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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>
Subject: PUBYAC digest 1234
Date: 10/6/03 11:18:40 PM
PUBYAC Digest 1234
Topics covered in this issue include:
1) Teen Newsletter
by Vicky <vickys4444@yahoo.com>
2) PUBYAC: Read-alike request
by "Katrina Neville" <KatrinaN@moval.org>
3) Stumper
by "Mary Palmer" <Mary.Palmer@spl.org>
4) amime magazines
by Zandra Blake <zsblake@yahoo.com>
5) Stumper: Female Indiana Jones?
by "Amy Newcomb" <draekan58@hotmail.com>
6) PUBYAC- Monster origin
by "Suanne Newsome" <newsomes@mail.newton.public.lib.ga.us>
7) Needed: A Few Good States
by Jeanette Larson <larsonlibrary@yahoo.com>
8) RE: How to keep your composure.
by "Andrea Johnson" <ajohnson@cooklib.org>
9) My Side of the Mountain stumper
by "ysstaff" <ysstaff@eauclaire.lib.wi.us>
10) study of public library YA websites
by Mary K Chelton <mchelton@mail.optonline.net>
11) PUBYAC: Teen Halloween party ideas and Teen Valentine's Day party
by "Dawn Imada" <dawnimada@hotmail.com>
12) programming for fathers?
by Suzanne Klein <SKlein@EBPL.org>
13) K-3rd Homeschool book club compilation
by "Natasha Forrester" <nforrester@wpl.org>
14) Compilation of Interactive Fairy & Folk Stories (Long)
by susan sutton <susansutton_99@yahoo.com>
15) Downloading Music
by "Sandy" <hartsesa@oplin.org>
16) Mystery authors request
by "Megan Vanderhart" <Vanderhart.Megan@rigov.org>
17) Scarves compilation
by "Natasha Forrester" <nforrester@wpl.org>
18) Stumper: Scarface
by Lorie O'Donnell <Lodonnell@midyork.org>
19) Stumper solved (polar bear and trolls)
by "Paula Anderson" <paulaan@lori.state.ri.us>
20) Children's Book Stumper
by "Maria Trinca" <mtrinca@ansernet.rcls.org>
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From: Vicky <vickys4444@yahoo.com>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: Teen Newsletter
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 19:56:27 CDT
Our Teen Advisory Group (TAG) has expressed interest in doing a teen
newsletter for the library. They forsee this as containing original poetry,
stories, art workwork and reviews. Does anyone out there produce one? If
you have any info or comments on doing this, I would appreciate it.
Vicky Schoenrock
Warren-Newport Public Library
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From: "Katrina Neville" <KatrinaN@moval.org>
To: <pubyac@prairienet.org>
Subject: PUBYAC: Read-alike request
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 19:56:42 CDT
Hi all,
Am I imagining it, or was there recently a "Holes" (Sachar) read-alike
=
list that I erroneously deleted? If not, I will be happy to compile any =
suggestions sent to me at katrinan@moval.org!
Thanks for any and all suggestions!
Katrina
Katrina Neville
Children's Librarian
City of Moreno Valley
25480 Alessandro Blvd.
Moreno Valley, CA 92553
t: 909-413-3880
f: 909-247-8346
e: katrinan@moval.org=20
w: www.moreno-valley.ca.us=20
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From: "Mary Palmer" <Mary.Palmer@spl.org>
To: <PUBYAC@prairienet.org>
Subject: Stumper
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 19:56:57 CDT
Here is the stumper from a patron. Please e-mail me if it sounds
familiar to anyone. THANKS!
I'm trying to find a children's book from my past. It was oversize,
hardcover, probably from early 1960s. Story about a king and a small
island kingdom (possibly called Hamburger Island). It had color
illustrations of the island. I can't remember the name of it and
wondered if a children's librarian might know.
Thank you very much.
Mary.Palmer@spl.org
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From: Zandra Blake <zsblake@yahoo.com>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: amime magazines
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 19:57:12 CDT
Greetings, I was hoping that some of you may be able to offer any
advice
about the following anime magazines: ANIMERICA and SHONEN JUMP.
Since they
are both from the same publisher, I was wondering if they are very similar
in content, and if so, which magizine would be the better one to subscribe
to. Thanks so much for your input.
Zandra Blake Youth Services LibrarianYpsilanti District Library229 W.
Michigan AvenueYpsilanti, MI 48197(734) 482-4110 ext. 1390
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From: "Amy Newcomb" <draekan58@hotmail.com>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: Stumper: Female Indiana Jones?
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 19:57:27 CDT
I'm trying to locate a series of books about a girl who traveled to exotic
locations and had adventures, ala Indiana Jones. She was 17 and traveled
with her butler, and her first name was Holly.
Anyone know this series?
Amy Newcomb
Please reply to draekan58@hotmail.com
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From: "Suanne Newsome" <newsomes@mail.newton.public.lib.ga.us>
To: <barbl@GRRL.LIB.MN.US>, <pubyac@prairienet.org>
Subject: PUBYAC- Monster origin
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 19:57:44 CDT
Hi Everyone! I have a patron who is asking an unusual question. He wants to
know the origin of "monsters under the bed", "monsters in the
closet". I
told him I didn't think it could be traced back to one source, that ancient
cultures made up stories to explain nature, etc. If anyone else can think of
something, please let me know.
Thanks in advance!
Suanne Newsome
Children's Department
Newton County Library
Covington, GA
newsomes@mail.newton.public.lib.ga.us
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From: Jeanette Larson <larsonlibrary@yahoo.com>
To: lm_net <lm_net@listserv.syr.edu>
Subject: Needed: A Few Good States
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 19:57:59 CDT
I am looking for volunteers from Alaska, Alabama,
Georgia, Idaho, and West Virginia to help with a book
I'm working on. If you are a librarian in any of these
states and might be interested, please email me at
larsonlibrary@yahoo.com (not to the list). I'll send
you the details so you can see if this sounds like
something you want to contribute to. 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: "Andrea Johnson" <ajohnson@cooklib.org>
To: <pubyac@prairienet.org>
Subject: RE: How to keep your composure.
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 19:58:14 CDT
Speaking of Kids Say the Darndest Things... Last week I did a fall =
storytime for my 3-5 year olds. Most of the kids in my group are 3's; in =
fact, about a quarter of the group are very young 3's. So I tend to do =
a lot of talking them through transitions in the program. We did a song =
on squirrels and a book on leaves and we were going to do another =
squirrel thing, so I was trying to bring them back to squirrels. I =
said, "Now who remembers -- who's our little friend who goes running =
around in the treetops?" And one little guy raised his hand really
high =
and yelled out, "JESUS!"
It was all I could do to keep from falling off my chair.
Andrea Johnson
ajohnson@cooklib.org
Cook Memorial Public Library
Libertyville, IL
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From: "ysstaff" <ysstaff@eauclaire.lib.wi.us>
To: <PUBYAC@prairienet.org>
Subject: My Side of the Mountain stumper
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 19:58:27 CDT
Thank you to all of you who responded to the stumper. As we also
figured out shortly after I sent out the e-mail, it is My Side of the
Mountain by Jean Craighead George. Our patron was thrilled!
Thanks again.
Alison Troy
Youth Services Assistant
*****************************************
Youth Services
L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library
Eau Claire, WI 54701
(715)839-5007 - voice
(715)833-5310 - fax
www.eauclaire.lib.wi.us
ysstaff@eauclaire.lib.wi.us
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From: Mary K Chelton <mchelton@mail.optonline.net>
To: yalsa-l@ala.org, pubyac@prairienet.org, publib@sunsite.berkeley.edu
Subject: study of public library YA websites
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 19:58:46 CDT
Hi Guys!
If you missed it, there's a research article worth pursuing titled,
"Public Library Websites for Young Adults: Meeting the Needs of
Today's Teens Online" by Sandra Hughes-Hassell and Erika Thickman
Miller in Library and Information Science Research 25 (2003):
143-156. In fact, as a result of reading it, I think YALSA should
consider establishing a Best Library YA Website Committee to continue
the evaluation work of the authors, especially regarding the
involvement of YAs in the design and maintenance of such sites, the
relevance of such sites for meeting developemental (vs. library)
needs, and imposed internal censorship constraints.
Mary K.
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Mary K. Chelton Ph. D.
Associate Professor
Graduate School of Library and Information Studies
254 Rosenthal Library
Queens College
65-30 Kissena Blvd.
Flushing, NY 11367
w (718) 997-3667 direct; 3790 office; 3797 fax
h (631) 286-4255
mchelton@optonline.net
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From: "Dawn Imada" <dawnimada@hotmail.com>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: PUBYAC: Teen Halloween party ideas and Teen Valentine's Day party
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 19:59:02 CDT
Hi Everyone,
Thank you to everyone who suggested ideas about teen Halloween and
Valentine's Day ideas. The responses came from librarians
subscribing to
PUBYAC, TAGAD-L, YA-YAAC and YALSA-L.
Here is a compilation:
A branch I worked at in Seattle had teens decorate the library for Halloween
every year, usually about 2 weeks before Halloween. We'd put up a flyer,
buy about $20 of fresh decorations to add to decorations from previous
years, buy some candy for them to snack on, and put some spooky sound
effects on the boom box, or play a tape of ghost stories. The
turnout was
usually small, 5-7 teens, but that was fine. They really liked the spider
webbing that comes in a fluff-ball, then you pull out little strands to
drape all over the place. We'd have little plastic spiders to stick in the
webs. Staff usually ended up taking it all down after Halloween, but it's
faster than putting it all up!
---
Dry Ice in Cider is a big hit here. The teens here had never seen it done
before and they loved it! It's also a great way to get them off the
caffeine for the evening:)
---
Hello:
I've had both, only I call it an Un-Valentine's Day Party since I want boys
to come.
For Halloween, I have a Little Coffee Shop of Horrors night for Teen Read
Week, then a Teen Advisory Board traditional party, then an all-community
teen Halloween event with a gym at the youth center and a DJ. I
made BINGO cards that spell GHOST, we make scary desserts (which they have
to eat), decorate pumpkins, etc.
For Un-Valenitne's, we make mean candy heart slogans, Mad Libs with a page
from a romance novel, decorate cookies of broken hearts, contests for worst
dating stories, serve everything on black plates, etc.
---
I did a Halloween party years ago. The kids were really excited about it,
and I remember it being a big deal for the staff at the library, too. We
played a live Clue game, because someone on this very list had suggested
it. I also remember that we had the party after hours. We had permission
slips from the parents, and we made it clear that we were locking
the
doors and no one would be allowed to leave early or arrive late. The party
lasted from 4-7 p.m. (We closed at 5:00 on Fridays.)
I also remember this being very expensive to do. I am not the kind who can
save up egg crates and make
decorations from them. Instead I purchased almost everything we needed--
decorations, prizes, and
incidentals. The party was fun and very successful, but I never did this
program again. I think it is too
much work for the amount of time I can devote to programming, and it put a
strain on staff relations,
too.
---
Our TAB Halloween party is a work party. We decorate the meeting room for
the children's parties that week. Afterwards we have snacks and if we
have
time, do an activity like a Mummy Wrap.
---
1. Candy Bingo--instead of the word BINGO, I made cards up with the word
CANDY across the top. They used candy corn as their markers and the
winner(s) received, of course, CANDY!
2. Mummy Contest--the teens paired up, and using toilet paper, wrapped each
other up like mummies. The kicker was, they only had 1 minute to get as
wrapped as possible. The best-looking mummy team won a grab bag of candy.
3. Costume contest--the teens voted for the three best costumes and I
awarded coupons to Blockbuster with a bag of popcorn and candy to each
winner.
4. Guess How Many?--I filled a huge jar with candy corn and the teen who's
guess was the closest won the whole jar.
---
We don't have a party, but we have a Pumpkin Carving Contest every October
for area teens. One of our local produce stands donates the pumpkins, the
kids can pick them up at the library to take home to carve. They all are
brought back a day or two before Halloween and the local radio station disc
jockeys judge them. It is tons of fun and we give out really silly and/or
great prizes...........depending on what we can get donated!!! Have fun!
__
p.s. I hope I'm not missing any. I was cutting and pasting
from old
emails.
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From: Suzanne Klein <SKlein@EBPL.org>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: programming for fathers?
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 19:59:18 CDT
Hi, everyone! Are you of you doing (or have any of you done) a program
with
the "Dads Read!" initiative? I'm interested in planning
something and would
love to know if anyone has done any great programs with it.
Here's more info about "Dads Read!"
http://www.walkeryoungreaders.com/2003/wbcontent/books/mount_olympus/dads_re
ad.html
<http://www.walkeryoungreaders.com/2003/wbcontent/books/mount_olympus/dads_r
ead.html>
Thanks!
-- Suzanne
Suzanne M. Klein
Youth Services Librarian
East Brunswick Public Library
2 Jean Walling Civic Center
East Brunswick NJ 08816
Phone: (732) 390 6789
Fax: (732) 390 6796
E-mail: sklein@ebpl.org
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From: "Natasha Forrester" <nforrester@wpl.org>
To: <pubyac@prairienet.org>
Subject: K-3rd Homeschool book club compilation
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 19:59:35 CDT
The following titles were suggested for the K-3 homeschool book club:
Parent resources:
The Read-Aloud Handbook by Jim Trelease
The Kids' Book Club: Lively Reading and Activities for Grades 1-3, by =
Desiree Webber and Sandy Shropshire, ISBN 1-56308-818-5
Books for book club:
Biographies by Diane Stanley
Fairy tales
Patricia Polacco's books
Junie B Jones by Barbara Park=20
Horrible Harry by Susie Kline
Cam Jansen or Fourth Floor Twins books by Adler
The Boxcar Children
Louis Sachar's Marvin Redpost books
Sarah, Plain and Tall
Cynthia Rylant's _Gooseberry Park_
Dick King-Smith
And a special thanks to Linda Schloegel for the following list of "great =
chapter book read-alouds":
Atwater, Richard - Mr. Popper's Penguins
Blume, Judy - Freckle Juice
Clifford, Eth - Help! I'm a Prisoner in the Library
Coville, Bruce - Skull of Truth
Dagleish, Alice - Courage of Sara Noble
Dahl, Roald - Wonderful story of Henry Sugar and Six More
Danziger, Paula - Amber Brown is Not a Crayon
Estes, Eleanor - The Hundred Dresses
Gannett, Ruth Stiles - Three Tales of My Father's Dragon
Grahame, Kenneth - Wind in the Willows
King-Smith, Dick - Harry's Mad
King-Smith, Dick - Jenius: The Amazing Guinea Pig
Kline, Suzy - Orp
Milne, A. A. -Winnie the Pooh
Mowat, Farley - Owls in the Family
Peterson, John - The Littles
Robinson, Barbara - Best School Year Ever
Sachar, Louis - Marvin Redpost: Class President
Smith, Doris Buchanan - Taste of Blackberries
Smith, Robert Kimmel - Chocolate Fever
Speare, Elizabeth George - Sign of the Beaver
Steig, William - Real Thief
Taylor, Mildred - Mississippi Bridge
Wallace, Bill - Ferret in the Bedroom, Lizards in the Fridge
Natasha Forrester, Children's Services Librarian
Winfield Public Library
605 College Winfield, KS 67156
(620) 221-4470
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From: susan sutton <susansutton_99@yahoo.com>
To: PUBYAC@prairienet.org
Subject: Compilation of Interactive Fairy & Folk Stories (Long)
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 19:59:55 CDT
Thanks so much to all who responded . . . lots of
great ideas!
I have shorten the Cinderella
story and used it. We have several masks
(prince, Cinderella, step mother
and fairy godmother)which the children
use to act out the story. I act
as narrator and stand to the side. We
have two props, a wand and a
chair. It takes about 8 mins to tell and
is quite cute. The end of the
story always creates a laugh: "The
Prince looked at Cinderella and
Cinderella looked at the Prince. Then
they gave each other a great big
(make sure to stretch this part for
added effect)hand shake." Some
children are such natural born actors.
We have also acted out the three
little pigs with masks and cardboard
houses.
missy
How about "The Mitten" by Jan Brett. Use a bedsheet
held up by
students for
the mitten. Each new "animal" (a
student) squeezes in until the last
animal
pops everyone out.
Connie
I have had good success with Erica Silverman's Don't
Fidget a Feather!
Good Luck and post the results
please!
Tammy Federspiel
Lakeview Community Library
Random Lake WI
I thought of another one I've used, Bill Harley's
SItting Down to Eat
with stuffed animals. You can
expand the story to include every child
if you want to!
Tammy from Random Lake
I like to do the old Jewish folktale "Too Much Noise"
You can have as
many
cows, chickens, sheep, dogs,
etc., as you need. Assign kids to a type
of
animal and they can participate.
I've actually adapted the story for
the
library and could send you the
script if you're interested.
I've also told the story Baby
Rattlesnake (Te Ata) and used film
containers
filled with beans and rice for
the kids to use as rattles.
Not Folk and Fairy Tales... But
still fun.
Caps for Sale by Slobodkin is
always a good choice. You can cut out
"hats"
from 1/2 sheets of felt for the
kids to wear in the 4 different colors
from
the story.
Another fun book is The Most
Wonderful Egg in the Word by Helme Heine.
I
have the kids help me "lay" eggs
by flapping their wings and making
terrible
chicken crows. Then I have egg
props that I've cut out from
posterboard
(and a box wrapped for the cube)
to reveal as the eggs the chicken
laid.
Hope these help!
Kate Hastings
Worthington Libraries
kborchers@worthingtonlibraries.org
how about bremen town musicians? Divide the audience
into fourths so all can make
noise. Give each attendee
a gold piece from the robber's
booty as a keepsake.
Gold pieces available at party
and dollar stores for
tiny bucks.
Molly
As a school librarian, I had great success with DON'T
FORGET THE BACON
by
Pat Hutchins and even more
success with SOAP, SOAP! DON'T FORGET THE
SOAP:
AN APPALACHIAN FOLK-TALE by Tom
Birdeye. The children loved the
repetitiveness and often joined
in after the first few pages.
Fae S. Griffith, Retired School
Librarian
Part Time Public Librarian
Have your co-worker look at books by Margaret Read
MacDonald, a
storyteller, long-time
children's librarian and folklorist who has over
30 titles published. Her picture
books are excellent for this type of
sharing, and her story
collections are written with participation in
mind. For more information about
her books, visit her website
http://www.margaretreadmacdonald.com/
I highly recommend these titles
by her for reading or telling with
audience participation:
Picture books:
Fat Cat
The Little Old Woman Who Lived
in a Vinegar Bottle
The Girl Who Wore Too Much
Mabela the Clever
Picking Peas
Slop! A Welsh Folk Tale
From Storytellers Start-Up Book:
Turtle of Koka
From When the Lights Go Out: 23
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark:
(Organized into six sections-Not
Too Scary, Scary in the Dark, Gross
Stuff, Jump Tales, Tales to Act
Out, and Tales to Draw or Stir Up)
Wizard Clip
Going on a Ghost Hunt
Susanna Holstein
Branch Services Manager
Kanawha County Public Library
123 Capitol St
Charleston WV 25301
304-343-4646
have used Fat Cat by Jack Kent. The book is now
out-of-print, but there ae still copies around.
Essentially what I do is have kids stand
behind me as the cat eats the
characters he meets. There is also a refrain for the
audience to say along with you. I also have done it
using
an orange balloon with a cat
face drawn on it in black marker, and keep blowing up
the balloon each time the cat eats someone. I like it
that
way even better!
Robin M. Benoit
Children's Librarian
Fairport Public Library
1 Village Landing
Fairport, NY 14450
585-223-3648 ext. 36
rbenoit@libraryweb.org
Susan: I've used "Possum come a-knockin'" with this
age group, and
line up
the chosen kids in the front,
giving each a motion or noise to
represent
the character. With hand
motions, I start and stop their participation
as
I read/tell the story. I also
knock on the table at the appropriate
time,
but you could have the rest of
the audience do that with stamping their
feet on signal. Be sure to have
a STOP signal well-rehearsed!
Another story is "Travelling
to Tondo", by Aardema. I divide the
audience into groups to
represent each animal and give them a motion
and
sound to practice. Then I
"conduct" the orchestra as I read/tell the
story.
More simple to organize is"
Anansi and the moss-covered rock". I
teach
them to slap their forheads and
shout " KA-BOOM" at a given signal.
These
works well for a wide range of
elementary ages, and they love it.
Hope you can post your answers
on PUBYAC. I'd be interested what
others
have chosen for interactive
telling.
MG
Mary Gilbert
Children's Services
St. Joseph County Public Library
South Bend, IN
Our PR person has adapted "Harold and the purple
crayon" for National Library Card Sign-up month. I've
doing "Feed me!" by William Hooks
this month interactively. Almost
any book with 2 or more characters can be made
interactive or into a puppet show or a felt board. I
think "My
friend Rabbit" would be fun to
do.
Gladys Seaman
Youth Services Librarian
South Georgia Regional Library
Valdosta, Ga.
gseaman@sgrl.org
Susan,
This isn't a folk or fairy tale,
but I've had great success with Bark,
George by Jules Fieffer. If you
don't know the story, a mother dog
tries
to get her pup to bark but first
he meows and oinks and you get the
idea. She takes him to the vet
and the vet pulls out each animal clear
up to a cow.
I am the mother dog
I have one child be the pup (and
I give them a list of the sounds to
make in order, even first
graders should be able to read oink, moo etc.
with some help)
I then select other kids and
have them hide behind something (usually
depends on what is available) I
give them each a mask or a sign to
designate which animal they are
to be.
I usually then ask a teacher to
be a vet. You have to have rubber
gloves
because that's an excellent
scene in the book when the vet pulls them
on.
I have the teacher/vet stand to
the front of all the children and when
it comes time for the vet to
pull out the animals, I take the pup to
the
vet and then the vet gently
grabs each child by the arm according to
the
sequence in the story. It has a
great surprise ending and the audience
can participate by saying "he
reached down and down and down".
I hope this makes some sense,
feel free to call if you want a better
explanation.
Traci
I really like using the story "Too Much Noise" by Ann
McGovern, and I
usually pair it with "Goodnight,
Owl" by Pat Hutchins. I've never tried
acting it out with the students,
but I certainly encourage them to make
the animal noises with me, and
they are happy to oblige.
Hope this helps,
Susan Harding
I like "The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of
Anything" by Linda
Williams. Great for October.
The kids in the audience act out all
the
motions and volunteer kids hold
each piece of clothing. At the end you
have
an assembled scarecrow on a
stick that you pull out. You can either
use
real clothes (and use a second
set of the same for the scarecrow) or
make
them from laminated construction
paper and assemble the scarecrow with
a
second set held together with
paper fasteners. A nice touch is to have
the
storyteller sitting in a rocking
chair.
Other good interactive stories
to pair with this are: Big Pumpkin by
Erica
Silverman (again act out with
volunteers, audience choruses out the
repeated
words), and One Dark Night by
Edna Mitchell Preston (ditto).
On a non-holiday note, I've had
very good luck with "The Three Billy
Goats
Gruff" (Folkmanis has a good set
of puppets for these as well). Fun to
pair
with Jan Brett's "The Trouble
with Trolls" and Patricia Rae Wolff's
"The
Toll-Bridge Troll."
Carol and Gary Levin
144 Smoke Rise Road
Bedminster NJ 07921
908 781 6041
Enjoy Life! This is not a Dress
Rehearsal!
Dear Susan,
One of my favorites is Too Much
Noise by Ann McGovern. The main
character
finds his house too noisy, so he
goes to the wise man, who tells him to
get a
variety of animals to fill his
house. Then he is told to get rid of
the animals
and is delighted with how quiet
his house is. I've done this mostly
with
ages 4-7 or so, and I find you
can adapt it to include as many
different animals
as you want (I sometimes throw
in a rhinoceros just to jazz things up).
The
children, of course, act as the
animals, making the noises. Often I
divide up
the group as it is sitting to be
the different animals; once I made
signs
("horse", "dog", etc.) and had
children come up and hold them, making
their noises
at the appropriate point in the
story. It's an easy one to tell and
adapt,
but it does get (surprise)
noisy. It helps if you have a hand signal
that
tells the kids when to be quiet
again so that you can continue the
story....
Hope this helps,
Robbin Price, once and future
children's librarian
One of the best interactive folk stories I know is
Mabela the Clever,
retold by Margaret Read
MacDonald. I've told it at elementary schools
(all grades) and have then seen
the students acting it out on the
playground later in the day.
The easy song/repeat is fun and you can have as
many mice as you'd like! The
bib info is: Mabela the Clever. Retold by
Margaret Read MacDonald.
Illustrated by Tim Coffey. Albert Whitman &
Co., 2001.
Linda L. Ernst
Newport Way Library
King County Library System
Bellevue, WA
y the little old lady who was not afraid of anything
by Linda Williams. I use old
clothes and let the
children make the clothes do the
action in the story.
It is great for fall and
halloween.
Pat Maust
YPL, Austintown, Ohio
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From: "Sandy" <hartsesa@oplin.org>
To: "PUBYAC" <PUBYAC@prairienet.org>
Subject: Downloading Music
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 20:58:49 CDT
Are you allowing patrons to download music from the Internet (sites =
like Kazaa) onto CDs or disks?
Do you have a policy for this? If so, would you please
email me a =
copy?
Thanks
Sandy Hartsel
hartsesa@oplin.org
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From: "Megan Vanderhart" <Vanderhart.Megan@rigov.org>
To: <pubyac@prairienet.org>
Subject: Mystery authors request
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 20:59:14 CDT
If anyone has suggestions for great mystery authors, or has kept a
compilation from a previous request, could they pass it on to me? We
need a range of recommendations for grades 1-6 to have on hand.
Thanks!
Megan
Megan E. VanderHart
Children's Literarian/Homeschool Resource Center
Rock Island Public Library
401 19th St.
Rock Island, IL 61201
(309)732-7304
vanderhart.megan@rigov.org
http://www.rbls.lib.il.us/rip/crhome.html
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From: "Natasha Forrester" <nforrester@wpl.org>
To: <pubyac@prairienet.org>
Subject: Scarves compilation
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 20:59:28 CDT
Thanks to all of you who responded with ideas for finding see-through
scarves to use with baby and toddler times. The responses fell into the
following categories:
1.) Look at Goodwill and local thrift stores, the dollar stores, or ask
staff to donate some.
2.) Make your own by cutting the streamers off windsocks or cutting up
netting, chiffon, tulle using pinking shears to avoid hemming them.
3.) Buy them online from IDEAS at http://www.aeideas.com/scarves.html
4.) Buy them online from Lakeshore Learning at www.lakeshorelearning.com
5.) Buy them online from Constructive Playthings at www.cptoys.com
6.) Use crepe paper instead.
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From: Lorie O'Donnell <Lodonnell@midyork.org>
To: "pubyac@prairienet.org" <pubyac@prairienet.org>
Subject: Stumper: Scarface
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 20:59:45 CDT
Hi everyone.
I have a patron searching for a book from his childhood. He read it when
he
was around 12, and he is now in his late 50's, so we're going back to the
mid-1950's or before.
He thinks the book is called "Scarface, the story of a grizzly" and
remembers it as a thick book. He is open to the idea that it may have been
a story in a collection. It is the story of a grizzly bear's survuval.
Any ideas? I have searched our library's catalog, amazon.com, and other
online sources to no avail.
Lorie
Lorie J. O'Donnell
Children's Librarian
Jervis Public Library
Rome, NY 13440
lodonnell@midyork.org
--
"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is
being run by smart people who are putting
us on or by imbeciles who really mean it."
-- Mark Twain--
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From: "Paula Anderson" <paulaan@lori.state.ri.us>
To: "PUBYAC" <PUBYAC@prairienet.org>
Subject: Stumper solved (polar bear and trolls)
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 21:00:08 CDT
Thanks to Peggy Hagen who knew it was The Cat on the Dovrefell: a
Christmas Tale illustrated by Tomie de Paola (1979). We never would have
found it without her and we even own a copy!
Thanks also to Samantha Tai who brought my attention to Jan Brett's more
recent Who's That Knocking on Christmas Eve?, a retelling of the same
folktale.
My patron was thrilled and is coming in today to look at both titles.
Here's my original request:
"A patron is looking for a picture book her husband read around 1985. A
boy and a polar bear go into the home of some trolls (or maybe elves)
and have to hide when they return. One of the trolls turns on the stove
and the polar bear jumps out of the oven where he was hiding. The bear
scares the trolls, but they all become friends in the end. Sound
familiar? The patron says the illustrations have a Sendak look to them.
I've already combed our catalog, A to Zoo, Children's Catalog with no
luck."
Paula Anderson
Warwick PL
Warwick RI
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From: "Maria Trinca" <mtrinca@ansernet.rcls.org>
To: PUBYAC: PUBlic librarians serving Young Adults and Children
Subject: Children's Book Stumper
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 21:00:28 CDT
Dear Colleagues,
I had a patron request for a book with the following patron description "a
book that had actual photo's of ponies (not drawn illustrations)
,in it was a song 'Pony boy, Pony boy,won't you be
my pony boy giddie up'...
Does this sound familiar? I have done some preliminary searching and have
not found the book.
Many thanks in advance for your help....
Please respond to : mtrinca@rcls.org
Maria Trinca
Head of Children's Services
Middletown Thrall Library
11-19 Depot St.
Middletown ,New York 10940
845.341.5470
Fax: 845.341.5494
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