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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"
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Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 11:01 PM
Subject: PUBYAC digest 1289
Topics covered in this issue include: 1) Horse In Striped Pajamas by "Joan Enriquez (ocln)" <joane@ocln.org> 2) Stumper by "Ebrie, Tesfaye, JCL" <EbrieT@jocolibrary.org> 3) White painter's hats by "Roseanne Skelly" <rskelly@mcls.rochester.lib.ny.us> 4) Teen SRP involvement by "Wendy Morano" <WMORANO@cml.lib.oh.us> 5) re: Brundibar & Mock Caldecott by "Susan Dailey" <obldailey@wellscolibrary.org> 6) Stumper: Old children's Song by Domenica Simpson <dsimpson@mail.pratt.lib.md.us> 7) RE: YA Fiction - friendships between girls by Jennie Stoltz <jstoltz@esls.lib.wi.us> 8) Librarian Calendar by "Mary Cage" <gmcage@yahoo.com> 9) Stumper-memory by "Maren Wilbur" <mwilbur@carverlib.org> 10) books by/about Native Americans by Eric Norton <enorton@scls.lib.wi.us> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Joan Enriquez (ocln)" <joane@ocln.org> To: "'pubyac@prairienet.org'" <pubyac@prairienet.org> Subject: Horse In Striped Pajamas Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 21:34:01 CST Does anyone have the lyrics to The Horse in Striped Pajamas? I remember it being sung on Captain Kangaroo's show. Please reply directly to me. Thanks. Joan Enriquez Kingston Public Library Kingston, MA 02364 joane@ocln.org ------------------------------ From: "Ebrie, Tesfaye, JCL" <EbrieT@jocolibrary.org> To: <PUBYAC@prairienet.org> Subject: Stumper Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 21:34:28 CST A patron and my branch manager both remember reading this book in the 60s. It is about the eskimo (Inuit?) custom of the elderly going off by themselves to die so that they are not a burden to their family. In this particular story, it is a grandmother who is getting ready to face this. It had pictures and a lot of text. Does it ring a bell to anyone?=20 Thanks for your help,=20 Chris Koppenhaver=20 Johnson County Library=20 Kansas City Metro Area ------------------------------ From: "Roseanne Skelly" <rskelly@mcls.rochester.lib.ny.us> To: <pubyac@prairienet.org> Subject: White painter's hats Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 21:34:49 CST Does anyone know where I could purchase inexpensive white painter's caps = (I need about 500)? We will be decorating them with fabric crayons. =20 Please respond to me directly if you have any suggestions. Roseanne Skelly Children's Librarian Greece Public Library 2 Vince Tofany Blvd. Rochester, NY 14616 rskelly@libraryweb.org (585) 723-2488 (585) 225-8951 ------------------------------ From: "Wendy Morano" <WMORANO@cml.lib.oh.us> To: <PUBYAC@prairienet.org> Subject: Teen SRP involvement Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 21:35:10 CST I need examples of teens designing in their own summer reading programs and teen SRP with lots of teen involvement. I am desparately trying to get some movement on a proposal to have teens create the teen SRP artwork this summer. I'm thinking success stories from you all would be the extra punch needed. What kind of teen involvement do you have during SRP? I'll take numbers, but also tell me who's life this experience changed/effected/improved? Has teen involvement made your teen SRP more successful/popular? Thanks in advance. I can always count on all of you. Wendy Morano Hilltop Library, Youth Services Librarian Columbus Metropolitan Library 614-645-2430 wmorano@cml.lib.oh.us ------------------------------ From: "Susan Dailey" <obldailey@wellscolibrary.org> To: "PUBYAC" <pubyac@prairienet.org> Subject: re: Brundibar & Mock Caldecott MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 21:35:30 CST Thank you to Margaret Henning, Genevieve Gallagher, Adrienne Furness, Lisa Cole, Josh Lachman, Donna MacKinney, Mary Gilbert, Judy Looby, Natasha Forrester, Steven Engelfried and Becky Amstutz for their input about adding "Brundibar" to our Mock Caldecott Consideration list. The feeling was pretty well unanimous that the book should be on it. Fortunately, I realized that one library that is attending our workshop already owns the book so they will bring it. (It saves me from placing yet another book order before the end of the year!) We just received a shipment of almost 40 books and, I'm glad to say, that I saw many wonderfully illustrated books in it. We usually have about 100 titles on our consideration list. Before this shipment, we only had about 35 on our "definite" list. (I had several maybes, but...) Between this shipment and several books that came from technical services last week, our list has grown to over 70 books. You'll can see the updated list at www.wellscolibrary.org/caldecottlist.html. I'd love to know what others think of the new version of "The Story of Little Black Sambo," illustrated by Christopher Bing. I think it is a wonderfully illustrated and conceived book. I'm not sure if it's my pick for the Caldecott because there are several books that I haven't been able to study in depth. I have yet to see Mordicai Gerstein's "The Man Who Walked Between the Towers," about which I've heard wonderful things. Has anyone seen this one? I have yet one more request--if you've attended a Mock Caldecott Workshop this year, will you please post the results to the list (or email them directly to me)? I compile other winners and pass them out at the end of our workshop. (I try not to influence our voting--well, at least, not too much!) Thanks again, Susan Dailey, librarian, speaker and author of "A Storytime Year" www.susanmdailey.com Ossian Branch Library Ossian, IN obldailey@wellscolibrary.org ------------------------------ From: Domenica Simpson <dsimpson@mail.pratt.lib.md.us> To: "'pubyac@prairienet.org'" <pubyac@prairienet.org> Subject: Stumper: Old children's Song Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 21:35:51 CST Hi We have a patron searching for the lyrics to a children's song they remember from childhood. The words the patron is able to recall are "Little one, lean one, long one, lickpot, thumbo, little hands so busy while they play." She believes the singer was a male. She has already tried searching the web and KIDiddles. Any help would be great! Thanks, Domenica Simpson Children's Department ------------------------------ From: Jennie Stoltz <jstoltz@esls.lib.wi.us> To: "PUBYAC: PUBlic librarians serving Young Adults and Children" <pubyac@prairienet.org> Subject: RE: YA Fiction - friendships between girls MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 21:36:14 CST Hello all, I have a patron who comes in very regularly and asks for the same thing - YA fiction books about friendships between girls. She specifically does not want books which are in diary format and she DOESN'T like it if the books have a lot of romance in them. Do any of you have any suggestions? I've recommended about everything I can think of and none of the books seem to be what she wants. She's read Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and liked that but her ideal is Snail Mail No More by Danziger. TIA, Jennie Jennie J. Stoltz Children's Services Coordinator F. L. Weyenberg Library Mequon/Thiensville www.flwlib.org "A room without books is like a body without a soul." ~ Cicero ------------------------------ From: "Mary Cage" <gmcage@yahoo.com> To: <pubyac@prairienet.org> Subject: Librarian Calendar MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 21:36:30 CST While we're on the subject of librarians' image... here's an interesting article I came across today. LIBRARIANS strip off their dust jackets for charity calendar Telegraph.co.uk, UK Following in the footsteps of the Women's Institute Calendar Girls, librarians from the London borough of Camden have challenged the prim and proper stereotype ... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/12/14/ncalen14.xml &sSheet=/news/2003/12/14/ixhome.html Mary Cage MLIS (as of three days ago!!) ------------------------------ From: "Maren Wilbur" <mwilbur@carverlib.org> To: <pubyac@prairienet.org> Subject: Stumper-memory content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 21:36:47 CST I'm hoping the list can help with some ideas for this patron request. A father is looking for books to help his 9 year old son to help with improving his memory. The request actually came from another librarian who dealt with the patron so I'm cutting and pasting the original request: =20 "Would you know any titles - or have any ideas - on titles that would help a 9 year old boy improve his memory? I had a concerned father in here Saturday, trying to find guides or exercises or games that he could use to help his 9 year old with memory issues. I've been digging around in the catalog, and Amazon--and I'm striking out. =20 =20 There are a lot of references to 'mnemonics' for adults, but I can't find anything specifically for kids." =20 =20 How about it? Any ideas from the collective list? My thoughts so far are to use brain teaser puzzle type books, but that really doesn't quite hit the mark. =20 Thank you, Maren Wilbur Youth Service Librarian Carver County Library System Chanhassen, MN mwilbur@carverlib.org ------------------------------ From: Eric Norton <enorton@scls.lib.wi.us> To: PUBYAC@prairienet.org Subject: books by/about Native Americans Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 21:37:06 CST I finally managed to open my November SLJ this past weekend and read with interest the "Up for Discussion" column by Nina Lindsay. This month's column was entitled "'I' Still Isn't for Indian: A look at recent publishing about Native Americans". She found (big surprise) that there still aren't a lot of books on Native Americans that deal fairly and accurately with Native peoples as living cultures and people. Wisconsin has a noticeable Native population and so I am always on the look out for relevant titles. I agree that it is difficult to find material that acknowledges that Native Americans are anything but part of America's history (or part of 20th century American history--try to find anything on Leonard Peltier or the American Indian Movement). A few books that Ms. Lindsay did not mention but that I was happy to find include Children of Native America Today by Yvonne Wakim Dennis, published by Charlesbridge and Meet Naiche: A Native Boy from the Chesapeake Bay Area by Gabrielle Tayac published by the National Museum of the American Indian/Smithsonian Institution. The second book is the first of a series called My World: Young Native America Today. Ms. Lindsay suggests that librarians need to educate themselves, look for alternative review sources and talk to Natives in your community in order to better be able to select appropriate materials. I think that there a fewother important things that librarians can do as a group. We are all visited by sales reps from various publishers and distributors on a regular basis. Many of us stop by publisher booths at the various conferences we attend. Some of us write for review journals or have the ears of staff at publishing houses. Take some time to tell all of these folks that we'd like to see more material that highlights and celebrates the lives of Native Americans today. Be specific--mention nations in your area that you'd like covered, Native's whose biographies you'd like on your shelves. Every time I sit down with a sales rep, they open up their catalog and tell me, "Now this new series on fungi (replace with your favorite) was something that we had a lot request for." These people listen to our requests, so make them count. We can also talk to our local schools. Much of the demand in my library for books on Native Americans comes from kids doing school work. They need a book on a certain nation (maybe they don't even particularly care which one) for a report. We keep buying these series books that cover various nations because we know that they kids will be in for them. These days, they have the good grace to conclude with a chapter on life today among the fill-in-the-blank but couldn't publishers, librarians and teachers do better by students and Native Americans? Couldn't students use a book called The Ho-Chunk Nation Today if one existed? Why not? Make sure that the teachers (and for all of you who are also parents, make the request on behalf of your kids as well) know that kids ought to be learning not only the history but the current reality of Native America. Eric Norton Head of Children's Services McMillan Memorial Library Wisconsin Rapids WI 54494 715-422-5130 enorton@scls.lib.wi.us "Very senior librarians...once they have proved themselves worthy by performing some valiant act of librarianship, are accepted into a secret order and are taught the raw arts of survival beyond the Shelves We Know." Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards! ------------------------------ End of PUBYAC Digest 1289 *************************
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