I am so excited to mark February with the new venture, Bedtime Stories, which will take place at the Morgan Grove Family Center. It will take place monthly and I will be reading some of my favorite fairy tales and picture books, hopefully, to an audience of parents and children. Of course, there will be popcorn to snack on.
February marks Black History Month and books featuring African-American heroes will be on display and ready for checkout by the children. While familiar heroes like Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks and Ruby Bridges are well represented in our collection, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Mohammed Ali, and Frederick Douglas are among others in our biography section and works by Maya Angelou and Langston Hughes can be found among our poetry books.
Groundhog books start the month and Valentine's Day, 100th Day and Presidents' Day fill the month quickly with readaloud stories the children enjoy. It is surprising such a short month can have so many fun activities to fill it.
Monday, January 31, 2011
Thursday, January 13, 2011
January's award winners
January is here and the BIG news of the year for Libraries and Media centers are the awards given at the ALA (American Library Association) Winter Meeting. The Caldecott Medal for Illustration was awarded to Erin E. Stead for the lovely picture book, A Sick day For Amos McGee written by Philip C. Stead. The books awarded honor status are the beautiful Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave illustrated by Bryan Collier and written by Laban Carrick Hill, and the hilarious romp Interrupting Chicken written and illustrated by David Ezra Stein. The first and second graders compared the styles of illustrations in this year's winner and some the previous winners and dicussed medium and style in the varied winners.
The Newbery Award for Children's Literature went to Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool. The honor awards went to Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night by Joyce Sidman, Heart of a Samurai by Margi Preus, One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia, and Turtle in Paradise by Jennifer L. Holm.
The Coretta Scott King Awards which honor contributions in Children's Literature by African-American authors and illustrators went to One Crazy Summer for writing and to Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave for illustration.
The Laura Ingalls Wilder Award which is given to a body of work by an author over a period of years went to a Hoover favorite, Tomie dePaola. His books are utilized year after year in author studies by several of the teachers at Hoover.
Most of the award winning books can be checked out by the children during their IMC time.
The Newbery Award for Children's Literature went to Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool. The honor awards went to Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night by Joyce Sidman, Heart of a Samurai by Margi Preus, One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia, and Turtle in Paradise by Jennifer L. Holm.
The Coretta Scott King Awards which honor contributions in Children's Literature by African-American authors and illustrators went to One Crazy Summer for writing and to Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave for illustration.
The Laura Ingalls Wilder Award which is given to a body of work by an author over a period of years went to a Hoover favorite, Tomie dePaola. His books are utilized year after year in author studies by several of the teachers at Hoover.
Most of the award winning books can be checked out by the children during their IMC time.
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