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From: "PUBYAC: PUBlic librarians serving Young Adults and Children" <pubyac@prairienet.org>
To: "PUBYAC: PUBlic librarians serving Young Adults and Children" <pubyac@prairienet.org>
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 11:01 PM
Subject: PUBYAC digest 1163
PUBYAC Digest 1163
Topics covered in this issue include:
1) Dog Reading Programs
by MzLibrary@aol.com
2) Results of picture book vs. easy book survey
by "Deborah Brightwell" <DBRIGHT@ci.coppell.tx.us>
3) RE: length of non-fiction children's books
by "Peggy Hagen" <phagen@mcls.rochester.lib.ny.us>
4) Re: Infant Storytime, bouncy?
by Steven Lamonea <lamonea@scils.rutgers.edu>
5) Stumper Solved
by Jennifer Parker <jmpwel@yahoo.com>
6) Stumper, revisited
by Margaret Siebert <psiebert12508@yahoo.com>
7) Stumpers
by "Linda Smith" <l.smith@vlc.lib.mi.us>
8) Re: Preschool Storyhour Craft with a Flyswatter
by Lora Morgaine <loraeileen@yahoo.com>
9) Songs about Art and Artists
by Jeanette Larson <larsonlibrary@yahoo.com>
10) My daughter met Jo Rowling!
by Cassie Wilson <cwilson2@woh.rr.com>
11) Re: length of non-fiction children's books
by "Bart Pisapia" <PisapiaB@mail.co.leon.fl.us>
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From: MzLibrary@aol.com
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: Dog Reading Programs
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 12:43:25 CDT
A patron came in today inquiring about these programs with dogs and young=20
readers. Does anyone know of a program in southern New England with
either=20=
a=20
library or humane society so that I can turn her on to one. She wants
to=20
volunteer her dog for a program. She lives in Temple, New Hampshire.
Thanks,
Charlotte
Charlotte Rabbitt, Children's Librarian
Peterborough Town Library =20
Peterborough, New Hampshire
mzlibrary@aol.com
http://mrsrabbitt.blogspot.com
crabbitt@townofpeterborough.us
http://townofpeterborough.com/library
"The library was a little, old shabby place. Francie thought it was=20
beautiful. She liked the combined smell of worn leather bindings, library
pa=
ste and=20
freshly-inked stamping pads."=A0 from A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty
Smit=
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From: "Deborah Brightwell" <DBRIGHT@ci.coppell.tx.us>
To: <pubyac@prairienet.org>
Subject: Results of picture book vs. easy book survey
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Dear Friends, here are the results of the survey of what public
libraries call books that are primarily a "picture" book. Also
here is
a list of what libraries call beginning readers (ex. Henry and Mudge,
etc.) which some libraries also responded.
EASY VS PICTURE BOOK:
Picture Books 28
Easy Books 18
Everybody Books 5
Easy Picture 3
Juvenile Picture 3
Junior Easy 2
Easy Fiction 1
Easy Juvenile 1
Easy Reader 1
Children's Easy 1
Beginning Readers:
Easy Readers 19
Beginning Readers 5
Easys 3
Juvenile Easy Reader 2
Early Readers 2
Beginning Reader Level 1, 2, 3 1
Children's Beginning Readers 1
Emergent Readers 1
Primers 1
Easy To Read 1
I Can Read 1
First Chapter Books 1
1 - 2 Readers 1
E1, E2, E3 1
Eager To Read 1
Thanks to all who responded. I think we are going to change our
"Easy"
books to "Picture" books. We are going to do it on the shelves,
spine
labels and computer. Its going to be a large project and might take
awhile, but we think "Picture" book is better than "Easy"
and we want
our signage, spine labels and computers to all be in line with each
other.
Our early readers are already called here by "Beginning Readers" and
we
are happy with that and our patrons seem to like that as well.
Thanks again! Debbie
Debbie Brightwell
Youth Services Librarian/Supervisor
Coppell Public Library
Coppell, Texas
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From: "Peggy Hagen" <phagen@mcls.rochester.lib.ny.us>
To: <pubyac@prairienet.org>
Subject: RE: length of non-fiction children's books
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Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 12:43:42 CDT
Renee
I'm interested in this "battle", because I have been
disappointed and frustrated with children's nonfiction for a few years
now. Not only are the books short and "watered down", but since
DK
introduced the Eyewitness Books, they are almost all written in little
"sound bytes" presented as captions for beautiful illustrations.
I
really wonder now if children would know how to pull information out of
a text written in actual paragrahs (f one was published).
Let Dorothy know I support her in this.. but I hope I don't have
to deal with radio folks. By the way, what is HomeGround Radio?
Peggy Hagen, Children's Services
Fairport Public Library
1 Village Landing
Fairport NY 14450
phagen@libraryweb.org
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Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 4:46 PM
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Subject: length of non-fiction children's books
I was recently contacted by the prolific non-fiction children's book
author Dorothy Patent. She is concerned that the length of children's
non-fiction and science books has been gradually cut back over the years
and in some cases the content has been watered down. She has been in
touch with HomeGround Radio about this problem, but they were dissuaded
from running the story after speaking with one librarian who disagreed
with Patent's assessment.
I am wondering what PUBYACers think about this issue, and am looking for
librarians who might be willing to advocate on the need for
longer/meatier non-fiction books for children. Please let me know if you
would like me to pass your name along to Dorothy Patent to provide to
Home Ground radio as a supporter of her cause. Thanks a bunch.
Renee Vaillancourt McGrath, MLS
Library Consultant
248A. N. Higgins Ave. #145
Missoula MT 59802
librenee@aol.com
(406)777-1228 (phone or fax)
*home office - please phone or fax between 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. MST*
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From: Steven Lamonea <lamonea@scils.rutgers.edu>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: Re: Infant Storytime, bouncy?
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Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 12:43:51 CDT
Wanda
I would highly recommend bouncing a doll. I used to use a Curious George
doll and would not only use it with the bouncy stuff but with other rhymes
like Criss Cross Applesauce because sometimes the parents would be
watching me instead of doing the activity with their child.
Steven
> Hi,
>
> All the feedback you guys are giving me is wonderful. I have one more
> question though, what is a "bouncie" or "bouncy"? I'm
assuming its like a
> fingerplay except the mother or caregiver actually "bounces" the
baby.
> Also,
> what am I doing during the "bouncing" do I just recite the verse
and watch
> or bounce a doll or teddy?
>
> Thanks for helping a Newbie out!!
> Wanda
>
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From: Jennifer Parker <jmpwel@yahoo.com>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: Stumper Solved
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 12:44:00 CDT
Hello everyone,
I would like to say a big thank you to the many people who responded to the
stumper I posted eariler today. I had asked for help in locating a book
about a castle that was a favorite of J.K. Rowling when she was a child.
The answer is I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith.
My patron was thrilled!
Thanks for the help
Jennifer Parker
jmpwel@yahoo.com
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<DIV>I would like to say a big thank you to the many people who responded
to
the stumper I posted eariler today. I had asked for help in locating a
book about a castle that was a favorite of J.K. Rowling when she was a
child. The answer is <FONT size=3>I Capture the Castle by Dodie
Smith.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3>My patron was thrilled!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3>Thanks for the help</FONT></DIV>
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From: Margaret Siebert <psiebert12508@yahoo.com>
To: pubyac <pubyac@prairienet.org>
Subject: Stumper, revisited
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 12:44:09 CDT
Dear Collective Brain,
I have sad news. We have to think harder. The recommendations I received in
response to my stumper turned out to be the wrong titles, although they were
good stories.
The stumper concerned a book from the fifties about a boy in an iron curtain
country. His parents had escaped without taking him along. Now he is trying
to escape and be reunited with them. There's a scene involving a hay wagon
and one involving the boy skiing through no-man's-land.
The titles recommended last time were North to Freedom (Anne Holm) and
Flight Toward Home (Wolfgang Ecke). Does anyone have any other guesses?
Thanks.
Peg Siebert
Blodgett Library
Fishkill, NY
psiebert12508@yahoo.com
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From: "Linda Smith" <l.smith@vlc.lib.mi.us>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: Stumpers
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Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 12:44:17 CDT
Hello Everyone,
Two stumpers from our pages that were trying to remember books they
read when they were younger.
1. Teacher read to class in fourth grade, ~1995. Dad was building a
time machine, used part of a toaster to complete it and then
disappeared. Brother and sister went to search for him and all three
ended up in the time of the dinosaurs. She told me that it is not
Land Before Time.
2. High school age charachters, Girl name is Trish and the boy's
name is Colin. One of them has a reading problem and one has the
lead in the school's musical the Music Man.
If anyone has a clue please let me know and I will relay the
information to our pages. Thanks!
Linda
Linda E. Smith
Teen Librarian
Bay County Library System
Bay City
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From: Lora Morgaine <loraeileen@yahoo.com>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: Re: Preschool Storyhour Craft with a Flyswatter
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 12:44:25 CDT
Maybe someone has already posted this, but the Bubble Man here in Seattle
uses *unused* flyswatters to blow bubbles. It makes a million teeny tiny
bubbles and kids like it...not quite a craft but a good substitution. You
(the adult) just dip it in the bubbles and then move it through the air as
if you were going to swat a fly.
Lora Morgaine Shinn
Seattle Public Library
Seattle, WA
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From: Jeanette Larson <larsonlibrary@yahoo.com>
To: Pubyac <pubyac@prairienet.org>
Subject: Songs about Art and Artists
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Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 12:44:34 CDT
I'm looking for recorded songs suitable for preschool
related to art and artists. I don't need titles that
are about colors and mixing colors or rainbows.
Rather, I'd like songs related to the action of
creating art--drawing, painting, fingerpainting,
sculpting, etc. I've checked Children's Jukebox and a
bunch of song indexes but am hoping someone might
think of one or two. Please reply to me
(larsonlibrary@yahoo.com) and I'll
compile a list of
responses. Thanks!
=====
Jeanette Larson
Youth Services Manager
Austin Public Library
P.O. Box 2287
Austin, TX 78768-2287
512-974-7405
larsonlibrary@yahoo.com
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From: Cassie Wilson <cwilson2@woh.rr.com>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: My daughter met Jo Rowling!
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Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 12:44:44 CDT
Hello, gang!
I was just talking to my baby daughter (age 21) who is spending her
summer in Edinburgh, Scotland, waiting tables or something to support
herself before going back to her humdrum life in New Orleans as a
student at Tulane University. She just casually mentioned that she had
forgotten to tell me that she met J.K. Rowling!!! At a bookstore. On
the night when the latest book was released!
She was on her way home from work (I don't even want to think about
that) and saw a crowd at one of her favorite bookstores, so she had the
cabdriver let her off. She was just thinking to herself that all those
children were up way too late when she realized WHY they were up
late---the new HP had just been released. She noticed that there was a
cluster of kids around a table and then realized why: Rowling was
sitting there. She had apparently tired of autographing and stopped,
but she TOUCHED Morgen's book in talking to her (I think an autograph
would have been worth more money, but then Morgen will never sell the
book anyway. Still. She had traveled farther to be there than most of
the kids, I'll bet since we live in Ohio.).
She said that Rowling was really great with the kids; she was asking
them what they liked about the books and what they hoped would happen in
the future ones and really seemed interested in them. Morgen asked
(having just bought HPV) when they next book would be out, and Rowling
said that she wasn't contractually obliged to write any more, so there
didn't have to be more, but that she had already started the next one.
Can this be true? I thought she was under contract from the beginning.
I'll bet somebody is really kicking himself for that one if she isn't.
Can you imagine meeting her in the flesh? Accidentally? That child
is
so lucky. She also met Nicholas Cage when he rented the club she works
for in New Orleans for a party.
I can't even afford to go to Edinburgh. No fair.
Sorry to waste your time when I really had nothing to say. I was just
so excited and no one else who would appreciate it properly to tell.
Cassie
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From: "Bart Pisapia" <PisapiaB@mail.co.leon.fl.us>
To: <Librenee@aol.com>,<PUBYAC@prairienet.org>
Subject: Re: length of non-fiction children's books
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Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 12:44:52 CDT
I have noticed that some publishers seen to create a book series out of =
information that used to be contained in a single book. For
example...what=
could have been a single, 130 page book about the Navajos becomes =
"Shelters of the Navajos", "Foods of the Navajos",
"Music of the Navajos", =
"Art of the Navajos", "Religion of the Navajos",
etc... All these books =
would be about 24-32 pages long. =20
I figured they did it so they could charge $21.95 for each of
five =
books instead of just one. Am I wrong? You can pass my name on.
Bart Pisapia
LeRoy Collins Leon County Library
Tallahassee, Florida=20
>>> Librenee@aol.com 07/18/03
04:45PM >>>
I was recently contacted by the prolific non-fiction children's book =
author
Dorothy Patent. She is concerned that the length of children's non-fiction
and
science books has been gradually cut back over the years and in some cases
the
content has been watered down. She has been in touch with HomeGround Radio
about this problem, but they were dissuaded from running the story after
speaking with one librarian who disagreed with Patent's assessment.
I am wondering what PUBYACers think about this issue, and am looking for
librarians who might be willing to advocate on the need for longer/meatier
non-fiction books for children. Please let me know if you would like me to
pass your
name along to Dorothy Patent to provide to Home Ground radio as a =
supporter
of
her cause. Thanks a bunch.
Renee Vaillancourt McGrath, MLS
Library Consultant
248A. N. Higgins Ave. #145
Missoula MT 59802
librenee@aol.com=20
(406)777-1228 (phone or fax)
*home office - please phone or fax between 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. MST*
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