The Biblio File December 6, 2021 Is the winter weather officially here? For those of you that see a temperature below -10 and think it’s time to stay in and read by the fire – here are a few more from our Patron’s Choice Awards: The Iron Rose, the Extraordinary Life of Charlotte Ross, MD…
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The Biblio File: Library News
The Biblio File November 22, 2021 Calling all eBook readers! We are hoping to start our own collection of eBooks at the PPL and would appreciate some input. Please email the library at email@pinawapubliclibrary.com with suggestions for titles, genres, any recommendations and thoughts about what you’d like to see in our collection. Looking for a…
The Biblio File: Library News
The Biblio File November 15, 2021 Library patron George Gibson has kindly provided a book review – thank you George! I have just finished reading J. S. Milloy’s A National Crime, 1999. Pinawa Public Library 371.829 MIL. Milloy (Oxford scholar, Professor of History and Native Studies at Trent University) was tasked in 1996 with researching and creating…
Jr. Biblio-file – November 2021
I think it is time we talked about non-fiction books. “They are boring, they are heavy, they have no pictures”. But that isn’t true, is it? Especially when we are talking about non-fiction for kids, and there is a lot of non-fiction for kids! These books are big and bright and colorful, they have lots…
The Biblio File: Library News
The Biblio File November 1, 2021 Well look at that – November 1st and it’s winter. Seems like a good day to highlight a few more of our PPL Patron’s Choice book awards, in case you were looking for a reason to stay home and read. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr…
The Biblio File: Library News
The Biblio File October 25, 2021 Take a minute to check out our new online reader advisory magazine – another awesome service offered to the patrons of the PPL. BookBrowse has been providing this curated resource for fiction and non-fiction for more than 2 decades. You can customize your searches by author or title “read-a-likes”,…
October 2021 Jr. BiblioFile
After a busy week we all like to snuggle down with popcorn and watch a good movie, and what makes a better movie than one that was based on a book! It is a common difficulty to get kids of a certain age to like reading. But I have found that having a movie that…
Honouring Indigenous History at the Library
Honouring Indigenous History at the Library September 30th is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in Canada. As part of reconciliation, it is important to learn about the history of Indigenous people in Canada and in Pinawa. Pinawa sits on the western edge of Treaty 3, the homeland of the Anishinabewaki (Anishinabek/Anishinaabe/Ojibwe)…
Jr Biblio File – September
I would like to introduce you to perhaps the coolest author literature has… September is world kid lit month! September 8th is International literacy day, September 13th is Roald Dahl day, and the 30th is International translation day! So to celebrate kid’s literature, from around the world, which has been translated into over 50 languages,…
Jr Biblio File – August
Curated Collections for your Convenience Tucked away in the teen and magazines area, behind our comfy reading couch is a book shelf full of hanging bags. Each of these bags contain carefully curated selections of books on various topics of interest to small humans and their keepers. Some are fun and entertaining, some…