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All the small things...
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Let's get digital...
 Orca Digital Subscriptions are a unique and cost-effective way to provide ebooks to an entire school or library system. With the purchase of a subscription you get multiuser access to all of the titles in your collection.
There is no limit to how many users can read any book at the same time. The titles in your subscription can be accessed at school, in the library or at home. With our new premium subscription, users can even download ebooks
to their own devices, including smartphones.
For more info, email us or have a look at our informational flyer here.
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Saskatchewan Readers' Choice...
Four Orca titles have been nominated for the 2013 Saskatchewan Young Readers' Choice Awards.
In the Shining Willow category for readers up to grade 3, Something's Fishy, an Orca Echo by Jeff Szpirglas and Danielle Saint-Onge and illustrated by Dave Whammond joins Wallace Edwards' picturebook Uncle Wally's Old Brown Shoe.
In the Snow Willow category for older readers, Norah McClintock's Guilty and Redwing by Holly Bennett are on the list.
Last year, 13,000 readers participated!
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Think Pink...
On February 27, 2013 schools across Canada will take a stand against bullying by encouraging their teachers and students to wear something pink. A related anti-bullying campaign will be taking place in the US with International Stand Up to Bullying Day on February 22, 2013.
Pink Shirt day has its origins in an event organized in 2007 by two Grade 12 students, who bought and distributed 50 pink shirts after a male student was bullied for wearing a pink shirt on his first day of school.
Interested in creating a lesson-plan based around the topic of bullying? Here's a comprehensive list of books that cover the issue, including fiction & nonfiction titles.
And download the Text2Reader feature on online bullying here.
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Text2Reader goes global...
In February's Text2Reader, students take a global tour via the themes of friendship and community.
See all the details of this month's issue here.
Text2Reader is a Language Arts program for grades 6 to 8. Using selections from bestselling books, Text2Reader is developed by teachers and is correlated to the English Language Arts curriculum and Common Core.
Email for a sample issue or to learn more.
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