Kids Corner

     Catch the Reading Bug this Summer

@ Colon Township Library

                                 2008 Summer Reading Program

*Beginning June 1st for kids ages 4-11*  “Swarm” over to the library and find something fun to read. 

Each book you read earns you an entry in our drawing jar for great weekly prizes.  Finish your summer reading log, and

you’ll be invited to our Reading Bug Blast in August for more fun and prizes.

Summer Fun Programs

Friday, June 6th, 10 am-noon—Summer Reading Kickoff

Sign up for summer reading, and “bee our guest.”  We’ll have games, giveaways, and real six-legged critters to inspect.

Friday, June 13th, 10-10:45 am—Puppet Show

Joyce Davis & Friends will present “Marvin the Marvelous Monarch” and “The Humorless Hungry Honeybee.”

Thursday, June 26th 10-10:45 am—Professor Anson Pantz

Presenting “Insects Do the Strangest Things”   Don’t miss the fun!!!

Friday, July 25th, 11-11:45 am—Bug Predators: Bats!

Get up-close to these interesting creatures from the Bat Conservancy. 

Family Programs -- for all ages

Thursday, June 19th, 6 pm—Healthy Bug Program

Featuring Sarah Hagen from Sturgis Hospital

Mid-July—Celebrate Butterflies!

With local wildflower expert Bob Tardiff

Thursday, August 7th, 6-8 pm—Buggy Snacks

Create some edible, insectible fun!

Kids vote for your favorite books this summer at www.voteforbooks.com!

     
"A family-friendly site for kids, www.kids.gov has features topics from arts and music to space and history. They can play entertaining and educational games, create art project, explore different careers, learn how the government works, get homework help, and much more."

http://www.lpi.usra.edu/education/explore/

Explore! Fun with Science is designed to engage youth in space and planetary science in the library and other informal learning environments.

Through video explorations, related hands-on activities, and supporting resources, children of all ages are immersed in the wonders of rockets,

space colonies, our solar system, how our plantes were shaped, and more!

The Caldecott Medal was named in honor of nineteenth-century English illustrator Randolph Caldecott. It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children.

2008 Medal Winner

The 2008 Caldecott Medal winner is The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick (Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic)From an opening shot of the full moon setting over an awakening Paris in 1931, this tale casts a new light on the picture book form. Hugo is a young orphan secretly living in the walls of a train station where he labors to complete a mysterious invention left by his father. In a work of more than 500 pages, the suspenseful text and wordless double-page spreads narrate the tale in turns. Neither words nor pictures alone tell this story, which is filled with cinematic intrigue. Black & white pencil illustrations evoke the flickering images of the silent films to which the book pays homage.

2008 Honor Books

Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad by illustrated by Kadir Nelson, written by Ellen Levine (Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic)Inspired by an antique lithograph, Kadir Nelson has created dramatically luminous illustrations that portray Henry “Box” Brown's ingenious design to ship himself in a box from slavery to freedom.

First the Egg, written and illustrated by Laura Vaccaro Seeger (Roaring Brook/Neal Porter)Laura Vaccaro Seeger's innovative concept book on transformations, First the Egg uses strategically placed die-cuts to provide an astonishing visual explication of the word “then.” Her richly textured brushstrokes creatively reveal the process of metamorphosis for young readers. 

The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain, written and illustrated by Peter Sís (Farrar/Frances Foster)The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain, a graphic memoir of Sís's youth in Prague, brilliantly weds artistic and design choices to content: tight little panels with officious lines and red punctuation; full-bleed line-and-watercolor spreads of nightmares and dreams; color and absence of

color.

Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity, written and illustrated Mo Willems (Hyperion)Willems sets the stage for one of the most dramatic double-paged spreads in picture-book history in Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity. Masterful photo collages take Trixie and her daddy through their now-familiar Brooklyn neighborhood to the Pre-K class where Trixie discovers that her beloved Knuffle Bunny is not “so one-of-a-kind anymore.”

The Newbery and Caldecott Medals and Honor Book seals are property of the American Library Association and cannot be used in any form or reproduced without permission of the ALA Office of Rights and Permissions.

TumbleBooks is an online library of animated, talking picture books

which teach kids the joy of reading in a format they’ll love.

Try TumbleBooks as a courtesy of the Colon Township Library!

Fact MonsterTM (http://www.factmonster.com/).
Family Education Network Inc.

SIRS Discoverer Deluxe

A children's database with full-text of articles, books, video, audio on all topics. The interface is appropriate to children and includes reading levels, teacher's help pages, and more.

www.ala.org/families

A web page designed especially for kids and parents that links to family-friendly ALSC resources such as Great Web Sites for Kids, recommended book lists and online activities for children.