Celebrate Children's Book Week

Children's Book Week May 11-17, 2009

A Week to celebrate children and books. It all began in 1913 when Franklin Matthiews, librarian for the Boys Scouts of America, began touring the country in search of higher standards of children's books. We have since reached that goal and now celebrate a week of remembering great books for kids and promoting literacy as a nation.

My new favorite book that I want to share with you is Zorgamazoo by Robert Paul Weston. If you love Dr. Seuss and Lemony Snicket you are in for a real treat!

Children's Lit. site

Check this site: http://www.carolhurst.com/toc.html

Some guides to children's literature: Carol Hurt's Children's Literature site; Children's Book Council; Cooperative Children's Book Center. If interested, check it out. Thanks

Children's multicultural literature are literature that represents any district cultural group. It presents a multitude perspectives about the lives culture and contributions of each cultural group to American society. The quality of each book nor the appropriateness in terms of cultural content is left to the adult to determine each book's appropriatyteness/relevance to the children.
Check on this site: http://literature.pppst.com/folk-literature.html

MondayWiggly Giggles

I've got the wiggly-wiggles today,
And I just can't sit still.
My teacher says she'll have to find
A stop-me-wiggle pill.

I've got the giggly-giggles today;
I couldn't tell you why.
But if Mary hiccups one more time
I'll giggle till I cry.

I've got to stamp my wiggles out
And hold my giggles in,
Cause wiggling makes me giggle
And gigglers never win.

-Stacy Jo Crossen and Natalie Anne Covell
Copyright Info:
Text © 1983 The Random House Book of Poetry for Children selected by Jack Prelutsky; illustrated by Arnold Lobel, published by Random House Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Random House Children's Books.

WOW what a group!

Thank you so much for the posted pictures, Eveleen!

We are amazing!

Props for Reading

Here is a short article that reminded how much i loved when my aunt would tell her Felt stories. She would have cut outs the story characters, or relevant ojects, and would have active illustration and would tell a story.

I think I enjoyed them more than listening to someone just read a book. Not that I don't love that too, but it's important to keep oral tradition alive. Good stories shouldn't have to be written down.

It also ups the interactive portion of storytelling. Props are awesome. I also enjoy having children act out the story you're reading, again active engagement with the words.

Kids are so cute!

Hey Gang,
The Book of the Week is Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Supporting Parents & Caregivers to Enhance Early Learning Webcast



I found this webcast on the importance of providing support to Parents and caregivers of young children and the role libraries play in this vital role in pre literacy skill.



Early Learning

What a fun Resource

Judy Freeman is a professional storyteller, speaker, writer, everything type of person.

I was searching for relevant information to post here and I came across a book titled, Books Kid Will Sit Still For.

A quote fron her site says it is:
"It features a massive, annotated bibliography of 1,705 of her favorite read-aloud titles, all published within the last decade, that will keep children in grades PreK through 6 enthralled. These titles encompass picture books, fiction, folklore, poetry, biography, and nonfiction. Each of the 1,705 entries provides full bibliographic information and a meaty descriptive annotation so you can be reminded of what the book's about if you've read it, or be enticed to pick it up if you haven't."

There are three of them she's published so far.

I would love to have her job, she travels all over facilitating workshops.

And as they cut our budget more....

Thought this would re-inforce how important children libraries are for the community, on so many levels...

Found on www.failblog.org

Article RE: Our Display

Great Book, Bad Movie: How Hollywood Ruins Novels
I sent you all an e-mail with a link to this. How apropos that I should see this first thing when I opened the internet this day!
How you think it's interesting, too.

Contact info

Fellow Jaggers!
To find e-mail address for each other:
It's under Settings -> Permissions (on the far left of links)
For Josephine, use the address under the Invited Portion and not the one authoring.

Finally in

Hi, I'm finally in. I'm excited to work with our blog.

Development of a Children's Library

This was was an interesting source. I was particularily impressed by it as a comprehensive overview for people who are curious but don't know much about the the basics of a children's library.
The introduction is as follows:
"Library services for children have never been as important for children and their families all over the world, as they are today. Access to the knowledge and the multicultural riches of the world, as well as lifelong learning and literacy skills have become the priority of our society. A quality children’s library equips children with lifelong learning and literacy skills, enabling them to participate and contribute to the community. It should constantly respond to the increasing changes in the society and meet the information, cultural and entertainment needs of all children. Every child should be familiar and comfortable with the local library and possess the skills to find their way around libraries in general."

Children and Graphic Novels

From personal experience, I've learned that one can never be too careful when it comes to Comics. In particular the Japanese cartoons, those can be rather deceiving. The rating are not what we Americans would ordinarily be expecting.

It is typical for there to be rather buxom women in even the most 'innocent' of volumes. One should always double check before allowing their child to just jump right on in. Take Sailor Moon, it is appropriate for a child to read in the earlier volumes but by the final one, there is the insinuation that Serena and Darien slept together.

Some can say that insinuations aren't that horrible, but that is how younger kids become immune to it or even curious. I was reading rated OT manga (comics) when I was a freshman, unknowingly there was bare breasted women in one series. There was nothing sexual about it, the woman in specific was a goddess and so from an artistic point of view that is appreciated or even understandable.

Issue is, that the OT rated manga is with the K rated ones. What is to stop a 12 -year-old boy from grabbing an Older Teen issue, and his parents obliviously checking it out for him. I think that one should simply be more attentive when it comes to the Japanese Comics. I'm not saying don't let them read it, god forbid, no. Just be a little more careful with what they're allowed to read. The last thing a parent needs is their little boy reading comics with half-nude women.

Great job on the poll Aisa! Thank you Gaby for updating the picture for our Blog.
Greg. great idea on Children's services for our topic....and Jo were waiting for you!

Assignment: Brag About Your Contribution

I posted a poll. You are required to answer and they might be anonymous... they might not.

I went to layout, selected add gadget, and created a fair, balanced question pertaining to the purpose of the blog.

Thank you for enjoying.

Greetings fellow J.A.G.G.E. team.

If you have not done so, please accept the invitation that Aisa has sent you for our blog. I want to let you know too that you do not have to login in to Aisa's Google account to access the blog. Once you accept the invite you can then login by accessing the blog at www.blogger.com

Enter your email address and your password, you can then read and add to JAGGE.

I hope this information helps.

Eveleen