From clcd_newsletter at childrenslit.com Fri Aug 1 10:34:27 2008 From: clcd_newsletter at childrenslit.com (clcd_newsletter at childrenslit.com) Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 10:34:27 -0400 Subject: CLCD Newsletter | Volume 7, Issue 8 | August 2008 Message-ID: Volume 7, Issue 8 August 2008 Search Tip of the Month This Month's Features Author Booking Service Spreading the News What did you do on your summer vacation? That old question came to mind as I was reading Julie Cummins? book, Women Daredevils. It wasn?t because these late nineteenth and early twentieth century women were off on holiday but rather because their death-defying acts entertained crowds of people. Sonora Webster Carver dove on horseback into a tank of water on the Steel Pier in Atlantic City which has been a summer playground for well over one hundred years. The amazing feats of these daredevils will entertain and enthrall your students. What a great icebreaker this book will be on the first day of school! You can get some behind the scenes information on Women Daredevils in my interview with Julie Cummins which is one of our author features this month. Yes, it is back to school time once again. There is excitement in the air as teachers, students and librarians prepare for the school year with fresh, new notebooks, fresh haircuts and a new outfit or two. As teachers and librarians, you get to meet new students and welcome back students from last year. They arrive fresh and ready to learn. What will you give them? Why fresh, new books! The Children?s Literature Comprehensive Database (CLCD) is here to help you select new books on today?s hot topics and titles to fill your curriculum needs. Remember last spring when you said you needed to update certain parts of the collection? You can easily do it today with the CLCD. Quote of the Month "The elementary reading and language arts teachers really like the lexiles, and reading and interest level features of the database. It really helps them recommend books to their students." Quinby Frank, Librarian, Green Acres School, Rockville, MD E-mail, a boon and a bane, but it is one of the easiest ways to pass along information. We have had several requests to add e-mail capability to CLCD and now it is in place. All you need to do is click on EMAIL in the upper right hand part of the search results page and you will be able to send off the results of your search. Keep in mind that you have the ability to select from the results and save the selected results and also sort before sending your e-mail. We encourage comments about this new feature and other capabilities that you would like to see added to CLCD. Monthly Features Aesop's fables are entertaining ways to begin discussions on human behavior. With the International Day of Peace on September 21 you will want to take a look at The Contest Between the Sun and the Wind : An Aesop's Fable retold by Heather Forest and illustrated by Susan Gaber. See our themed reviews list about Aesop. Back to School means more than just books about first grade or the first day of high school jitters. We have expanded this section to include other topics such as dealing with special needs siblings and bullies. See what our reviewer has to say about The Bully from the Black Lagoon by Mark Thaler with illustrations by Jared Lee. It is difficult to talk about Helen Keller without referencing Annie Sullivan. But what do we really know about this incredible teacher? In updating this section we have included a new book, Helen's Eyes: A Photobiography of Annie Sullivan by Marf? Ferguson Delano, as well as books about Keller.Author Features Melissa A. Calderone, a huge comic book fan, is the author of Anna Smudge: Professional Shrink. It is book one of "The Professionals" mystery series for ages 10 to 14. Find out why she says this series is, "kind of like the A-Team meets the Justice League!" Julie Cummins presents "the chill of the thrill" in her book, Women Daredevils. Her conversational style brings to life thirteen women who, says Cummins, "dove, drove, sped, and fed the public's appetite for spine-tingling, breath-holding entertainment." In this question and answer interview you will learn how she discovered their stories and brought them together, and what she discovered along the way. Jennifer Holm is the author of the Newbery Honor Books, Our Only May Amelia and Penny from Heaven, as well as the popular graphic novels about Babymouse. Learn more about her, such as what she liked to read as a child and where her ideas come from, in this feature. Children's Literature currently assists schools, museums, conferences and other organizations in identifying authors and illustrators for speaking engagements. Authors and illustrators provide valuable insight into their craft and connect their audience with the world of literature. In each issue we will highlight several of our booking service participants. To learn more about this service, please go to http://www.childrenslit.com/bookingservice/bs-home.html Jeanne Pettenati Galileo is known today for his studies of the stars and the solar system, but his use of scientific methods to conduct those studies and experiments was as revolutionary as his discoveries. Jeanne Pettenati has created a journal that Galileo might have written during one brief year when he used trial and error to create a telescope. Jeanne has visited students in grades one through five, adapting her Galileo presentation to meet curriculum needs for the appropriate age group. Please, visit http://www.childrenslit.com/bookingservice/pettenati-jeannek.html to learn more and book this author. Rosalyn Schanzer Author/illustrator Rosalyn Schanzer writes books about American history's greatest adventures and tallest tales. How could she tempt readers to step into the past? She mixes heroic deeds with funny stories and small everyday events so that historic figures come to life for today's readers. Rosalyn Schanzer is available for presentations to groups ages 5-adult. She speaks both nationally and internationally at schools (usually grades K-8), universities, seminars, conferences, panel discussions, workshops, etc. All presentations are customized. Please, visit http://www.childrenslit.com/bookingservice/schanzer-rosalyn.html to learn more and book this author/illustrator. CLCD Newsletter Editor, Sharon Salluzzo serves as a library and education consultant to CLCD. In addition, Sharon is a book reviewer, a storyteller, and a member of The Children's Book Guild of Washington, DC. She currently serves on the ALSC Quicklist committee. Sharon earned her MLS at SUNY Geneseo. About the Children's Literature Comprehensive Database Our monthly newsletter is now available to everyone within an organization, not just the primary contact. A new feature at www.childrenslit.com will provide you with a form allowing you to sign up for just the electronic newsletter. The Children's Literature Comprehensive Database, updated mid-month, is your most complete source of information about children's books. Indeed, it is the next best thing to having the book in hand, and the best tool for leading you to the best books. All at a most affordable price. To subscribe to the CLCD or contact us, go to www.childrenslit.com. Your inquiry about CLCD has generated this email. Our newsletter is issued monthly. Please be assured that we do not sell or rent our lists. If you do not wish to receive our monthly updates, please click here and unsubscribe from the list. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.childrenslit.com/pipermail/clcd_newsletter/attachments/20080801/abdf6151/attachment.html From clcd_newsletter at childrenslit.com Fri Aug 29 12:05:20 2008 From: clcd_newsletter at childrenslit.com (clcd_newsletter at childrenslit.com) Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:05:20 -0400 Subject: CLCD Newsletter | Volume 7, Issue 9 | September 2008 Message-ID: Volume 7, Issue 9 September 2008 Search Tip of the Month This Month's Features Author Booking Service Spreading the News This month, the Europeans are coming to Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Kentucky, for one of my favorite sporting events. It is the Ryder Cup in which America's top golfers come together as a team to compete with a team of Europe's top golfers. Although professional golf is usually an individual sport, for this one week every two years it becomes a team sport. Such excitement! The opening ceremonies draw upon the history and traditions of golf, often with bagpipes leading the parade of players. Paul Azinger, a former member of several American Ryder Cup teams and this year's captain, is already planning his strategy. What does this have to do with the Children's Literature Comprehensive Database (CLCD), you ask? Why it is simple! The Europeans are coming to the CLCD, too. That is, the bibliographic records for children's books are coming to the CLCD. This month, we are in the process of adding the French records. Once part of the database, you will have to click "French" in the language option to access them. We are consulting with other European countries for their records, as well. The UK and Ireland have produced great golfers and great children's books. Their bibliographic records, as well as those from Canada, have been in CLCD for quite a while now. You have probably seen some of them in the search results. We also have reviews from these three countries. "Comprehensive" is an important part of our name, you know! There is a little difference between the Ryder Cup and the CLCD. With the CLCD, we are all on the same team. Our subscribers are a global range of professionals who work with children's and young adult books and other media. They have discovered the convenience of finding all the information they need in one place: the Children's Literature Comprehensive Database. You are cordially invited to join our team of subscribers. Quote of the Month "CLCD is my primary source for reviews! I'd be lost without it." Jenny B. (J. B.) Petty, Ph.D., Professor/Coordinator of Library Science Education, Missouri State University Don't forget to use the B&N Button. It will provide additional information and current pricing for the books you are considering for purchase. In addition, should you decide to purchase through B&N, all CLCD subscribers get an extra 5% discount. Monthly Features To celebrate apple season we present books about the man who helped the pioneers settle across America. The reviews about Johnny Appleseed include books for young children as well as some for middle readers, such as The Sun, the Rain, and the Apple Seed: A Novel of Johnny Appleseed's Life by Lynda Durrant. Grandparents' Day will be celebrated on September 7, 2008. In Grandpa's Hands will certainly generate conversations at home, but as a classroom read-aloud it could also inspire art, poetry or other writing projects. Enjoy it and the other books in our feature spotlighting grandparents. With the publication of a new book this month whose focus is the White House, it occurred to us there are many books about the home of the President of the United States: factual, novels and picture books, and those fun trivia books. Candlewick Press has published Our White House: Looking in Looking Out. It has an introduction by David McCullough and has been created by 108 well known authors and illustrators and The National Children's Book and Literacy Alliance. This list will give you some new ideas for introducing subjects in the classroom and a new approach for an election year display.Author Features Kathi Appelt says, "I believe that writers are like crows. We find shiny objects and take them back to our desks, and weave them into a story." Read how she combined a Caddo jar, a Calico cat, and an encounter with a water moccasin into her latest book, The Underneath. Andrew Clements' new book for middle readers is Lost and Found, a story of sixth-grade identical twins who think up a scheme to dupe their teachers and school administrators. A father of twins, himself, Clements answers whether he used personal observations for this book. He also gives insightful comments on "thinking like a writer." Ann Whitford Paul is the author of Little Monkey Says Good Night and Count on Culebra : Go from 1 to 10 in Spanish. In this "Getting to Know..." feature she tells us about her previous career, favorite activities, and why, "My reading in elementary school sometimes got me into trouble." Children's Literature currently assists schools, museums, conferences and other organizations in identifying authors and illustrators for speaking engagements. Authors and illustrators provide valuable insight into their craft and connect their audience with the world of literature. In each issue we will highlight several of our booking service participants. To learn more about this service, please go to http://www.childrenslit.com/bookingservice/bs-home.html Erica S. Perl Erica S. Perl has been writing from a young age. Her first published poem appeared in the children's literary magazine Cricket at the age of eight. One of Erica's favorite things about being an author is getting together with kids and sharing with the world the wonderful personality that made her books such a success. She has a variety of workshops and presentations available, and a remarkable ability to engage the children--while reading Chicken Bedtime is Really Early, she is apt to put on a chicken hat and lead the kids in chicken songs! Learn more about Erica's programs at http://www.childrenslit.com/bookingservice/perl-erica.html Janet Morgan Stoeke Janet Morgan Stoeke is the award-winning author of the delightfully entertaining Minerva Louise books. Minerva Louise stars in the original program, aimed at K through 2nd graders. Janet reads from some of the books, pointing out the events in her life that prompted her to think them up. Her newest program, aimed at fifth and sixth graders, focuses on writing from personal experience. It features the author's latest book, Waiting for May, her son's story about anticipating the adoption of his sister. Please visit Janet at http://www.childrenslit.com/bookingservice/stoeke-janetmorgan.html CLCD Newsletter Editor, Sharon Salluzzo serves as a library and education consultant to CLCD. In addition, Sharon is a book reviewer, a storyteller, and a member of The Children's Book Guild of Washington, DC. She currently serves on the ALSC Quicklist committee. Sharon earned her MLS at SUNY Geneseo. About the Children's Literature Comprehensive Database Our monthly newsletter is now available to everyone within an organization, not just the primary contact. A new feature at www.childrenslit.com will provide you with a form allowing you to sign up for just the electronic newsletter. The Children's Literature Comprehensive Database, updated mid-month, is your most complete source of information about children's books. Indeed, it is the next best thing to having the book in hand, and the best tool for leading you to the best books. All at a most affordable price. To subscribe to the CLCD or contact us, go to www.childrenslit.com. Your inquiry about CLCD has generated this email. Our newsletter is issued monthly. Please be assured that we do not sell or rent our lists. If you do not wish to receive our monthly updates, please click here and unsubscribe from the list. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.childrenslit.com/pipermail/clcd_newsletter/attachments/20080829/c313191f/attachment.html