Library League - Parents, Teachers & Caregivers

The Library League Newsletter
For Parents, Teachers and Caregivers

Welcome to the Library League Newsletter for Parents, Teachers and Caregivers. Our goals are to introduce you to books and other materials for use at home or in the classroom as well as give you titles to recommend to the most reluctant of readers. Please remember that not all books are meant for all ages or audiences so please review books you wish to use for their appropriateness.

New for the Holidays
Check out some of our new titles just in time for celebrating the season!

The Three Snow Bears by Jan Brett
N is for Navidad by Susan Middleton Elya and Merry Banks
Hanukkah Moon by Deborah Da Costa
Great Joy by Kate Dicamillo
Best Hanukkah Ever by Barbara Diamond Goldin
Toot and Puddle Let it Snow by Holly Hobbie
Little Rabbit’s Christmas by Harry Horse
The Nutcracker by Susan Jeffers
Angela and the Baby Jesus by Frank McCourt
The All I’ll Ever Want Christmas Doll by Patricia McKissack
The Longest Christmas List Ever by Gregg Spiradellis
The Santa Secret by Carol Wallace
Miss Wire’s Christmas Surprise by Ian Whybrow

New Books for Tried & True Themes

Having trouble getting enthusiastic about that farm animal or apple unit? Each month we will list new titles to pique your little ones’ curiosity.

Onomatopoeic
Chicky Chicky Chook Chook by Cathy Maclennan

Fractured Fairytales
Previously by Allan Ahlberg
Ivan the Terrier by Peter Catalanotto

Opposites
Maisy Big Maisy Small by Lucy Cousins

Forest Animals
Whooo’s There? by Mary Serfazo

Emotions
These are two exceptional books about children dealing with their feelings.

Divorce
Fred Stays With Me
By Nancy Coffelt

Stress & Anxiety
Silly Billy
By Anthony Browne

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Introducing…to Children

In the past year we have listed many books to help in introducing children to various subjects. Here are some new titles available on those same subjects.

Manners
Mind Your Manners B.B. Wolf by Judy Sierra
Math & Science
On Meadowview Street by Henry Cole
Birdsongs by Nancy Franco
A Closer Look by Mary McCarthy
School
Wow! School! by Robert Neubecker

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Linking Students with Great Books

Book Links, a bimonthly publication of the American Library Association, is a great resource for teachers, home school parents and others working with pre-school through high school students. Articles are short and user-friendly with subjects oriented to classroom subjects. Editors select topics that appeal to children. Many of these will also apply to church and scout projects.

Editors explore all aspects of the curriculum from history to science, authors and holidays. Each article has an annotated list of books with the goal to help teachers bring great books into the classroom. Each issue features a comprehensive bibliography of all the books featured in that month’s issue, plus a help page to connect the content with school standards.

The paper edition of Book Links is available at Central Library Children’s Department, and Martin and Hardesty Regional Library Adult Periodicals departments. It is also available through the library’s online catalog. The November 2007 offers these articles:
New books for the classroom;
Helping students hone their skills in reading novels;
Two different articles about postwar compassion and hope;
Interview with three authors;
Art composition in picture books;
Portraying disability in children’s books;
Issues of social class in children’s books;
“Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Books About the Postal System;
Books written in letter format (epistolary novels).
Spy novels.
All in one issue!
The January issue will feature best books of 2007, new mysteries and the civil rights movement.

To explore an issue, go to the library catalog and type Book Links for the title.

The search result gives you two links.
One takes you to the online sources for Book Links.
You may search various years from there.
If you need a particular topic, try the searchable index of past articles at www.ala.org/BookLinks

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Betty Birney’s much loved Humphrey
is the subject of the Penguin Group’s drawing contest.

http://us.penguingroup.com/static/html/enter/humphreycontest.html?cmpid=NLC-teachlib1107&attr=humphrey