October is Canadian Library Month! This year’s theme is “Libraries Connect”.
The NLLA distributed Canadian Library Month posters and bookmarks to schools and public libraries in the province and sponsored a province wide Haiku Poetry Contest. We received over 550 entries from students from kindergarten to grade 12 who composed haikus inspired by the theme” Libraries Connect”. A haiku is a form of traditional Japanese poetry that, when composed in English, typically consists of three lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables respectively.
Checkout the winning poems!
K-4 Winner: Haley Peddle, Grade 3 (Southwest Arm Academy)
Imagine the words
Let the letters come alive
Read a book and see
Most likely to be a librarian: Morgan Bennett, Grade 4 (C.C. Loughlin)
I respect my books
It is a new adventure
Please respect the books
Honourable Mention: Youngest participant Mollie Walsh, Grade 2 (Fatima Academy)
I can read a book
Good book, bad book, many books
You will learn a lot
5-8 Winner: Andrew Antle, Grade 7 (G.C. Rowe)
I lay on the shelf
As confident as a king,
Waiting to be read
9-12 Winner: Gregory Lacosta, Grade 9 (G.C. Rowe)
If books were heroes
Bad grammar should keep away
Books are here to stay
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