The new Battle of the Books reading list is OUT!
All titles HERE
Sign up for the Battle of the Books Monday SCA in Autumn 2024 to take part in the competition next year!
Well done to the 2023-24 team for arriving second in the semi-finals!
How to participate?
Choose a book you have enjoyed reading and would like to recommend to your fellow Harrovians.
Write a book review following the sample below. Make sure to include all the criteria shown in yellow.
Proofread your work: check for spelling and grammar mistakes, and see how you can improve sentence structure.
Send your book review to library@harrowschool.hk
Watch this space - your review might end up here. If your review meets the criteria, you will receive a free Lyon Café voucher!
NEW: The BBC has revealed its list of 100 inspiring and influential women from around the world for 2023.
The women are notable figures in the following categories: Climate, Culture & Education, Entertainment & Sport, Politics & Advocacy, Science, Health and Tech.
Head over to our Women's History Month page to find out who they are!
BOOK BINGO
An Initiative by Vanya Gupta
Inviting all HARROW Prep school students to participate in the Library Book Bingo Challenge!!!
Complete as many challenges as possible and bring your completed bingo board to the library before Monday 4th December to be entered to win a prize.
Please note you cannot write books you have read from previous years. This is all about new books you are reading throughout the Autumn term!
The Upper School Library celebrated National Poetry Day (October 5, 2023) with
Spine poetry & Push-Pin Poetry!
Display of Book Sculptures Art by
Year 8
BOOK WEEK 2023
28th Feb - 3rd March
(Check out our Book Week poster for all the fun activities that happened at Harrow Library)
We had some fantastic author visits in March.
Remember to look out for their books in the library!
Our Mystery Reads were a huge success! Did you get to borrow any?
Have you seen the impressive Book Plate exhibition on the walls of the Lower School Library yet?
#NationalPoetryDay Collaborative Poem
On October 6th, 2022, Upper School pupils celebrated National Poetry Day by participating in a collaborative school poem. They each picked a word from an envelope, and used it in a single line.
The Library team was very impressed with the quality of their contributions and put together a few poems by mixing and matching the students' (completely unrelated) lines.
You can read them below. We hope you find them inspiring!
Ivy was poisonous.
Her ethereal beauty shone like the rays of sun.
Ivy’s hair, people cannot bare.
Her hair swished in the Zephyr.
The woodnote soared through the sky with fury
While showing off her beauty.
Her hair was like heather.
The witch sirenized the little children:
She muttered and cast a spell upon them
Chimerical children in the playground – so happy, so excited
An undoable spell with immense chaos
And the once precious daffodils started to waver.
Canticles flooded my ears with joy
The pristine mountain and the rippling lake
The everlasting fields of heather
The clouds in the cerulean sky sailed across the sky with joy
As the wind blew the feathery fern,
The ancient fern that would never burn,
A tiny scintilla of light appeared and disappeared.
The kingfisher swept across the shimmering sea
And soared through the sky like an Olympic swimmer gliding through the water
The daffodil scent filled the air like the eloquent words of the poem I last read
I slowly fall into a reverie, not knowing what lies ahead.
No spell shall conquer the curse
The resplendent beam of his smile left me in awe.
I saw, just then, a spell book on the floor.
Lying on the bed, feeling the gentle Zephyr
A reverie crossed my mind as silent aches prodded my soul.
I watched, from my ethereal throne,
The heathers placed in delicate leather bags;
A sea of daffodils, swaying in the field;
The eagle soaring through the sky, its feathers as soft as ferns -
I was in his trap and in his enchantment, I fell.
[No title]
The world is truly confusing – and the confusion is like a spell
I do not know how to spell but I know how to smell
You smell ambrosial, I am tempted
You belight me, you surprise me, you make me glow with pride.
[No title]
We found a latibule to hide in.
The apricity of the sun travelled through the trees
There was a nice woodnote in the forest.
“Resplendent!” he said, pointing to the ball of light.