Join us for Christmas events at the library! On Saturday, December 5th, there will be a Christmas storytime and craft for kids ages 3-6 at 10 a.m. We will hear Christmas stories and make candy cane Christmas ornaments to go with the parade's candy cane theme. There is limited space for this, so if you are interested you MUST register.
Santa will also be visiting the library on Monday, December 7th at 11 a.m. We will hear Christmas stories and all the kids will receive candy canes. Parents, bring your cameras! Registration isn't necessary for this one.
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Celebrating Food
I don't know about you, but I have food on my mind for the entire month of November, in anticipation of Turkey Day. At Allerton Library we have lots of books about food for kids of all ages.
The picture book crowd will like Amy Krouse Rosenthal's Little Pea, about a small pea who hates eating candy for dinner, but looks forward to a dessert of spinach. Mathmatically-inclined youngsters might also like Matthew McElligott's Bean Thirteen, which is about two grasshoppers--one superstitious, one not--who try to divide up thirteen beans for their dinner guests. It proves difficult, but it all works out in the end.
Older kids might like to try out our selection of cookbooks in our juvenile non-fiction section. We have a couple of Paula Deen's cookbooks for kids, a Ratatouille-themed cookbook, a few international cookbooks, and at least one gross foods cookbook. Kids can (with an adult's help) make quiche, potato salad, mini pizzas, and more.
Kids who are reading the Rebecca Caudill books (grades 4-8) might want to try Rose Kent's book Kimchi and Calamari. It tells the story of Joseph, a Korean-born boy who was adopted by an Italian-American family. Joseph is asked to do a family history project for school, and ends up trying to satisfy his curiosity about his birth family while trying not to let his birth parents feel bad about it. Food is more of a metaphor in this book, but you still get lots of sensory imagery and flavor while reading it.
The picture book crowd will like Amy Krouse Rosenthal's Little Pea, about a small pea who hates eating candy for dinner, but looks forward to a dessert of spinach. Mathmatically-inclined youngsters might also like Matthew McElligott's Bean Thirteen, which is about two grasshoppers--one superstitious, one not--who try to divide up thirteen beans for their dinner guests. It proves difficult, but it all works out in the end.
Older kids might like to try out our selection of cookbooks in our juvenile non-fiction section. We have a couple of Paula Deen's cookbooks for kids, a Ratatouille-themed cookbook, a few international cookbooks, and at least one gross foods cookbook. Kids can (with an adult's help) make quiche, potato salad, mini pizzas, and more.
Kids who are reading the Rebecca Caudill books (grades 4-8) might want to try Rose Kent's book Kimchi and Calamari. It tells the story of Joseph, a Korean-born boy who was adopted by an Italian-American family. Joseph is asked to do a family history project for school, and ends up trying to satisfy his curiosity about his birth family while trying not to let his birth parents feel bad about it. Food is more of a metaphor in this book, but you still get lots of sensory imagery and flavor while reading it.
Thursday, November 5, 2009
The Kidlitosphere
There are a huge number of children's librarians who, like me, maintain blogs. This month's issue of School Library Journal has featured 10 of them, in addition to mentioning the site Kidlitosphere, which is a gateway people can use to find more. Among the featured blogs are: Bookshelves of Doom, Editorial Anonymous, Read Roger, and Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast. Take a look! See if you like 'em. But, don't forget to keep coming back here. :P
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