CCBC Choices Presentations on April 18

The CCBC (Children's Collaborative Book Center) Choices 2012 publication will be available and sent to you soon! 

The popular presentation will take place on Wednesday, April 18, at the Kress Family Library in De Pere.

Librarians at the CCBC will talk about birth-grade 12 books from the Choices 2012 publication in the morning.  The afternoon session will consist of a discussion on book selection and evaluation. 

Here are more specifics for the day:

9-9:30 am: Book browsing

9:30-11:45: Choices presentation, Books Birth- Grade 12

11:45-1: Break/Browsing

1-2:30 pm: Discussion

2:30-3 Browsing

Register here!

New Die Cuts!

NFLS recently purchased four new dies from AccuCut that will fit perfectly with the Dream Big-Read! Summer Theme.

A moon, clouds, READ bookmark and bed are now available to check out and part of the "Miscellaneous/Dream" set.

Die sets can be checked out using the form on the NFLS website.
First, check out the scheduling calendar for the dies, and then place your order!
It's easy!

Summer Workshop

Over 40 librarians from the area and Upper Michigan participated in the annual Summer Reading Program Planning Workshop on February 16.  This year's workshop was held at the Green Bay Botanical Garden.

Editor of the CSLP manual, Patti Sinclair, shared lots of manual ideas in the morning.  After lunch, librarians gathered in groups and Cindy Tuschy from Gillett provided even more cool ideas for summer. The day ended with this year's entertainer, "Miller & Mike," presenting a sampling of their summer program.  It was a fun and eventful day!

To view photos of the day, check out the album on the NFLS Facebook fan page.

Book Reviews

The Story of Us
By Jay Asher, Carolyn Mackler
What would you change if you knew what would happen in your future?  That's the question Emma and Josh have to face when Emma loads AOL onto her computer for the first time and finds an amazing site called Facebook - a site that won't be invented for another 15 years and shows what their lives will be like at age 31. Josh's future looks like he has it all, but Emma's future self isn't happy.  The foreknowledge shapes their choices and their relationship with each other.  This book really made me think about my own life choices.  Very cool premise.



Back of the Bus
by Aaron Reynolds
A re-telling of the Rosa Parks story from the eyes of a small boy who doesn't understand what is going on but knows that it is something big.  The boy plays with a simple marble on the bus - a "brown tiger's eye" that "hunkers...down deep into [his] pocket.'' The illustrations are soft and luminous.  I love how the author describes the eyes of the boy's mother, saying, "She's got them worked-all-day eyes, but she's got her strong chin on."  Later, he describes the eyes of Rosa Parks as "all fierce like a lightnin' storm...her voice is all soft, but she's got on her strong chin too, just like Mama's." Lovely and lyrical.

- Karla Giraldéz

Mixing in Math 2012

TERC, a not-for-profit education research and development organization dedicated to

improving mathematics, science, and technology teaching and learning, based in Cambridge, MA has created some activities that support our summer program themes for 2012.

TERC is also hosting two free webinars on Monday, March 19th from 11:30-12:30 EST (10:30-11:30 here in Wisconsin) and Monday, March 26 11:30-12:30 EST to explore ways to combine summer reading crafts, stories, and family events with everyday life math, using Mixing in Math 2012.

To register for the March 19th webinar, go to http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/VN36VWD.

To register for the March 26th webinar, go to http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/VF7TXL6.

-Rhonda Puntney, CEO

ALSC/YALSA Video Contest

March comes in like a lion, so get your pride on by entering the first ever ALSC/YALSA video contest.  Show us what tweens/young teens + technology looks like at YOUR library and you might win a $100 Amazon gift card. This contest is part of the first ever ALSC and YALSA Joint Presidents’ Program to be held at ALA Anaheim.

The program will focus on tweens and young teens and exploring their use of technology. What is the life of a tween or young teen like in this digital age? What are the particular challenges and opportunities they face online? What should libraries be doing?  Library futurist Stephen Abram and renowned researcher Michelle Poris will be the featured speakers at this special event. http://www.ala.org/alsc/confevents/alscannual/presprog

Selected videos will be shown at the ALSC and YALSA Joint Presidents’ Program to provide frontline reporting on the digital lives of tweens and young teens.   All video entrants will be eligible to win a $100 Amazon gift card.  

• Videos should be 2-3 minutes in length and created for a librarian audience.  
• Videos should showcase programming, interviews, insights, etc. relating to tweens, young teens, technology, and libraries.  (Note--you are responsible for securing appropriate consent for public distribution of your video).
• Post it on YouTube with the tag “youthprezprogram12”.
• Email co-chairs Tessa Michaelson Schmidt and Sarah Couri at tweenlibraryvideos@gmail.com with the YouTube link and your contact information.
• Deadline for submissions: Monday, April 30, 2012 at midnight.
• Questions?  Contact the Joint Presidents’ Program co-chairs at tweenlibraryvideos@gmail.com

Tessa Michaelson Schmidt

Youth and Special Services Consultant

Wisconsin DPI, Public Library Development

Read On Wisconsin: March!

Here are the Read On Wisconsin titles for March.  And be sure to check out the Read On Wisconsin web site:

http://readon.education.wisc.edu/


March ROW Book Selections:

Babies, Toddlers and Preschoolers: 

Little White Rabbit by Kevin Henkes. Greenwillow / HarperCollins, 2011

Primary (Grades K-2):

My Name is Sangoel by Karen Lynn Williams and Khadra Mohammed ; illustrated by Catherine Stock. Eerdman’s, 2009
Goal! by Mina Javaherbin. Illustrated by A. G. Ford. Candlewick Press, 2010

Intermediate (Grades 3-5):

Star in the Forest by Laura Resau. Delacorte, 2010

Middle School:

The Day of the Pelican by Katherine Paterson. Clarion, 2009

High School:

The Last Summer of the Death Warriors by Francisco X. Stork. Arthur A. Levine Books / Scholastic, 2010

- Megan Schleisman, CCBC