, The New Yorker Times, and Saturday Review, Mr. Frascino has illustrated several other children's books and is also a painter.
Text Copyright © 1970 by E. B. White
This edition published by Scholastic Inc., 730 Broadway, New York, NY 10003, by arrangement with Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc.

24/03/2024

23/03/2024

ON BOOK REVIEW TODAY SATURDAY MARCH 23RD 2024
BOOK TITLE: THE HIDING PLACE
THE TRIUMPHANT TRUE STORY OF CORRIE TEN BOOM
AUTHOR: CORRIE TEN BOOM
WITH: JOHN AND ELIZABETH SHERRILL
Over 2 million copies sold
The extraordinary adventure of one courageous Christian woman who became a militant heroine of the anti-N**i underground.
Corrie Ten Boom stood with her older sister Betsie, watching a concentration camp matron beating a prisoner. “Oh, the poor woman,” Corrie cried. “Yes, May God forgive her,” Betsie replied. And, once again, Corrie realized that it was for the souls of the brutal N**i guards that her sister prayed.
Both women had been sent to the camp for helping the Jews. Christ’s spirit and words were their guide; it was His persecuted people they tried to save – at the risk of their own lives; it was His strength that sustained them through times of profound horror.
Here is a book aglow with the glory of God and the courage of a quite Christian spinster whose life was transformed by it. A story of Christ’s message and the courageous woman who listened and lived to pass it along – with joy and triumph!
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
In the years since the closing chapter of this book, Corrie Ten Boom has traveled ceaselessly, carrying her message of triumphant living all over the world, especially behind the Iron Curtain. The author of devotional books treasured by millions, she is also a colorful, amusing speaker with a hold on young audiences that is but one of her many intriguing personal mysteries. This is the full story behind the faith that has touched and stirred and changed so many lives, everywhere.
The writers with whom Corrie has shared the intimate recollections of THE HIDING PLACE are the American authors, JOHN and ELIZABETH SHERRILL. Both are Guide-posts magazine editors; their previous books include The Cross and the Switchblade, They Speak With Other Tongues and God’s Smuggler. The Sherrills live in a suburb of New York and have three children, Scott, Donn, and Elizabeth.

22/03/2024

22/03/2024

On book review this Friday
Book Title: OOKA THE WISE - TALES OF OLD JAPAN
Author: I. G. EDMONDS
Illustrated by: Sanae Yamazaki

His Honorable, OOKA Tadasuke, was a famous judge in old Japan whose unusual methods for administering justice made him a legend still talked about today. After all, whoever heard of arresting a statue, or declaring someone guilty of stealing a smell. Once, the fair-minded OOKA even sentenced himself to death to see that justice was done!
In these seventeen classic tales, OOKA uses wit, wisdom, and ingenuity to solve cases that seem impossible while upholding his principle of justice: "Punish wickedness and reward virtue!" Readers will appreciate his efforts to promote the spirit rather than the letter of the law while they exercise their own problem-solving skills by matching wits with the formidable judge.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
I. G. Edmonds first heard about OOKA while stationed in Japan in the U.S. Air Force. He compiled this first English language collection of OOKA tales to delight western readers with the imaginative, clever Japanese folk figure. ✅

09/03/2024

Adda Clark Library has over four thousand books in its shelves. We are found at plot no. 15/28 in Ng'ombe Compound of Lusaka City. Any time you are in the area, please find time to visit us and we will really appreciate. Just ask for Good Shepherd Zambia Community School, just there you will find us. For details you can call or WhatsApp us on 0975921975

14/12/2023

Dear adults, please find to read to children.

One of the most powerful things you can do for your child is to read with them. Learn more about the benefits, along with tips for reading to babies, toddlers, and beyond.