KVS Incentive Award to

Dr. Cicy Roy Mathew

Kendriya Vidyalaya Pattom

gets yet another feather on

her cap as the Principal, Dr.

Cicy Roy Mathew receives

KVS Incentive Award for the

year 2009 for her meritorious

service.

The Library Media Centre has

launched a new Blog “My Dear

Book” exclusively for book reviews

by the students. The blog publishes

reviews of the books that the stu-

dents lend and read from the library.

Any student of the Vidyalaya can

send his/her book reviews to E-mail

librarykvpattom@gmail.com. After

editing, it will be published on the

blog. The reviews should be concise.

Let the world know about your dear-

est books.

Site url:

http://mydearbook.wordpress.com

Dr.D.Vinayachandran

M y D e a r B o o kM y D e a r B o o k : “ S a y t h e w o r l d a b o u t y o u r D e a r e s t B o o k s ”

F R E S H P I C K SF R E S H P I C K SF R E S H P I C K SF R E S H P I C K S

Title/Author Call No.

Imagining India: ideas for the new century/ Nandan Nilekani

303.4 NAN-I

Twilight, The Host/ Stephene Meyer

823 MEY-T/

Shadow Lines/ Amitav Ghosh

823 AMI-S

Show Business/ Sashi Tharoor

823 SAS-S

The winner stands alone/Paulo Coelho

823 COE-W

The wish maker/ Ali Sethi

823 SET-W

A better India a better world/ N R Narayanamurthy

303.4

NAR-B

K E N D R I Y A V I D Y A L A Y A P A T T O M

Library Bulletin Library Bulletin September 2009 Volume 2 Issue 3

Visit of dignitaries to the Visit of dignitaries to the

LibraryLibrary

The library celebrated World Book and Copy-right Day 2009 with various programmes from 23-28 April 2009. An exhibition of popular books, Book mark designing competition and a Meet the Author session with famous Malaya-

lam writer Dr. D. Vinayachandran were the main attractions.

The Assistant Commissioner Dr. E. Prabhakar, Education Officers, Mr. P.Devakumar, Mr. D.Manivannan and Dr.(Mrs)K.Usha Rani along with the Principals of Chennai Region visited KV Pattom and its Library on 24 July 2009. They were given an idea about the resources and services of the library and its future plans.

World Book and World Book and

Copyright Day 2009Copyright Day 2009

“School Library matters!”

P a g e 2 L i b r a r y B u l l e t i n S e p t e m b e r 2 0 0 9

The Silence of the The Silence of the

lambs lambs

By By

Thomas Harris

“A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti”

– Hannibal Lecter

The above-mentioned sentences are the world famous hair-raising confessions of the cannibalistic Hannibal Lecter, enlivened on the silver screen by the Academy Award winner Anthony Hopkins. To be frank, it is hard to come by a bloodcurdling novel like “The Si-lence of the Lambs” with its cool style of storytelling that could leave you in utter amazement whether it was really a horror story you had just finished! That is where the real success of this book as a best-selling novel lies in enthralling its audience, leaving behind us with a feeling of having drenched in cold water. In my opinion this novel is incomparable and indubitably stands out among the run-of-the-mill horror fiction. The adept ability of the author Thomas Harris is indeed praiseworthy.

The plot of the story mainly revolves around Dr.Hannibal Lecter, the name that sends a chill down the spine. He is portrayed as a psy-chopath, with extraordinary intelligence, secluded in a high security prison. The reader is first introduced to Clarisse Starling, an FBI agent who seeks advice from this sociopath on the whereabouts of a killer unrestrained whose modus operandi is to leave his vic-tims flayed. The rest of the novel is indeed breath-taking and mesmerizing, at times petrifying, yet suspense-filled.

All in all, the book has been weaved into a smooth tale of tracking-the-murderer in a unique manner resulting in gluing our eyes to its pages throughout. No wonder “The Silence of the Lambs” has been caught on reel to sweep off the Oscars in its time. Some horror novel this is!

Reviewed by Salini Johnson, XI A (Shift-I)

The World of NagarajThe World of Nagaraj By

R.K.Narayan

Rasipuram Krishnaswamy Narayanaswamy was born on 10th October, 1906 in Madras. He was educated at the Collegiate High school in Mysore and at Maharaja’s College, My-

sore. Narayan worked as a teacher and journalist before he pub-lished his first novel. He had published numerous novels, five collections of short stories, two travel books, four collections of essays and a memoir.

In this book, “The World of Nagaraj,” Nagarajs’s world is quiet and comfortable. He is staying in Kabir street with his wife Sita. They had no children. Nagaraj filled his days writing letters, drinking coffee, doing some leisurely book-keeping for his friend Coomar’s Boeing sari company and sitting on his veranda watching the Kabvir street and planning the book he intends to write about the life of the great sage Narada.

But everything is disturbed when Tim, the son of his ambitious landowning brother Gopu, decided to leave home and come to live with Nagaraj, because Gopu called him a bad word. Tim had very bad habits; Nagaraj was forced to take responsibility for the boy. Tim used to come late at night. But Sita waited for him all night till he came back.

One day when Tim came late at night there was a strong smell of spirits. Tim got married to Saroja. Saroja played her harmonium all day without any stop. Nagaraj found his days, suddenly filled with unwelcome complication and turbulence, which threaten to alter forever the contented tranquility of his world.

I liked the book, and in my opinion it didn’t have a proper ending that the readers wanted.

Reviewed by

Hemant S., Class IX B (shift II)

COPYRIGHT: LIBRARY MEDIA CENTRE, KENDRIYA VIDYALAYA PATTOM, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM. FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION ONLY

-Hindi Fortnight Book Exhibition

14-23 September 2009

-Gandhi Jayanti-Book Exhibition on Mahatma Gandhi and Non vio-lence , 30 Sept. – 5 Oct. 2009

-UN Day-Exhibition on UN and other international Organizations, 22-26 Oct.2009

Harry Potter Birthday CelebrationsHarry Potter Birthday Celebrations Forthcoming Forthcoming

ProgrammesProgrammes

Harry Potter is the most popular literary character of the young readers. To celebrate his Birthday and thereby promote reading habit the library conducted many programmes from 3 to 6 August 2009.

International School International School

Library Day (ISLD)Library Day (ISLD)

26 October 2009

Talk by an eminent Librarian

SMART WEB SEARCHER

CONTEST

Writing Birthday Wishes to Harry contest (3-5 August 2009)

Position Name, Class, Division

I Mahima, Renjini, Neethu, IX C

II Ayisha Sahu, VI C

II Salini Johnson, XI A

III Goutam B, X A

III Gayathri , XI A

Story idea writing contest for the next Harry

Potter Book (6 August 2009)

Position Name, Class, Division

I Salini Johnson, XI A

II Divash Mishra, IX A

III Neema K. Saji, VIII C

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