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From: "PUBYAC: PUBlic librarians serving Young Adults and Children"
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To: "PUBYAC: PUBlic librarians serving Young Adults and Children" <pubyac@prairienet.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 11:01 PM
Subject: PUBYAC digest 772
PUBYAC Digest 772
Topics covered in this issue include:
1) Bibliography: Favorite Children's Books of Massachusetts
by "Janet Eckert" <jeckert@wmrls.org>
2) RE: where do you shelve your graphic novels?
by Lawrence Johnson <johnson@snap.lib.ca.us>
3) Re: where do you shelve your graphic novels?
by "Olivia Spicer" <ospicer@loudoun.gov>
4) drama club mystery stumper
by "Cindi Carey" <ccarey@timberland.lib.wa.us>
5) Re: American Girls Program - Ideas?
by Marya Kilbourne <loonlake14826@yahoo.com>
6) Re: American Girls Program - Ideas?
by "Marge Tassione" <tassione@SLS.LIB.IL.US>
7) Multi-generational Program
by Ann Keller <Ann.Keller@cityofcarrollton.com>
8) Library Mascots
by "Glenice Molter" <slo_glenice@stls.org>
9) Re: Filtering software in children's libraries
by Cathy Wilterding <wilterding@tarleton.edu>
10) Re: Snow Dogs/Gary Paulsen
by Jennifer Baker <jbaker93711@yahoo.com>
11) Re: where do you shelve your graphic novels?
by "Karina Barszewski (Canandaigua)" <kbarszewski@pls-net.org>
12) Results - Animal Adventures
by Katie Bunn <kbunn@farmington.lib.ct.us>
13) visit from kindergarten kids - what'll i do???????
by "G Byrne" <gbyrne@killingworthla.libraryofconnecticut.org>
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From: "Janet Eckert" <jeckert@wmrls.org>
To: <pubyac@prairienet.org>
Subject: Bibliography: Favorite Children's Books of Massachusetts
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Dear Colleagues,
Looking for a good book? Be sure to visit our website -
http://www.wmrls.org/services/youth/MABookList2002.PDF
Librarians throughout Massachusetts recently sent me a listing
of their favorite children's book titles. Our completed list -
featuring 213 great reads! - is now available in pdf format at
http://www.wmrls.org/services/youth/MABookList2002.PDF
We hope that you will visit our website soon!
Sincerely,
Janet Eckert
Youth Services Consultant
Western Massachusetts Regional Library System
jeckert@wmrls.org
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From: Lawrence Johnson <johnson@snap.lib.ca.us>
To: "'pubyac@prairienet.org'"
<pubyac@prairienet.org>
Subject: RE: where do you shelve your graphic novels?
Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 14:59:22 CDT
Our graphic novels are shelved in the nonfiction section.
Lawrence Johnson, Jr.
Young Adult Librarian
John F. Kennedy Library
505 Santa Clara St.
Vallejo, CA 94590
Phone: 707-553-5354
Fax: 707-553-5567
E-mail: johnson@snap.lib.ca.us
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From: "Olivia Spicer" <ospicer@loudoun.gov>
To: <pubyac@prairienet.org>
Subject: Re: where do you shelve your graphic novels?
Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 14:59:27 CDT
Hi! We have all of our graphic novels shelved in the YP Fiction section, =
excepting those that are considered cartoons, which are shelved in the =
741.5 area. We have had much discussion about this in our system.
Olivia I. Spicer
Youth Services Librarian
Loudoun County Public Library
Rust Library
380 Old Waterford Rd.
Leesburg, VA 20176
Tel: 703-737-8423
Email:ospicer@loudoun.gov
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From: "Cindi Carey" <ccarey@timberland.lib.wa.us>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: drama club mystery stumper
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Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 14:59:33 CDT
Dear pubyac folks,
I have a stumper. A teenage patron named Katie, describes the book like
so: A girl goes to drama camp. She plays Ophelia in a production of
hamlet. She also solves a murder mystery that may be 40 years old.
Katie read this several years ago in hardcover, but she doesn't
remember if it was a JF or YA. Any ideas?
Thanks for your help.
Cindi Carey
Lacey, Washington
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From: Marya Kilbourne <loonlake14826@yahoo.com>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: Re: American Girls Program - Ideas?
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Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 14:59:39 CDT
Hello,
I also did the Minuet program at our public library.
I found a fifth grader who played piano and brough an
electric keyboard in for her to play while the rest of
us danced through the library. I have also had great
luck with making the
polmanders (sp?) from oranges and cloves (Felicity).
Make sure you buy good oranges like Sunkist. The
cheaper ones will ROT before they dry out.
For Kirstin I found a woman who was of Scandanavian
ancestry and had the St. Lucia outfit, complete with
battery operated candles on a wreath for her head.
Girls and I paraded behind her singing the Santa Lucia
song and then we ate Swedish bread.
Marya Kilbourne.
--- joan blalock <jbisc2004@yahoo.com>
wrote:
>
> Hi, I work at the Spartanburg County Public
> Library...last year an idea for
> an American Girls tea party grew into a 9 month
> program for our 1st Sunday
> at the library programs...it was so popular that we
> had to have a sign up to
> keep it manageable...we used 3 resources...1)
> Welcome to ...World(each girl
> has a non fiction book about her time in history.
> 2)The american girls
> party book by michelle jones and 3)the american girl
> little books. We had a
> tasting party, a craft, booktalked the little books
> and even did the minuet
> (found in the back of one of the little Felicity
> books) You can make it as
> detailed or as simple as you like because your
> audience will consists of
> girls who are interested in and informed about this
> series...Good Luck and
> Have fun
>
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From: "Marge Tassione" <tassione@SLS.LIB.IL.US>
To: <pubyac@prairienet.org>
Subject: Re: American Girls Program - Ideas?
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Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 14:59:46 CDT
We held a mother/daughter tea party. We limited it to 50 and had about 46.
We invited girls and their mothers. Served tea sandwiches (lots of work!)
and cookies and deserts. The room was decorated beautifully with matching
paper tablecloths and plates, cups and flatware. My daughter made the
floral centerpiece for the buffet table and mini corsages for each mother.
She wrapped potted geraniums for centerpieces on the tables and these were
raffled off. We placed bowls of pot pouri, ribbon and netting on the
tables
and made sachets. Soft music played while people helped themselves and
visited. We had iced tea, pink lemonade, and flavored tea bags and hot
water available also. We did not plan a lot of activities and the moms and
daughters enjoyed visiting with each other. They took lots of photos. It was
successful in that everyone seemed to have a good time, but I would only
repeat it if requested as I am not into American Girl parties. I'm a Harry
Potter, Jeopardy kind of person.
Margaret Tassione
tassione@sls.lib.il.us
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From: Ann Keller <Ann.Keller@cityofcarrollton.com>
To: "'Pubyac@prairienet.org'"
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Subject: Multi-generational Program
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Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 14:59:53 CDT
Lisa Wold, of Sparta Free Library, asked about multi-generational programs
any libraries might be doing and I was asked to inform her of our 2nd Annual
Battle of the Brains trivia tournament which will be held this June. Last
year we had 15 four-person teams competing for prizes, medals and glory and
we're expecting an even greater attendance this year. We had every
ethnicity and age group represented. The questions cover every subject
under the sun and it is recommended that teams have members with a broad
range of knowledge. We had quite a few families participate. Prizes
and
gift certificates are donated by area businesses. We have bonus questions
between the rounds where small individual prizes are given. This allows
time for grading of the teams' answer sheets. I expect to have
approximately 5 or 6 rounds of questions that are given orally to the teams.
If you have any further questions about this program, please feel free to
contact me.
Ann Keller
Carrollton Public Library at Hebron & Josey
4220 N. Josey Lane
Carrollton, TX 75010
972-466-3374
Ann.keller@cityofcarrollton.com/library
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From: "Glenice Molter" <slo_glenice@stls.org>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: Library Mascots
Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 15:00:04 CDT
Hello to all....
My name is Glenice Molter and I run a small branch library in Upstate New
York that is part of a larger system. We are looking into getting
a costume made professionally that would be used as a library mascot.
I was wondering if any libraries out there have a mascot that they use for
library functions, parades, etc. If so, could those libraries send
me
a possible picture and tell me how you came up with your character. We are
having a children's author help with our design and he was wondering how
animated other mascots were and where design ideas came from. Any
help
that you can give me will be deeply appreciated.
My address is:
Glenice Molter
Southside/Outreach Branch Library
378 South Main Street
Elmira, New York 14904
My e-mail address is slo_glenice@stls.org.
I look forward to hearing from everyone and thanks in advance for your=
help!!
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From: Cathy Wilterding <wilterding@tarleton.edu>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: Re: Filtering software in children's libraries
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Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 15:00:10 CDT
Rae,
For information about the downsides for filters, as well as information
about how they work, what they block and don't, comments about the filters'
effectiveness, and concerns about information access when filters are used,
you might want to read the articles at Peacefire.org
(http://www.peacefire.org/)
Cathy Wilterding
Reference Librarian
Dick Smith Library
Tarleton State University
At 10:12 PM 5/29/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>I have been asked by our director to investigate the possibility of putting
>Internet filters on children's computers in our new library (we currently
>don't have any Internet terminals in the children's room). For those
of
you
>who use filters on the Internet computers in your children's areas, what
>software do you use (e.g., BESS, CyberPatrol, SurfWatch, etc.)? if you
have
>experience with more than one software, which do you prefer and why?
>
>Also, do you require children to have their library card or a password in
>order to use the terminals, or can they just sit down and start in?
>
>Thanks,
>Rae Kozloff
>Children's Services Librarian
>Anacortes Public Library
>raek@cityofanacortes.org
>
>
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From: Jennifer Baker <jbaker93711@yahoo.com>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: Re: Snow Dogs/Gary Paulsen
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Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 15:00:15 CDT
my thoughts?
Did you see Shrek?
~j.
--- Jeanette Larson <larsonlibrary@yahoo.com>
wrote:
> I just watched the Disney movie Snow Dogs and the
> credits said it was "inspired" by Winterdance by
> Gary
> Paulsen. I've read Winterdance and don't see how
> the
> movie (cute as the dogs are) has any connection to
> Winterdance (other than being about sled dogs). One
> of the movie websites says the movie was originally
> going to be called Winterdance. The movie is not
> about the Iditorod, has the main character looking
> for
> his birth father, has Cuba Gooding Jr. moving from
> Miami to Alaska, etc. I'd hate to have anyone show
> this movie as a book tie-in! Anyone else see the
> movie and have thoughts?
>
> =====
> Jeanette Larson
> Youth Services Manager
> Austin Public Library
> P.O. Box 2287
> Austin, TX 78768-2287
> 512-499-7405
> larsonlibrary@yahoo.com
>
> __________________________________________________
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>
=====
~jenniferbaker
"If an item does not appear in our records, it does not exist."
~ Jocasta Nu (librarian from "Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the
Clones")
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From: "Karina Barszewski (Canandaigua)" <kbarszewski@pls-net.org>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: Re: where do you shelve your graphic novels?
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Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 15:00:23 CDT
At Wood Library we are starting a graphic novel collection as well. I am
planning to put all graphic novels in the young adult area next to the
fiction. I think they would get buried in nonfiction and the teens would
not be aware of their existence.
Karina Barszewski
Young Adult Librarian
Wood Library
Canandaigua, NY 14424
(585)394-1381
kbarszewski@pls-net.org
>
>From: "Jennifer Dillon" <Jennifer.Dillon@cityofdenton.com>
>Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 16:52:26 CDT
>To: <yalsa-l@ala1.ala.org>,<pubyac@prairienet.org>
>Subject: where do you shelve your graphic novels?
>
>We are planning to begin a graphic novels collection for the Denton
>Public Library System. The placement of the collection is under
>discussion. Should we shelve all graphic novels, fiction and nonfiction,
>in an area together? Or should we shelve the fiction graphic novels with
>Teen Fiction and the nonfiction graphic novels with their Dewey subject
>areas? Another possibility is shelving all graphic novels in 741.5 as
>cartoons.
>
>If you have a graphic novels collection in your library, where is it
>shelved?
>
>Thank you for your input! We are very excited about this collection and
>we can't wait to get it ordered and on the shelves for our patrons.
>
>Jennifer Dillon
>Youth Services Librarian
>Denton Public Library South Branch
>jennifer.dillon@cityofdenton.com
>
>
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From: Katie Bunn <kbunn@farmington.lib.ct.us>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org, speak@stephano.libct.org
Subject: Results - Animal Adventures
Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 15:00:31 CDT
Thanks to everybody who came through with suggestions to my post asking
for animal adventure books for grades 6-9. You guys are great! Here
is
a looooong compiled list. Hope I didn't miss anybody:
Don't know if this is what you're looking for...but I frequently
recommend "Incident at Hawk's Hill" by Alan Eckert. Briefly, it
is the
story of a shy, lonely six-year-old who wanders into the Canadian
prairie
and spends a summer under the protection of a badger. It is a fiction
book
based on a true event. We have a copy in the adult collection as well.
Titles sure to be mentioned by others
as well: Where the Red
Fern
Grows, Old Yeller, Black Stallion (Black Beauty, National Velvet,etc.),
Hugh
Glass Mountain Man, any of the Redwall series, The Yearling, Rabbit
Hill,
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, Follow My Leader, Sounder, Shiloh,
Charlotte's Web, The Good Dog (AVI), Shoebag (OK, that's a stretch--but
a
fun one!), CatWings, Strider, The Enormous Egg, Morgan's Zoo, Dr.
Doolittle.
Authors with several animal adventure
titles: Rudyard Kipling,
Jack
London, Jim Kjelgaard, Marguerite Henry, Jean Craighead George, Dick
King-Smith, Scott O'Dell. Less well-known but unusual books, are
written by
Indiana author Gene Stratton Porter. They have kind of a historical,
environmentalist tone.
Strangely enough, as I looked through
our upper-grade level
fiction,
I didn't see many (if any!) titles that had to do with water-animals.
So
you may want to look for those specifically. Hope this helps!
******
How about Horwood's Dunctan Wood, Richard Adams' Watership Down,
Brian Jacques Redwall series, Jean Craighead George's Julie of the
Wolves
series and her My Side of the Mountain series (well, Frightful's
Mountain,
anyway),
Hmmm, Avi's Poppy series, Naylor's
Great Escape,
Hope these help. - jeri
******
I know that you're really looking for more middle school, young high
school
books but this list that's on our web site might help. It's geared
towards
upper high school grades.
http://www.lfpl.org/teenpages/booklists/animals.htm
Hope it helps,
Krista Biggs
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Please put Poppy and the other Poppy books by Avi on your list. I
usually
booktalk them for 5th grade, but I was 25 the first time I read them and
fully enjoyed them.
-- Suzanne
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One author who does a good job with animal adventures, and manages to
get a
bit of ecology into the bargin, is Roland Smith. His titles. Thunder
Cave,
The Last Lobo and Jaguar are also in audio format.
Good luck,
Bargara Wysocki
Cora J. Belden
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Are you looking for anthopomorphic or realistic animals? Anyway, some
suggestions:
Anthropomorphic animals:
Poppy and others in the series by Avi
The Grand Escape and sequels by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh series
A Rat's Tale
Realistic animals:
The Incredible Journey
Rescue Josh Maguire
Star in the Storm
Martha Simpson, Stratford (CT) Library
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Jason's Gold by Will Hobbs, dog
Out of Nowhere by Ouida Sebestyen, dog
Ghost Boy by Iain Lawrence, dog & elephants
and an old nonfiction
Tituba of Salem Village, cat
Beth Tuohy
Toledo-Lucas County P L
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Not sure whether your patron is interested in animal fantasy? or
stories where the animal is the main character - and the plot is an
adventure?
But here are some that come to mind:
Animal fantasy
I just loved The Wainscott Weasel by Tor
Seidler and would
consider it appropriate for a 6th grader
Of course there are all the Redwall books
The Dark Portal and The Crystal Prison by
Robin Jarvis
Fire Bringer and The Sight by David
Clement-Davies
The Jungle Book?
Books by Claire Bell
Books by Tamora Pierce? (Wolf-Speaker...)
Books by Kate Thompson
Books by Kenneth Oppel
Animals - real stories told from the animal's perspective?
Many of Jean Craighead George's books?
Call of the Wild and other Jack London
books
Fire, Bed & Bone by Henrietta Branford
(this is EXCELLENT! -
told by a dog in Medieval England)
This is all I can think of right now - have a hunch it's more the
natural history type that your patron is looking for, and mostly what I
could think of were fantasy stories...
Do post your biblio when you've got it, that would be super!
Thanks,
Linda
******
How about Walter Brooks' "Freddie" books (talking pig, lots of
troubles) which are suitable to grade 6. Dick King-Smith's
books about Babe the Gallant Pig (and other adventuresome
animals). Richard Adams wrote *Watership Down* (rabbits
seek new, safer community--Rabbit Hill meets Exodus), *Shardik*
(giant bear mistaken for a god)and *Plague Dogs* (haven't
read it, but the title pretty much sums it up: two dogs used
in experiments escape their surrounds). Adams is suitable for
grade 9 and up) Brian Jacques *Redwall* series features
talking mice fighting all manner of evil predators in a medieval castle
setting. There's *Mrs. Frisbee and the Rats of NIMH* (intelligent
talking lab rats have escaped from the lab, help coiuntry mouse
wife move her family to safety.)
Now, if he's NOT talking about talking animals acting like humans
then there's *Black Beauty*, *Beautiful Joe* (a classic for all dog
lovers), *The Incredible Journey*, *Old Yeller*, and
*The Yearling*. It also seems to me that Alan Arkin wrote an
animal adventure fantasy (*The Clearing*?) some years back and
there is Aeron Clements *The Cold Moons* (badgers seek a new
community). "Wind in the Willows"? and--oh!--several years
ago,
SOMEONE wrote a book about an infant discovered and raised by
badgers (NOT *Incident At Hawk's Hill*--that's a different story.)
This one had a name like "Dunston Hold" or "Dunstock
Falls"--oh,
HELP! I sound like one of my patrons! (I'm sure it was a blue
book with white letters and had a picture of the author on the
back, too. Yes..I sound EXACTLY like a patron!) I want to say
the author was Roderick MacLeish, but I can't be sure. If anyone out
there recognizes this book, I'd like to know what the title
really was.
Anyway, that's what I can think of off the top of my head.
Hope it helps.
Michele
Bridgeport Library, Newfield Division
******
--
Katie Bunn
Teen Services Librarian
Farmington Library
Farmington, CT
860-677-6866
"People say that life's the thing, but I prefer reading."
Logan Pearsall Smith
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From: "G Byrne" <gbyrne@killingworthla.libraryofconnecticut.org>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: visit from kindergarten kids - what'll i do???????
Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 15:54:50 CDT
Any really great ideas out there for a visiting class of kindergarten
kids? A room mother organized a coin collecting project for her son's
class to raise $ to buy a book (actually they raised enuf for 4) for the
library and they're coming over to present it - i figure time for
reading 1 or 2, a booking signing segment, showing them where exactly
and on what shelf each one will be - but what else??????? any neat
suggestions would be appreciated - i've been asked to stay away from
food ( i hadn't even thought to have food!) but anything else goes!
thanks in advance
~gayle byrne~
killingworth library
email --------gbyrne@killingworthla.libct.org
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