Do you always judge a book by its cover?
How I see the world: the power of perspective

At RIS, we promote a love for reading by creating a community of inquisitive and critical readers who are able to make connections and identify common threads among different books.

Book Week, a much anticipated annual appointment, is a step in this direction. This festival is a school-wide celebration of books and reading around a shared interdisciplinary concept. Students will be involved in a series of educational and entertaining activities based on a list of very different books that share four common themes:

  1. Appearance / reality
  2. Deception
  3. Prejudice/ pre-determination
  4. Power

These are common threads which can help us understand how as humans we read the world. The power of image and appearance is undeniable. The way ideas and books are presented to us can impact on our judgement of them. Our own personal perspective affects the way we make sense of reality.

During Book Week, we will compare and read over 20 books apparently very different but that share these common themes.


Early Years and Elementary Books
  1. The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson
  2. Wonder by R.J. Palacio
  3. The True Story Of The 3 Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka
  4. Zoom and Re-zoom by Istvan Banyai
  5. The Pea And The Princess by Mini Grey
  6. The Wolf's Story: What Really Happened To Little Red Riding Hood by Toby Forward
  7. A Tale Of Two Beasts by Fiona Roberton
  8. They All Saw A Cat by Brendan Wenze
  9. Zoottica by Guillame Du Prat
  10. There's A Boy In The Girls' Bathroom by Louis Sachar
Middle and High Books
  1. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
  2. Middlemarch by George Elliot
  3. White Teeth by Zadie Smith
  4. Le Novelle by Luigi Pirandello
  5. L'Etranger by Albert Camus
  6. The Help by Katherine Sockett
  7. The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
  8. Stiff: The Curious Lives Of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
  9. The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat by Oliver Sacks
  10. Medea by Euripides
  11. Prejudice: Its Social Psychology by Rupert Brown


Programme Highlights

Early Years and Elementary

Middle and High

Book Week raffle

From Monday 12 March, Elementary students will be selling raffle tickets for charity, during exit time. Each ticket will cost €2.00 and a raffle draw will be held on Friday 16 March. The prizes will consist of 3 vouchers for Usborne Books, which can be ordered through the RIS librarians. Proceeds from the sale of tickets will be donated to the PTA's charity projects.