SRC 2006: Librarians' Website

The BCLA is pleased to announce the theme for the 2006 Summer Reading Club:

Extreme Reading!

This year's illustrator is Kirsti Wakelin whose books include:

Picture Books:
Pig In the Middle by Sally Fitz-Gibbon
Published by Fitzhenry and Whiteside, Toronto 2004
When They Are Up by Maggee Spicer and Richard Thompson
Published by Fitzhenry and Whiteside, Toronto 2003
A Pod of Orcas, A Seaside Counting Book by Sheryl McFarlane
Published by Fitzhenry and Whiteside, Toronto 2002

Early Readers books for the classroom:
A Wild Eagle Needs A Beak by Vi Hughes
Scholastic Canada Ltd (Literary Place for the Early Years), 2006

Kirsti is a freelance artist, illustrator, writer and graphic designer living in Vancouver.

Front cover of the reading record with insert sleeve and stickers
(Click on the image to view enlarged version)

Materials will include reading record; stickers; poster; bookmarks; completion medals; children's website with literacy game; as well as novelty items and a librarian's programme manual. Use the links at the left to see a preview of the reading record design & artwork. More information will be added to this site as it becomes available...

Sponsored by the British Columbia Library Association and your local public library with the assistance of the Public Library Services Branch, Ministry of Education, Shirley Bond, Minister. KidsSRC.ca · Illustration by Kirsti Anne Wakelin © 2006 · Design by Roger Handling

Questions or comments? Feel free to email Jacqueline van Dyk, SRC Coordinator