Shortlisted titles reviewed here - Reading Time You are at:Home»News»Shortlisted titles reviewed here By Admin on · News Reading Time Online has reviewed many of the 2015 shortlisted books over this past year. We have put them all together in this one post for your convenience. Book of the Year: Early Childhood Short List Book of the Year: Younger Readers Short List Book of the Year: Older Readers Short List Eve Pownall Award for Information Books Short List Picture Book of the Year The Crichton Award for New Illustrators Share. Related Posts 1 Comment Andrea Brock on Thanks so much for putting these reviews together – it is fantastic! Leave A Reply
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Children’s Book Week 2015 - Ideas for Performance Children’s Book Week 2015 - Ideas for Performance by Susan Stephenson, www.thebookchook.com This is the third of five articles at The Book Chook related to Children’s Book Week in 2015. The first was Activities for Children’s Book Week 2015. Next was Children’s Book Week 2015 - Challenges for Kids. Soon you can read Children’s Book Week 2015 Ideas for Display (coming 29/5) and Guest School Visits in Children’s Book Week (coming 1/6). Performances for Children's Book Week are very popular in Australian schools. The Children’s Book Week Parade has long been a fixture in schools. 1. 2. 3. To celebrate Children’s Book Week in style, lots of schools have a special assembly with some kind of performance from different classes. * Ask each class to bring a collaboratively-decided book to life in a way of their choosing. * Decide on one book for the whole school or department or grade. * With younger grades, a hybrid of reader’s theatre and acting works well.
How To Survive the Zombie Librarian Apocalypse This weekend I had the honor of being they keynote speaker at the Alabama School Library Association Summer Conference in Birmingham, (not Mobile, but that's another story) Alabama. From start to finish, I was so impressed by the core group of librarians who run this state association and who put on a small, but impactful, conference that focuses on supporting new librarians while also challenging all of us grizzled veterans. This is truly a great group of folks and I am super grateful for having had the chance to walk among them for a few days. Anyway, as part of my trip to Alabama, I was given the task of talking to a group of new librarians (those with 0-3 years experience in the library) from around the state about how they should approach their new adventure. I'm not sure if others in the room noticed it at the time, but at that moment a giant, blinking lightbulb went on over my head. And thus, my keynote for the Alabama School Library Association was born. #brainz
My Two Blankets | The Bottom Shelf My Two Blankets My Two Blankets Irena Kobald Freya Blackwood Little Hare, 2014 hbk., 32pp., RRP $A24.95 In the beginning she was a very happy little girl in her home village – so happy, her aunty called her Cartwheel. So, at home, she wrapped herself in a blanket of familiar words and sounds and memories – a blanket that was warm and soft and covered her all over, letting her feel safe. This is a poignant story deliberately set in Any Place, Anywhere because its message is not confined by boundaries or borders. Illustrated by the amazing Freya Blackwood, you can read about how she interpreted the concepts into what are the perfect accompaniments to this story on her blog If you are looking for titles which fit such themes as Belonging, Identity, Refugees and particularly the Australian Curriculum cross-curriculum priority Intercultural Understanding, this would be a perfect addition. A peek inside…
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Creative Communication Distribution to Staff I try to be intentional about the communication the school library sends to building staff. If you send too many emails, there is a strong chance the staff will stop reading. I also have noticed our past print newsletters often wind up in the recycling bin. Taking an idea from our district coordinator, Cristy Bolton, we created newsletters that hang in the staff restrooms. Each month, we create a new newsletter, Library Toilet Paper, with library details and humorous musings. Typically, we include two short articles promoting school library services in some way. The interactive portion includes a word search, crossword puzzle, or sudoku. Crossword Puzzle Creator Word Search Creator Sodoku Options To bring humor to the newsletter, we typically find funny memes or Jimmy Fallon’s #hashtag responses. To access additional Library Toilet Paper issues of our newsletter, click to view a Google Drive folder. Like this: Like Loading... Categories: Advocacy/Leadership, Blog Topics