And the Bluebonnet Goes To...

Last week, this year's Texas Bluebonnet Winner was announced! About fifty students at Smithville Elementary voted in this year's contest, and chose The Strange Case of Origami Yoda as their favorite Bluebonnet Book. Kids all over Texas must have been in agreement, because Origami Yoda won the state vote as well!

Author Tom Angleberger was thrilled with the win. Here's a special video message from him to YOU! Check out what he had to say!

The Strange Case of Origami Yoda

The Strange Case or Origami Yoda
by Tom Angleberger

A nerd you say Dwight is, but on his side Yoda is. Tommy is starting an investigation to figure out how the original Yoda puppet that Dwight insists on keeping on his finger doles out such relevant advice. Kids present evidence (or lack thereof) trying to figure out if Yoda is real or something out of Dwight's imagination.
[Summary from Texas Bluebonnet Award Master List]

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Origami Yoda Sequel!

Tom Angleberger, author of The Strange Case of Origami Yoda, announced today that his next book, which comes out next fall, will be called Darth Paper Strikes Back!

Read more about the book and find instructions for folding an origami Darth on the author's blog.

You can also take a picture of your Darth and enter a contest to win a free copy of the book--before anyone else reads it!

Good luck, paper folders, and may the force be with you!

This Week in the Library...

Fourth and Fifth graders are listening to excerpts from The Strange Case of Origami Yoda, a hilarious book about what happens when a group of students starts taking advice from a piece of paper! Click here for the Origami Yoda website! Here's a video from the book's author about how to make your own origami yoda:

Third graders are listening to Dark Emperor & Other Poems of the Night, a collection of poems about nightfall in the forest. Here's a video which shows some of the book's illustrations:

These and many other new books have recently been added to the library. Come by to check them out!