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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: Saturday, December 27, 2003 11:01 PM
Subject: PUBYAC digest 1298
PUBYAC Digest 1298
Topics covered in this issue include:
1) STUMPER solved!
by Gwen Denney <gwen@vanderhage.net>
2) looking for pic books about holding students back a year
by Catherine Outten <ca_outten@yahoo.com>
3) Stumper: shrinking room, mixed-up house
by Maggie Bollar <bluedogbooks@yahoo.com>
4) "beanpole fairy"
by "Margaret Korenski" <MKORENSKI@vigo.lib.in.us>
5) Teen Summer Reading Responses--Long
by Christy Jones <xyjones3@yahoo.com>
6) cataloguing picture books
by Bonita Kale <Bonita.Kale@euclidlibrary.org>
7) sf and fantasy
by Bonita Kale <Bonita.Kale@euclidlibrary.org>
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From: Gwen Denney <gwen@vanderhage.net>
To: PUBYAC@prairienet.org
Subject: STUMPER solved!
Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 18:04:35 CST
Thanks to everyone who helped me with my stumper!
The most common response was "This Time of Darkness" by H.M. Hoover,
circa
1980.
Gwen Denney
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From: Catherine Outten <ca_outten@yahoo.com>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: looking for pic books about holding students back a year
Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 18:04:51 CST
In weeding the picture book collection, we just got rid of First Grade Can
Wait by Lorraine Aseltine, and I'm wondering if anyone knows of any other
picture books on this topic of holding children back a grade in school that
we could buy to replace it.
Thanks,
Cathy
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From: Maggie Bollar <bluedogbooks@yahoo.com>
To: PUBYAC@prairienet.org
Subject: Stumper: shrinking room, mixed-up house
Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 18:05:06 CST
Hello,
We are looking for a chapter book which features:
-a boy visiting a house, and it's not haunted, but just "mixed-up"
-1 room where everything's on the ceiling
-a shrinking room
-someone goes down a long black slide, and something's at the bottom, but
it's not scary
-the book is crazy and imaginative
This seems awfully familiar, like something I've read, maybe one of the
Danny Dunn books?
Help! :-) Please reply to bluedogbooks@yahoo.com.
Thanks so much,
Maggie Bollar
Children's Librarian
New Carlisle Public Library
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From: "Margaret Korenski" <MKORENSKI@vigo.lib.in.us>
To: <pubyac@prairienet.org>
Subject: "beanpole fairy"
Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 18:05:20 CST
Does anyone recognize this character?? A very thin, beanpole like fairy, =
all arms and legs, tiny wings and a magic wand. May be wearing striped =
socks.
This was a description of a character that is woven into a blanket someone =
received for the holidays and the person is wondering if this is a book =
character. We all seem to "see" the character described in our
mind's =
eye, but can't name it. Can anyone help?
mkorenski@vigo.lib.in.us
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From: Christy Jones <xyjones3@yahoo.com>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: Teen Summer Reading Responses--Long
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Hi All,
Here are the responses that I received from my query
concerning Teen Summer Reading Sign-ups and Logs (as
well as an e-mail I saved on the subject from a
previous thread). Many people sent e-mail
attachments, which I am not going to try to send over
PUBYAC. If you would like me to try and forward the
attachments please e-mail me off list at
xyjones3@yahoo.com. I don't know
how successful I
will be at forwarding them, but I will try!
Thanks to everyone for their help. I'm so nervous
about this Teen Summer Program, but PUBYAC's's advice
will help set me on the right path.
Christy
children's/YA Librarian
*We used this bingo sheet for our first YA summer
reading program last summer. It worked well. The
kids received a bag of prizes for getting bingo once,
then raffle tickets for every bingo thereafter.
Sorry I can't find a copy of our forms but they are
half sheets thatask for name, address, phone number
and date. We just put small icons inkeeping with the
reading club theme on the form that are equivalent to
15minute time frame that they only have to cross out
as they read.
Dear Christy, I'm not the YA librarian, but helped
with the program:We didn't have logs--what we used
were "entry slips". Each time a teen read a book,
they filled out an entry slip and put it in the
fishbowl. It was pretty basic: name, phone number,
title of the book, did you like it? Why or why not?
Every week we drew out of the fishbowl for prizes. So
the more you read, the better chance you had to win.
Everyone who signed up got a "starter kit", so they
all got something.
I attached the log that we used for our program last
year. Three
years ago we changed our program to the number of
books read to
number of points completed. This was done to
hopefully increase
number of teens participating,to encourage teens who
are not readers
to still be involved and because of teen input from
our Teen Advisory
Board. We just change or include different items each
year that
reflect the theme. Last summer it was laughter, so
they could earn
points by writing a joke. Also included a calender of
teen summer
programs. Hope this helps you out.
Hello,I'm sorry this is so late. A couple months ago
a sent out an email askingfor ideas to revamp our
summer reading program. I received a couple
emailsasking for a compilation of ideas. I hope that
this information is goingout in time to help
others.Here are the answers that I received:1. Our
teens read in 5 hour increments. They get one "packet"
at the first 5hours - this year it was a flat keychain
that lights up (bought by Friends),and some donated
coupons - 2 free doughnuts, free buffet from
Gattiland).For each 5 hours after that, they get prize
drawing slips. We do one drawingat the end for
whatever prizes have been donated. We're not talking
bigprizes, like a bicycle or anything, but dinner or
movie tickets, or giftcertificates to Barnes and Noble
or Hastings book stores. If we can get atheme park to
donate tickets, we usually put one in the drawing, but
that'sabout the biggest we usually have.We serve about
75000 population, and we had 222 teens who registered
and 146read at least 5 hours or more.2. Our program
(which, by the way, a committee planned) was planned
for 6weeks, and when we registered the teens, they
received 1 card for each week(6 cards). Each card
listed 4 activities, and the teen had to complete 2
ofthe 4 activities in order to redeem the incentive.
Each card gave a dateafter which the incentive would
be available. There were a variety ofactivities listed
on the 6 cards, including such things as:Read for 1
hourRead a bookRead a magazineRead a graphic
novelAttend a programCheck out a CD, video, or DVDFind
out the names of four of the library staffand many
more (I can't remember them all)Each card also had a
question on it, specifically related to our
librarysystem, that the teens had to answer in order
to redeem their incentive.The questions were:1. How
old is the San Antonio Public Library? (100 years)2.
Who was the President of the US when the first SAPL
library opened? (T.Roosevelt)3. What famous American
business man contributed money to build
libraries?(Carnegie)4. How many libraries are in the
SAPL system? (20)5. What is the name of the Branch
Library that you use? (any branch namewas acceptable)I
can't remember the other question. Anyway, you would
be amazed how manyteens could NOT figure out what the
year was 100 years ago, so that theycould find out who
was President then!!We did not tell them the answers,
but we did give them clues, and helpedthem find the
books or newspaper articles that contained the
answers.3. Our teen summer reading club uses number of
pages read. They throw a dieeach visit to give them
the number of pages (300, 400, or 500) If theyread
over the designated number of pages the difference is
carried over tothe next time. If they were to read
400 pages and read 850 pages theywould get two prizes
and carry over 50 pages to the next time. They seemto
like this and it does keep up their math skills over
the summer:)4.Our program this past summer ran May
31-July 21, and was open to readerswho had completed
7-12 grade. We kicked it off with a "Books and
Brunch"program on the 31 which included a book
sale/swap, followed by apresentation on cartooning.
We also had a huge submarine sandwich anddrinks and
desserts. We only had about 50 attend, and feel that
the timingwould have been better if we had waited for
it a couple of weeks into theprogram, as it was
advertised on the reading brochure itself. The
peoplewho attended seemed to like it.This year we had
two prize packs. Readers could claim prize #1
afterreading four books, and a second after another
four books. We arethinking of recording time instead
of books next year, as we did have afew kids reading
books that were NOT up to their reading ability.
Thisalso allows slower readers to be able to claim
prizes easier, and giveskids no reason to race through
a book to claim the prize. Each studentcould sign up
for the program only once, though they were encouraged
tocontinue reading throughout the summer.Our
end-of-the-program party was the Laughin' Cafe on July
26. Prize #2included 2 tickets to this program, so
participants could attend andbring a friend. We had
pizza and other refreshments, and a magic showput on
by a local college student. The kids loved this, and
so did theparents/siblings who came along for the
ride. We had door prizes at theend of the program, as
well as our 3 grand prizes: a color TV, a dvdplayer
and a Sony boombox. We also had participants fill out
aquestionnaire about their likes/ dislikes to help us
plan for next year.We also asked for kids who were
interested in becoming part of a youthadvisory panel
that we hope to form this year. Most of the
questionnairecomments were very positive. They would
like more prizes (of course),a repeat performance of
the magician and wanted the program to lastlonger! A
couple of kids also brought up the idea of keeping
track ofhours rather than books.
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From: Bonita Kale <Bonita.Kale@euclidlibrary.org>
To: mthomas@co.st-johns.fl.us,
pubyac <pubyac@prairienet.org>
Subject: cataloguing picture books
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Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 18:14:11 CST
We catalog fiction picture books for younger children as P, and file them by
author. Nonfiction is with the other nonfiction, all nicely deweyed.
Picture books for older kids go in J-EF, with the early chapter books.
Bonita
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From: Bonita Kale <Bonita.Kale@euclidlibrary.org>
To: "PUBYAC: PUBlic librarians serving Young Adults and Children"
<pubyac@prairienet.org>
Subject: sf and fantasy
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Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 18:14:28 CST
Wasn't there a saying once that if it had green on the
cover (trees, etc) it was fantasy and if didn't, it
was science fiction? :)
Yeah, I kinda wish that we could just keep sf and fantasy together.
They're
so often the same authors and appeal to the same readers. If you push a
button, it's sf; if you wave a wand, it's fantasy. The Diane Duane
children's fantasy books have worldgating and aliens and an intergalactic
terminal like an airport, but they also have talking rowan trees and magic
wands and spells. Someone mentioned Pern, which actually was hinting at
Terran origins from the first book, but a lot of people think a dragon makes
it fantasy. Darkover is sf with a definite fantasy "feel".
Lump 'em
together I say, and let the readers sort 'em out.
Bonita
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End of PUBYAC Digest 1298
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