Best of 2011 # 3

Rebecca Cooper works for the Marketing Department in Libraries. She helps us put together a lot of our fantastic posters and was a vital part of the team that worked on Dare to Explore. She is always a sunny voice at the end of the phone and incredibly busy. I don't know when she finds time to read...

Extremely loud & incredibly close / Jonathan Safran Foer. (2005)

Heartbreaking and yet innocently inspirational in some ways. It made me realise that the events of September 11 will affect the psyche of many generations to come.

Storey's illustrated guide to poultry breeds : chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys, emus, guinea fowl, ostriches, partridges, peafowl, pheasants, quails, swans / Carol Ekarius. (2007)

As a new mother of hens this book fascinated me. It was also the cause of lunchtime hilarity on a number of occasions.

Hokitika Town / Charlotte Randall (2011)

I've started this and I'm taking it away on summer holiday with me. The story (narrated by a young Maori boy in his phonetic spoken English) immediately gives you a new perspective on things. His confusion as to why the English boats wear cloaks (sails) for example - beautiful imagery.