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How Wordless Picture Books Empower Children | SLJ Day of Dialog 2014
Wordless picture book creators Bob Staake, Raul Colon, Aaron Becker, and Molly Idle. Wordless picture books allow children to project their own imaginations upon a story and “own it,” as...
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First Book Pledges to Buy Diverse Books | BEA 2014
First Book provides free books for kids in schools across the United States. Images are courtesy of First Book. On May 13, First Book, a nonprofit advocacy group committed to providing books to...
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Friends 4 Ever: Picks for Preschool Storytime │ JLG’s Booktalks to Go
Best friends are the people you can do anything and nothing with and still have the best time. Friends come in all shapes and sizes. Sometimes a friendship seem unlikely―because of different cultures...
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Picture Books that Make You Laugh Out Loud │ JLG’s Booktalks to Go
Tall tales have all the earmarks for great read alouds: outlandish illustrations, hard-to-believe deeds, and larger-than-life heroes. These stories, selected by the editors at Junior Library Guild, beg...
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Cool Correspondence | Great Books About Writing Letters
Bustling with family vacations, camp visits, and other fun activities to chronicle, summer is the perfect time to pen letters and postcards. Ranging from quietly realistic to humorously high blown,...
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Books About Friendship: The Good, Bad, and the Ugly │ JLG’s Booktalks to Go
Friends who are mean, change, and moving are probably not anyone’s favorite subjects. But when these themes are found in stories, they make for great picks for storytime—providing drama and growth for...
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‘Druthers’ Meets ‘Leroy Ninker’ at Candlewick| Fall 2014 Preview
At the Candlewick Fall Preview. Photo by Rocco Staino. Librarians have to wonder what’s in store for them when they arrive at a publisher’s preview and encounter editors wearing devil’s horns. That’s...
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Field Trip to the Animal Kingdom | Great Books About Zoos
A favorite summertime day-trip or school-year destination, a visit to the zoo means a good time for kids. Supplement your tried-and-true titles with a selection of newer books that feature zoo...
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Children’s Book About Gun-Toting Parents Gets A Public Beat Down by Stephen...
Comedy Central talk show host Stephen Colbert aired a segment on his show August 5, 2014 making fun of the children’s picture book “My Parents Open Carry.” Comedy Central talk show host Stephen...
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A New Approach to Sharks: Author Katherine Roy’s Work in the Field
Katherine Roy aboard the Derek M. Baylis, Mirounga Bay, Southeast Farallon Island.Photo by Patrick Conroy Doing intensive research in preparation for a work of nonfiction is par for the course these...
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A New Picture Book Biography About a Transgender Girl | Up Close
Jazz Jennings, a 14-year-old transgender teen, and Jessica Herthel, the director of the Stonewall National Education Project, are the coauthors of the new picture book, I Am Jazz (Dial, 2014.)...
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A Picture Paints 1,000 Words: Books About the Power of Art │ JLG’s Booktalks...
Children often learn to draw, paint, and create by copying the works of others. Supplying them with stories about successful artists who overcame obstacles to do what they love most can inspire...
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What’s the Story?: Words Make the Tale | JLG’s Booktalks to Go
Storytellers are weavers of words. Their choice of what to say and how to say it binds listeners in a mesmerizing spell of letters. Sometimes, pictures are also part of the enchantment. The following...
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Making a Grand Entrance: Debut Picture Book Authors │ JLG’s Booktalks to Go
Where do new picture book authors come from? The answers vary. Lynne Cox is an award-winner swimmer and author of several books for adults. Katy Beebe teaches history at the University of Texas at...
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A Banker, a Painter, and a Music Maker: Inspirational Picture Book...
Why do painters paint what they do? Why do singers sing what they sing? What makes a man hit a ball in more than 50 straight games? Digging into someone’s past allows readers to connect to their...
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Teaching STEAM with Lois Ehlert: Preschool isn’t too early to introduce STEM...
Looking over 20 years’ worth of storytime plans that I have created for my toddler and preschool programs, I notice that one author’s name appears quite regularly: Lois Ehlert. Her titles are instantly...
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Ivan, Clara, and the Freedom Tree: History in Picture Books │ JLG’s Booktalks...
Held close to the hearts of Tacoma and Atlanta residents, Ivan, the shopping mall gorilla, is now known across the country. Clara Barton is synonymous with the American Red Cross. Ben Franklin and kite...
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New Storytime Treasures: Future Classics Today │ JLG’s Booktalks to Go
Looking for new titles to replace storytime favorites such as Paddington Bear and Harold and the Purple Crayon? Today’s read-aloud treasures feature boys who dig a hole, a mouse who enlightens his...
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Frosty Days and Warm Hearts | Great Books to Celebrate Winter
Update winter storytimes and displays with this selection of recently published seasonal picture books. Blizzard. by John Rocco. illus. by author. Disney-Hyperion. 2014. Tr $17.99. ISBN 9781423178651....
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Show But Don’t Tell: Must-Have Wordless Picture Books │ JLG’s Booktalks to Go
For many, a highlight of grammar school was show and tell; kids spent the whole week deciding what to bring. Picture books let an illustrator show and tell as well. When the illustrations deliver a...
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