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September 2007
MARK YOUR CALENDAR
Upcoming Events for Children's Librarians
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September 2007MARK YOUR CALENDAR Upcoming Events for Children's Librarians |
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Online Newsletter by Sharon Levin: Want to keep in the loop with local children's literature events? Sign up for a (cost and obligation free) e-mail list. Over 500 'listees' including librarians, teachers, parents, bookstore owners, authors, illustrators etc. Don't want to be on the list, but have an event to publicize? That's fine too. Please e-mail sharonlevin@mindspring.com. Your e-mail is NEVER shared with any other lists, nor is it given to any individuals without your permission.
Painted Words and Spoken Pictures: A conference titled "Painted Words and Spoken Pictures" is planned for Saturday, October 6, 2007, on the Fresno State campus. Presented for authors, illustrators, teachers, librarians, collectors, and fans of children's and young adult literature, the conference is sponsored by The Arne Nixon Center for the Study of Children's Literature at California State University, Fresno, and the North Central California Chapter of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. Conference speakers will include: Aliki, Karen Cushman, Yuyi Morales, and Carolyn Yoder. The cost is $85 with discounts for members For information send e-mail to anc@listserv.csufresno.edu or call (559) 278-8116. Web site: www.arnenixoncenter.org
Multicultural Entertainment Extravaganza:
A showcase of multicultural dance groups, artists, storytellers and musicians for anyone interested in engaging performers for culturally rich community programs!
Saturday, October 13, 2007, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Mission City Center for Performing Arts
3250 Monroe Street Santa Clara, CA 95052
Registration Fee: $10.00 ($15 at the door)
Need more information? Call Diana Lara at 408-262-1171 Ext. 3623 (Call for registration form).
Peter Sis: Sunday, October 14, 2007
San Francisco Main Library, 2:00 pm
Peter Sís, a MacArthur fellow and internationally renowned artist discusses his memoir, THE WALL: GROWING UP BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN. The Communist Czechoslovakia of Mr. Sís's youth was a place where creativity could be discouraged but not easily killed. Graphic art, journal entries, and personal photographs illustrate the harsh realities of a closed society and the inevitable longing for freedom. Václav Havel, the former president of the Czech Republic, says, "Peter Sís's book is most of all about the will to live one's life in freedom and should be required reading for all those who take their freedom for granted." College students (undergrad and grad), teachers, librarians, and young adults interested in art, politics, and Eastern European history are welcome. (Not suitable for children).
Sponsored by the University of San Francisco, the San Francisco Public Library and the San Mateo Reading Association.
Reading the World X February 16, 17, 2008 University of San Francisco Join us to reflect upon a decade of Celebrating Multicultural Literature for Children and Young Adults, featuring many old friends from past conferences as well as new faces and voices - Alma Flor Ada and Leslie Tryon, Ashley Bryan, Sarah Ellis, Rita Williams Garcia, Naomi Shihab Nye, Doris Orgel, Peter Sis, Laurence Yep, Jack Zipes, and more... www.soe.usfca.edu/departments/ime/rtwconf
Adopt a School Library Month: The U.S. Senate passed a bill designating Sept. 2007 “Adopt a School Library Month.” The goal is to “raise puplic awareness about the important role school libraries play in the academic achievement of children.” Unfortunately, no funding was attached to the bill.
BayNews needs you! BayNews welcomes any articles, news, ideas on storytime or programs, etc. Just send any articles as a Word attachment to email, to Penny Peck at Pikly@aol.com. Thanks!
OBITUARY: MADELEINE L'ENGLE
Newbery Medalist Madeleine L'Engle, author of A Wrinkle in Time, died on Sept. 6, 2007 at the age of 88. It is considered the first science fiction book to be a Newbery winner; four sequels followed. Meet the Austins kicked off another series which was nearly as popular, the 4th installment, A Ring of Endless Light, was a Newbery Honor book. The Smith College graduate and Manhattan native was a stage actress before she was a novelist. Her husband Hugh Franklin was also a stage actor, who later became famous as Dr. Charles Tyler on the TV soap opera "All My Children." Franklin died in 1986, their son Bion died in 1999. L'Engle is survivied by her daughters Josephine and Maria.
Reissues - Worth Buying?
Lionni, Leo. NICOLAS, WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?.
Knopf, 1987, 2007. $16.99, ISBN 9780375844509
In this anti-war story, a mouse Nicolas is carried off by a bird, but returns to tell his fellow mice of the bird's kindness. Originally written during the first Gulf War, it's back to help kids understand that hate, war, and prejudice are wrong. Out of print for the last ten years, this timely reissue looks as fresh and new as a debut book. Lionni's signature cut paper collage illustrations are set on stark white backgrounds. One dramatic illustration shows mice killing a bird with a pointed stake, complete with blood. Pair with Dr. Seuss's The Butter Battle Book.
Duvoisin, Roger. DONKEY-DONKEY.
Knopf, 1940, 2007. $15.99. ISBN 9780375840654.
The theme of self-esteem comes through clearly in this farm tale about a donkey who thinks his ears stick up too much. He tries wearing his ears to the side, and out in front, but this causes accidents. Fans of Duvoisin's farm animals, well-known to readers of the " Petunia" books, will find this a timely tale with full color illustrations. Out of print for 25 years, large main libraries will want this to complete their collections.
Knight, Hilary. THE CIRCUS IS COMING ... A PICTURE PARADE.
Random House, 1978, 2007. $15.99. ISBN 9780375840661.
Best known for illustrating Kay Thompson's "Eloise" books, Knight's salute to the circus has been revised and reissued after being out of print for more than 20 years. The full color, almost Peter Max-like psychedelic illustrations depict a diverse group of children and circus performers in fanciful dress. The new edition has a section saluting South America, and an afterword by Paul Binder, founder of the Big Apple Circus. The brief text runs along the bottom of each spread, set on a gray border. At the back of the book is a list of things for readers to look at in each illustration.
Great Websites for Children's Librarians
Recently, Jenny Sullivan of the Greenville Public Library in Ohio sent the listserv PUBYAC a list of “Great websites for children's librarians.” I found it really useful and worth including here for more people to see, and to bookmark. Many of these sites are helpful for programming, storytime, readers advisory, and more (and thanks, Jenny, for including BayViews.org in your original list). Her original post has been edited for space.
familycrafts.about.com/od/craftprojectsbytheme Large selection of free craft projects sorted by theme. Make crafts related to everything from animals to transportation.
www.abcteach.com This is the place for kids, parents, student teachers, and teachers. Free Printables: 5000+ free printable pages and worksheets. Subscription required for many of the resources, however much of it is free to visitors.
www.activitiesforkids.com Provides information regarding family activities, childcare, private schools, after school activities, and products and services for your children, all within your state or area code.
www.atozkidsstuff.com Free lessons and activities for Toddlers, Pre-Schoolers, and School-Age children. This sight also includes links to reviews of Children's music, movies, and books.
childfun.com Provides craft ideas, printable coloring pages, and other activities parents can do with young children.
www.coloringbookfun.com a division of childfun.com ColoringBookFun is still the largest free coloring page site on the internet.
www.coloringpages.net Choose from hundreds of printable coloring pages for kids! Disney coloring pages like Winnie the Pooh and other characters like Scooby Doo are favorites. Includes a large selection of Bible and Christian pages, and of course, many, many holiday pages!
www.crayola.com Find rich, hands-on learning experiences that can be searched by subject, theme, grade, media, and completion time.
www.dltk-kids.com Features a variety of fun, printable children's crafts, coloring pages and more including projects for holidays, educational themes and some of our children's favorite cartoon characters.
www.enchantedlearning.com Full of craft ideas, coloring pages, and other reproducibles.
www.familyfun.go.com Great ideas. Practical advice. Fun stuff to do. Lots of activities and crafts sorted by theme or age group.
www.first-school.ws First-School features free fun preschool lesson plans, educational early childhood activities, printable crafts, worksheets, calendar of events and other resources for children of preschool age. The preschool crafts, lesson plans and activities are appropriate and adaptable for toddlers, preschoolers and kindergarten level (ages 2 to 6).
www.carolhurst.com This is a collection of reviews of great books for kids, ideas of ways to use them in the classroom and collections of books and activities about particular subjects, curriculum areas, themes and professional topics.
midhudson.org/resources/ezprogram.htm The EZ Library Program Directory was created by the Mid-Hudson Library System to help librarians find easy, inexpensive program ideas covering a wide range of topics, activities, costs and ages--from infants to adults.
stepbystepcc.com Whether you are a daycare provider, teacher, homeschooler, and/or mom you will find something here that will help you. Over 200 themed program ideas for preschool age children.
www.birthdaypartyideas.com The World's Largest Collection of Birthday Party Ideas. There are over 8,000 different birthday party ideas submitted by parents from around the world.
www.canteach.ca/elementary/songspoems.html With hundreds of lesson plans, thousands of links, and tons of other resources, including songs and poems.
www.cml.lib.oh.us Columbus Metropolitan Library website. The kids link at www.cmlkids.com is a great resource for booklists for different age groups and themed storytime ideas with downloadable craft.
www.everythingpreschool.com Contains over 30,000 early childhood education ideas separated into over 100 themes, 26 Alphabet Idea Sections, & Lesson Plans.
www.hcpl.net/cgi-bin/ebranch/story_time/browse.pl Harris County Public Library site. Includes craft ideas, storytimes, hand rhymes and more.
www.hummingbirded.com A resource site for early childhood-kindergarten educators.
www.kididdles.com A great site for children's song lyrics. You can even listen to the music for some.
www.perpetualpreschool.com Over 12,000 free ideas for parents and educators of young children. Includes ideas for daily themes, seasonal themes and holiday themes.
www.preschooleducation.com Preschool Education has many ideas for themed programming that are easily adaptable to library storytimes.
www.preschoolrainbow.org Preschool education activities and early childhood education lesson plans that give preschool children choices. Ideas for pre-k and kindergarten teachers that enrich classroom curriculum are arranged by theme. Plus easy at home fun learning games. There's even a search function and an opportunity to submit your own ideas.
www.sunniebunniezz.com Promotes Storytelling; an Educational Kid Safe Site on the Internet. This site is for adults and kids alike. There are links to poetry, puppetry, clowning, magic, storytelling, puzzles, and activities.
www.surlalunefairytales.com/storytime/index.html Former librarian Heidi Anne Heiner has listed great storytime themes, with popular children's books, songs, fingerplays, and even DVD ideas. Great for those who are relatively new storytime presenters.
www.teachersandfamilies.com A websource developed by teachers for students and their parents. The site offers free learning resources for pre-K through high school students. Created by the Network for Instructional TV, Inc., a not for profit learning and technologies corporation established in 1979 and appeared on the web in 1998. You may also subscribe to an expanded library of preschool activities and worksheets and other resources for K-12 students.
www.thevirtualvine.com A resource for Early Childhood teachers, preschool through second grade. It's a site filled with ideas and activities to make teaching and learning FUN through themes and units, displays, literacy and math activities.
www.thebestkidsbooksite.com An interactive media channel where books, crafts, podcasts, online video, and web sources intersect.
www.dawcl.com "The purpose of this database is to create a tailored reading list of quality children's literature or to find out if a book has won one of the indexed awards."
www.cmlkids.com The Columbus Metropolitan Library's kid's page. The "Discover New Books" link has great lists of books appropriate to all age groups.
www.childrensliteraturenetwork.org "Children's Literature Network provides connection, encouragement, education, camaraderie, and programming for adults who are passionate about encouraging kids to read." Includes booklists, authors birthdays and bios, and will even host author illustrator's pages. Does ask for membership but is not required to use the site.
www.carolhurst.com This is a collection of reviews of great books for kids, ideas of ways to use them in the classroom and collections of books and activities about particular subjects, curriculum areas, themes and professional topics.
www.anchoragelibrary.org The Anchorage Alaska Public Library website. Under Guides, go to Kids. Booklists include 3 Year Olds & Under, 3-5 Year Olds Part II, Battle of the Books 2006/2007, Beginning Chapter Books, Caldecott Awards, Dinosaur Books, Letter Literature, Awards, Titles, Historical, If you like Harry Potter...,Once Upon a Heroine, Picture Books by Themes, Read It, Story Packets
nancykeane.com/rl The most comprehensive booklist site available (In my opinion). ATN (All Together Now) reading lists were started in 1996 for librarians not only to use as a resource but to contribute as well.
atn-reading-lists.wikispaces.com ATN Reading Lists was started in 1996 as part of a librarian collaborative project, All Together Now, begun by Dale Copps. ATN Book Lists has grown significantly since its birth in 1996 and now there are over 1,300 lists on the site!
librarygoddesses.pbwiki.com A place for librarians to share their booklists.
www.bookadventure.com Book Adventure is a FREE reading motivation program for children in grades K-8. Children create their own book lists from over 7,000 recommended titles, take multiple choice quizzes on the books they've read, and earn points and prizes for their literary successes. Book Adventure was created by and is maintained by Sylvan Learning. Visit the Teacher's Lounge link to find links to lists including Lists, Awards, and Reviews.
www.bookwink.com Bookwink is devoted to recommending the very best books for kids and teens. Each weekly video booktalk is about a different topic, and additional books on every topic can be found on the Bookwink website.
www.earlyliterature.ecsd.net/predictable_books.htm Predictable books make use of rhyme, repetition of words, phrases, sentences and refrains, and such patterns as cumulative structure, repeated scenes, familiar cultural sequences, interlocking structure and turn-around plots. These stories invite children to make predictions or guesses about words, phrases, sentences, events and characters that could come next in the story.
www.guysread.com Jon Scieszka's website. He says, "Guysread is a web-based literacy program I've made to help boys find stuff they like to read."
www.hedgehogbooks.com Led by Vanya Jackowski, Hedgehog Online Children's Bookstore is the brainchild of teachers who passionately believe that reading aloud to children will set them on a life-long journey of learning and exploration.
www.helpingbooks.lib.oh.us Helping Books Connection is a resource center compiled to assist families and caring adults with finding and using quality children's literature as a tool for individual and group discussion activities
www.kidsreads.com Kidsreads is the best place on the web for kids to find info about their favorite books, series and authors
www.randomhouse.com/teachers/librarians Random House vendor's website; has some great search tools.
falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/biochildhome.htm Welcome to the Internet School Library Media Center's index to author and illustrator Internet sites. The ISLMC is a meta-site designed to foster easy access to curriculum related sites for teachers, school librarians, parents and students.
www.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/index.html The Children's Literature Web Guide. At this well-organized site you will find a comprehensive set of links to all kinds of Children's Literature related sites.
kids.nypl.org/reading/index.cfm ON-LION for Kids page. Includes links to Award winning books, authors and illustrators, children's book publishers, and recommended reading.
www.easyfunschool.com EasyFunSchool has over 1,500 pages of articles, resource links, a newsletter, and many other features to make home-schooling more enjoyable for both child and parent!
www.harpercollins.com A publishers website that lists books by category, author, etc. Also has links to author websites.
www.janbrett.com Author Jan Brett's website. 9,868 pages of free activities, coloring pages, and projects.
www.ipl.org The Internet Public Library. The IPL was founded by a class at the University of Michigan's School of Information, and Michigan SI students almost exclusively generated its content and managed the Ask a Question reference service. The kidspace link is great and includes booklists, fun stuff, authors, links to all kinds of other sites and more.
www.kaboose.com/index.html Kaboose: Where Families Get Going. Links to crafts, holidays, travel, parties, games, clipart and more.
www.mcpl.lib.mo.us Mid-Continent Public Library, Missouri. Includes reader's advisory, books with movie tie-ins, a very thorough series list, and award winners.
Submitted by : Penny Peck, San Leandro Public Library
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