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August 2010
MARK YOUR CALENDAR
Upcoming Events for Children's Librarians
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August 2010MARK YOUR CALENDAR Upcoming Events for Children's Librarians |
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ACL MEETINGS NOW HELD IN BERKELEY: - Please note that due to furlough closing days in Oakland, ACL will now be meeting at the Berkeley Main Library. Thanks to both libraries for serving as host sites to ACL.
NINA LINDSAY'S ARTICLE IN HORN BOOK: :
ACL member Nina Lindsay wrote the article “"Newbery 2010: The United States of Newbery,"" for the July/August 2010 issue of The Horn Book Magazine. Congratulations Nina and such a thoughtful, interesting article!
HAYLEY BEALE'S ARTICLE IN CHILDREN & LIBRARIES:
ACL member Hayley Beale cowrote the article ""Natural Wonders: Implementing Environmental Programming in Libraries,"" which appeared in the Spring 2010 issue of Children & Libraries, the journal of the Association of Library Service to Children. Congratulations!
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 baynews@bayviews.org. Thanks!
Pop-up and Flap Books
by Penny Peck, San Leandro Public LibraryCallery, Sean. Hide and Seek in the Jungle. Illus. by Rebecca Robinson. Kingfisher, 2010. $9.99. ISBN 9780753463925.
With board book-like pages, small cutouts, and a simple rhyming game, this should appeal to toddlers who can guess the animals pictured in each spread. After looking at the picture and reading the rhyme, a page folds open to reveal the animal. Both the animal and background foliage is painted realistically, and the last page has color photos and facts about the jungle rainforest. A great addition to storytime because the pictures can carry and the group can call out the answer.
Chancellor, Deborah. Animals Around the World. Illus. by Anthony Lewis. Kingfisher, 2010. $12.99. ISBN 9780753463932.
Very small flaps contain facts about different animals, in a book that may be better suited as a gift and not for library use. Each spread shows a habitat, including a desert, rainforest, woodland, savanna, coral reef, Arctic, and Himalayas, with small illustrations of animals and a few facts. There is no story, but a child who loves going to the zoo or wildlife center would enjoy this book.
Boisrobert, Anouck, and Rigaud, Louis. Popville.. Roaring Brook Press, 2009/2010 first U.S. edition. $16.99. ISBN 9781596435933.
In this wordless pop-up book, we first see a small red house surrounded by trees. The next page shows more houses, then a town, then finally a large city with a bridge, streetcars, and more. The art style is box-like, almost cubism, and this may not have a lot of child appeal. But architecture fans will certainly enjoy this, and teachers could use it in a unit on community. An intriguing, unusual pop-up book.
Mitton, Tony. Rumble, Roar, Dinosaur! More Prehistoric Poems With Lift-the-Flap Surprises! Illus. by Lynne Chapman. Kingfisher, 2010. $12.99. ISBN 9780753419328.
In this sequel to Gnash, Gnaw, Dinosaur!, Mitton offers six more dinosaur rhymes, accompanied by Chapman's full color cartoon-style artwork that appears to be done with pastel chalks. Each poem features a title dinosaur, such as the Stegosaurus, while each spread has a large, sturdy flap that reveals that happens to the creatures that bother the dinosaur. Most of the poems have a nice couplet rhyme pattern that is perfect for preschoolers. The endpapers offer a chart on the dinosaurs with a fact about each one, and a pronunciation guide. A fun package that should stand up to library circulation, and should pair nicely with one of Jane Yolen's dinosaur books such as How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight?
Submitted by : Penny Peck, San Leandro Public Library
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