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FESTIVAL SASTERA KANAK-KANAK (FSK2015)
FSK2015 telah diadakan di Dataran underground (Dataran Merdeka) dari 29 Oktober hingga 1 November. MBC telah hadir dan mengadakan pameran serta jualan buku.
Pada asalnya terdapat 4 atau 5 khemah bersebelahan Perpustakaan Kuala Lumpur. Satu khemah menempatkan 4 gerai. Maknanya banyak juga gerai yang menemani MBC. Namun pada hari kedua dan seterusnya semua gerai ini telah ditawarkan untuk berpindah ke underground kerana suasana dan cuaca di atas tidak begitu sesuai. Maka tinggallah MBC bersendirian di atas.
Sabtu 31 Oktober MBC menerima kunjungan 40 pelajar SESMA. Kami telah berikan taklimat berkaitan MBC dan juga Little Free Library.
Terima kasih SESMA atas kesudian datang dari Kuala Terengganu untuk menemui MBC.
SK BATU UNJUR
Majoriti pelajar SK Batu Unjur, Klang ini datangnya Dari Sabah. Ya Sabah!. Ibu bapa mereka bekerja Di sini. Hinggakan Kami terpaksa bercakap Sabah di sini bah!
MBC datang Ke sini kerana dijemput dan mengiringi Puan Noraminah yang beraktiviti Di Sekolah ini.
SK IJOK
Wah seronoknya dapat buku ….
Sedang tekun mengira duit siling dari tabung…
Alaaaa…… duit tak cukup laaaa
Waaaaaa…… best nya buku ini (tapi tak cukup duit)
Tengok saja boleh pakcik?…
Best ni….
Lain kali datang lagi pakcik ya… simpan buku ini, nanti kami nak kumpul duit.
cute…
Buku RM3 …
IDEA BERNAS GPM SK PANCHING
SK Panching di Pahang hanya mempunyai murid seramai 200 orang sahaja tidak termasuk pra-sekolah. GPM (Guru Perpustakaan dan Media) sekolah ini, Puan Sabariah Liman menghubungi kami meminta supaya MBC datang ke sekolahnya.
+: Dari segi bisnes, kami tidak boleh datang dari KL ke Pahang ke sekolah yang hanya ada 200 pelajar. Hasil jualannya tidak boleh bayar tol pun.
-: Tuan boleh datang ke sekolah yang ada berapa ramai pelajar? Saya ingin sangat tuan datang ke sekolah kami sebab ingin memberi pendedahan kepada murid-murid saya. Ini sekolah luar bandar tuan.
+: Jika ada 1,000 pelajar, kami boleh datang ke Pahang
-: Jika begitu, saya carikan sekolah-sekolah lain yang ada 1,000 pelajar dan tuan boleh datang ke sekolah meraka dan singgah di sekolah kami. Boleh?
+: Jika begitu, kami boleh pertimbangkan.
Puan Sabariah menghubungi GPM sekolah lain dan empat buah sekolah lagi bersetuju. Ini menjadikan lima buah sekolah semuanya. Ia mencukupi untuk kami datang bagi tempoh seminggu. Ia itu satu sekolah sehari. Berikut adalah sekolah asal yang dipersetujui:
SUMBANGAN FLYERS KEPADA MBC
MBC hanya menjual buku-buku PTS, ITBM dan Karangkraf yang terpilih sahaja. Ke mana-mana kami pergi, buku-buku PTS memang laku. Memandangkan diskaun yang bagus dan buku yang laris, sebenarnya MBC boleh menjual buku-buku PTS sahaja. Ini suatu pertimbangan bisnes yang perlu ditimbangkan dengan serius.
KARANGKRAF
Buku-buku Karangkraf pula kurang laris di sekolah. Murid sekolah tidak kenal buku-buku Karangkraf. Mereka tidak tahu siapa penulis dari Karangkraf. Karangkraf juga tidak mepunyai duta atau ikon untuk diperkenal dan dipopularkan di sekolah.
Akhirnya pihak pengurusan Karangkraf bersetuju dengan cadangan supaya flyers disediakan dan dibekalkan kepada guru dan murid di sekolah-sekolah yang bakal kami lawati. Perubahan drastik berlaku. Buku-buku Karangkraf menjadi sangat laris. Namun pertimbangan serius perlu dibuat supaya stok buku yang tercatat dalam flyers adalah mencukupi.
ITBM
Buku ITBM memang tersangat perlahan jualannya di sekolah. Pada pengamatan kami, ia disebabkan oleh harganya agak mahal bagi pasaran sekolah. Setelah ujikaji pertama berjaya, kami menguji dengan ITBM pula. Kami buatkan 10,000 flyers dan bawa buku yang mencukupi. Ternyata ia sangat laris.
Kini kami telah mengenalpasti bagaimana ingin melariskan jualan di sekolah.
– Menjual hanya di sekolah yang ramai pelajarnya (sekitar 1,000 pelajar)
– Jangan menjual hanya sehari.
– Flyers perlu diedarkan sebelum hari kejadian
– Jangan kedekut untuk menderma atau memberi hadiah
– (ada beberapa lagi yang sedang diuji).
Sehingga kini kami belum mengeluarkan flyers PTS, namun bukunya tetap laku. Ini tengtu ada faktor lain yang masih tersembunyi …
Patterson awards grants to 73 indie bookshops
Patterson awards grants to 73 indie bookshops
More than £130,000 has been allocated to 73 independent bookshops in the UK and Ireland in the first round of grants funded on this side of the Atlantic by author James Patterson.
Patterson has pledged to donate £250,000 to bookshops in the UK, with the money to be used to encourage children to read. It follows a similar venture in the US.
Any bookshop with a dedicated children’s book section was eligible to apply, with grants of between £250 and £5,000 awarded to each shop. In total there were 183 applicants for the first round of funding.
Among the successful bookshops [full list below] is Book-ish in Crickhowell, Wales, which will use its grant towards purchasing a camper van, which will go into rural communities. Far From the Madding Crowd in Linlithgow, Scotland, will create a “Hagrid’s Hut” children’s room in its existing hidden stockroom. The room will be a children’s space for activity and storytelling.
Meanwhile Gutter Bookshop in Ireland will use its money for new shelving and display materials, and the provision of a “Christmas ‘wow’ window” for children’s books. Newham Bookshop in London will create a reading and writing room for families in its existing stockroom, and purchase seating and replace the shop’s 35-year-old fascia. Walter Henry’s Bookshop in Bideford will spend its grant on reconfiguring the shop to open up a children’s room.
Patterson said: “I have been completely overwhelmed by just how many people have applied for the grants and impressed and enthused by the calibre of the applications. It’s been a very difficult decision process and I have worked to identify independent bookshops for whom this money may make a difference. I’m excited to follow their progress and see the proposed ideas in action.”
Tim Walker, president of The Booksellers Association, which helped to administer the grants, said: “We are very much looking forward to seeing the grant funding being implemented by the successful bookshops. We are thrilled that so many UK and Irish indies have shown such creativity and passion in their applications. For the lucky 73 shops, the James Patterson money will make a real difference to how they reach children and encourage them to read.
“There are some really exciting projects that this money will help get off the ground, from converting a van into a mobile school bookshop to running a model train around the shop to get kids engaged.”
Walker encouraged unsuccessful bookshops to reapply for the second round of funding, which will be awarded next year.
“I am very proud to be BA president at a point when a bestselling author is making such an unequivocal statement of confidence in the independent sector, and proud of the booksellers who are proving him right,” he added.
Eligible bookshops can apply for a grant via the BA.
The 73 independent bookshops to be allocated grants in the first round are:
Barnett’s of Wadhurst Stonegate
Barton’s Bookshop Leatherhead
Bell Bookshop Henley-on-Thames
Big Green Bookshop London
Blandford Books Broadway
Bloom and Currl Bristol
Book and Kitchen London
Book House Thame
Bookcase Nottingham
Book-ish Crickhowell
Bookpoint Dunoon
Books & Ink Bookshop Banbury
Books@Hoddesdon Hoddesdon
Burrows Bookshop Ely
Celtic House Bowmore
Chepstow Bookshop Chepstow
Chorlton Bookshop Manchester
Clitheroe Books Clitheroe
Cole’s Books Bicester
Crediton Community Bookshop Crediton
Dartmouth Commubnity Bookshop Dartmouth
David’s Bookshop Letchworth
Ebb & Flo Bookshop Chorley
Ennis Bookshop Ennis
Epping Bookshop Epping
Far From the Madding Crowd Linlithgow
Fitz-Gerald’s Bookshop Macroom
Fordingbridge Bookshop Fordingbridge
Forest Bookshop Coleford
Forget-Me-Not Culceth
Forum Books Kids Corbridge
Gerrards Cross Bookshop Gerrards Cross
GLO Bookshop Motherwell
Grove Bookshop Ilkley
Guisborough Bookshop Guisborough
Gutter Bookshop Ltd Dublin 8
Harbour Bookshop Kingsbridge
Horizons Bookshop Burnham
Hunting Raven Books Frome
Jacqson Diego Story Emporium Westcliff on Sea
Jaffe and Neale Chipping Norton
Kemptown Books Brighton
Kett’s Books Wymondham
Kirkdale Bookshop London
Leaf Hertford
Ledbury Books and Maps Ledbury
Lindum Books Lincoln
Little Ripon Bookshop Ripon
Mostly Books Abingdon
Nenagh Bookshop Nenagh
New Hedgehog Bookshop Penrith
Newham Bookshop London
Niche Comics and Bookshop Huntingdon
Octavia’s Bookshop Circencester
Pages of Hackney London
Pritchards Crosby
Rathfarnham Bookshop Rathfarnham
Red Lion Books Colchester
Rhyme & Reason Bookshop Sheffield
Scarthin Books of Cromford Cromford
Seaways Bookshop Fishguard
Siop Cwlwm Oswestry
Storytellers Inc St Annes on Sea
Swan Books Upminster
Tales on Moon Lane London
The Bookshop Kibworth
Torbay Bookshop Paington
Totnes Bookshop Totnes
Wallingford Bookshop Wallingford
Walter Henry’s Bookshop Bideford
Wenlock Books Much Wenlock
Whitby Books Whitby
Word Power Books Edinburgh
MENGAPA KAMI PAKAI APRON?
A: “EEiiiiiiiii, pakai apron, macam tukang masak!”
B: “Maaf tanya yer, mengapa pakai apron?. Saya tak pernah tengok orang jual buku pakai apron”.
C: ” Pakai apron ini sebab memang sini cafe ya?”
ITU adalah antara dialog dan soalan yang ditujukan kepada kami. Sebab apa kami pakai apron?
Kami mempunyai sebab yang tersendiri dan apron tidak semestinya dipakai hanya semasa di dapur.
Berikut adalah Top-10 mengapa pakai apron:-
10) Kitchen décor: Nothing gives a kitchen that “serious cook lives here” look as economically as a color-coordinated apron casually draped over a hook or hanging from the corner of a baker’s rack. It can really pull the room together as well.
9) That favorite gift: What inspired me to start swankyaprons.com in the first place were the reactions I received over a period of several months when I started giving aprons as gifts. At showers and birthdays, they always inspired the most excitement and outpouring of thanks from the recipient over even much more expensive gifts.
8) A bib for kids (and sometimes adults!) Long after the age when my eldest decided she was too old to wear a bib, I’ve been protecting her clothing by having her don an apron before especially messy meals. Not only is she more than happy to do so, aprons actually provide much more coverage than a typical bib. It worked so well I actually threw away my toddler’s bibs and started putting them on her as well!
7) Recruitment tool: Speaking of children, mine have never been happier to help me in the kitchen than when they’re wearing their “uniforms”. Pull out the apron, and my 7 year old who was just refusing to set the table suddenly wants to help toss the salad.
6) Motivational tool: Aprons don’t just motivate children. If I’m just not in the mood to clean or do laundry (again), all I have to do is dip into my apron stash to get my homemaker mojo flowing again.
5) Fashion Accessory: The vintage housewife look is all the rage these days.
4) Stain concealer: At least once I have thrown on an apron when the doorbell rang just as my toddler decided to try out her new marker set on my t-shirt while sitting on my lap. Instant clothes change!
3) Impromptu cleaning rag. Sometimes messes just happen and you have to use what’s on hand.
2) Image booster: Want to impress that new date with your kitchen prowess? He’ll be more likely to judge even less-than-stellar cooking as spectacular when he sees what a serious cook you are.
1) A marriage enhancer: Men love our lacy aprons especially, and a common search phrase for aprons I see is “apron and panties”. Enough said. 🙂
https://swankyaprons.wordpress.com/2010/07/12/top-ten-uses-for-an-apron-other-than-cooking/
KIRA-KIRA DAN BERKIRA
SETAKAT ini MBC hanya ambil/beli buku dari TIGA buah penerbit sahaja. Penerbit keempat mungkin tidak jadi ambil disebabkan beberapa faktor.
MBC sedang berkira-kira untuk hanya mengambil buku dari SATU penerbit sahaja. Ya, sedang berkira-kira. Berikut adalah sifir kira-kiranya:-
Penerbit Pertama: Consigment dengan 3x%. Untuk dapatkan buku SANGAT sukar. Perlu hantar emel. Disusuli dengan whatsapp dan telefon. Pergi tunggu di stor. Ada kalanya dapat buku. Ada kalanya dapat buku yang tidak ditempah. Di kala lain pula kita tempah sikit, diberinya banyak.
Penerbit sediakan flyers dan bunting. Mereka juga sediakan penulis sebagai penceramah.
Penerbit Kedua: Belian 4x%. Boleh tukar buku. Untuk beli buku, pergi ke kedai buku. PIlih buku dan bayar mengikut diskaun yang telah ditetapkan. Jika hantar emel pun mereka terima juga. Pergi kedai ambil sahaja buku. Jika tidak mahu datang kedai, mereka boleh pos buku (perlu bayar harga pos). Pendek kata tiap-tiap hari kerja pun boleh ambil buku. Buku mereka laku pula.
Penerbit Ketiga: Consigment 4x%. Tunai 4y%. Buku penulis 5x%. Mahu beli/ambil buku, tulis emel. Bila siap mereka beritahu dan pergi ambil di stor. Penerbit ini sudah janji untuk sediakan flyers.
Berdasarkan kira-kira ini, kami masih belum boleh buat keputusan lagi. Bagaimana ya?.
CORETAN MBC
1. MobileBookCafe (MBC) ialah sebuah Kedai Buku Bergerak dan bukan Perpustakaan Bergerak.
2. Mengapa BookCafe?. Mana Cafenya?:
Kami mengusahakan kafe-buku. Dalam kafe kami ada buku.
Walau bagaimanapun sesekali kami sediakan KOPI juga…
3. Mengapa MBC tidak datang apabila kami jemput?
Kami tidak boleh datang ke semua tempat. Kami perlu pilihan. Biasanya kami akan datang ke tempat yang kami boleh buat aktiviti mengenai buku. Pengalaman menunjukkan kami tidak boleh datang sekadar menompang aktiviti pihak lain.
D5 Creation