2011 Theodor Seuss Geisel Award announced!

After one year, three trips, and about a million books, Mrs. Fournier and her fellow committee members were proud to announce their winner for the 2011 Theodor Seuss Geisel Award! As follows are our winner and our two runner ups. The 2011 Geisel Award goes to Bink and Gollie! Our honor books were Ling and Ting and We Are in a Book! Check out the fancy press release Mrs. Fournier helped to write here! (She and Linda wrote the one for Bink and Gollie!)
Multiple copies are available of each for checkout at the Forest North Library!

You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch!

We were lucky enough to have Mr. Rhea, our former Speech Teacher, come back to Forest North for his annual performance of "The Grinch Who Stole Christmas" by Dr. Seuss. It might help that his granddaughter is an Eagle, but I bet he'd do it anyway! Most programs like this cost hundreds of dollars, but this one comes absolutely free. We are so lucky here at Forest North for this annual opportunity. Fingers crossed for an encore performance next year, Eagles!

Mrs. Rosenbaum, Mrs. Perkins and Mrs. Fournier were on the news! Check out their local KXAN story from today about raising money for Forest North students via donorschoose.org grants! Copy and paste the following link to watch the story yourself:

http://www.kxan.com/dpp/news/education/Teachers-seek-online-donations?ref=scroller&categoryId=10001&status=true

Riley the Reading Dog was a smashing success. We all had a great time sharing books with Riley and petting him. He had a great temperament and loved the attention. His owner Naomi said she'd be happy to bring him back one day. Big thanks to the Austin Pet Alliance for sharing their time and resources with us. We love Riley!

Pictured: Levi, Travonna, Bailey and Valerie pet Riley the Reading Dog!

12/7: Riley the Reading Dog!

Come see Riley the Reading Dog here at the Forest North Library on Tuesday, 12/7!

Bluebonnet Voting Party 1/21

Dan Yaccarino

Mrs. Fournier was kindly invited by some of her fellow librarians last night as they took to dinner the esteemed author and illustrator and Bluebonnet Book Award Nominee Dan Yaccarino of The Fantastic Undersea Life of Jacques Cousteau! It was so interesting to hear him talk all about the hard work it's taken him to become an author and illustrator, and to ask him about his cool graphic, retro illustrative style we all love. He also told Mrs. Fournier what he's working on now and what he has plans to do in the future. Mrs. Fournier was so excited to meet him, she asked if he'd pose for a photo so she could show all of her dedicated Bluebonnet nominee readers! He was happy to do so for all of his awesome fans at Forest North! Keep reading, Eagles.