Sourcing the books

How many copies of the books each school needs will vary. You will need to calculate how many children will read how many books how quickly.

LibraryThing lists

If you go to the LibraryThing catalog, the "Comments" field provides basic supply/source information,

Sourcing information for each title is being gathered in the "Comments" field of the LibraryThing list for each category.

Supplier codes used in LibraryThing:

- Bookaburra -- Cheryle Hum is the contact person;
- BookDep means you can order the books through Book Depository (UK) (which has free shipping worldwide);
- Follett refers to Follett Library Resources -- Titlewave (www.titlewave.com) -- which you need an account to get access to -- but if you don't have one, Tim Ramsey or Jenna Emerson can easily set you up;
- APD -- Shelly Chua is the contact person;
- NLB means the National Library Board of Singapore has copies available (which you can borrow through your D.E.A.R. account) and

Bookaburra

Download spreadsheet of books and prices here.

Follett Titlewave

See booklists of books and prices here.

Kinokuniya

Search their BookWeb online catalog

Jennifer Nelson / Childrens Plus

Book Awardbooks and prices

(NB: Like Titlewave, you need to request an account in order to login and access these.)

APD Books

Contact Shelly Chua

NLB (National Library of Singapore)

UPDATE (16-Sep-10) from Judy Kong at the NLB:

Just had a quick look at the NLB catalogue and confirms that most of the books in the latest Red Dot Award shortlisted titles are available at NLB except for the following (they are either not in our system, on order or being processed) :-

Picture Books

Title : Mirror (still processing)

Junior

Title : Matty Forever (not available in NLB)

Title : Tofu Quilt (not available yet)

Middle

Title : The Phoenix Files – the arrival (not available in NLB)

If any sch requires the rest of the titles (single or multiple copies), they can email me with their lists and I'll start requesting them from the other branches - thanks.

Jude@BMPL

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Links to National Library records:

PICTURE BOOKS:

How I learned Geography