Bookmark Contest!!!!

Bookmark Contest

All Three Branches

Thursday, October 15, 2009

12:00 PM

All artists pre-school through high school may submit entries for the Juneau Public Library’s annual bookmark contest. Entries must be submitted to the Juneau Public Libraries by Thursday, October 15th. Prizes donated by Friends of the Juneau Public Libraries and Hearthside Books. 2009 theme: Make a splash at your library.
Click here for more information and entry forms.
Questions: Amelia at 586-5303 or ameliaj@juneau.lib.ak.us [more info]

In the Stacks — 2009-07-09

Jack’s House, by Karen Magnuson Beil, illustrated by Mike Wohnoutka

Posted 2009-07-09

For lovers of big machines and fans of the story of Jack and the house he built, this picture book tells the other side of the story and pokes a bit of fun at spiffy-looking Jack. Meet Max, the contractor for Jack’s house, who isn’t one to let his part in the project go unnoticed. He shows off his crew, who use bulldozers, backhoes, cement trucks, and more to get Jack’s house built. Then, the twist: Jack appears, ready to kick back in his new digs and claim credit – but is it really his house if Max built it? Max is an appealing doggy narrator for this fun variation on a familiar story.

The Doghouse, written and illustrated by Jan Thomas

Posted 2009-07-09

What happens when the ball that four friends are playing with lands right in the doghouse? Someone brave is going to have to get it out. Will it be Cow? Or Pig? Or Duck? One thing’s for sure: it won’t be Mouse! In fine dramatic form, the sky darkens and flashes with lightning and bats fly overhead as the friends go into the doghouse one by one – but none come back! Mouse is left alone, until the final page, when readers and Mouse both get a pleasant surprise.

Little Panda, written and illustrated by Renata Liwska

Posted 2009-07-09

Everyone knows that tigers don’t fly! But Grandfather Panda tells his grandson the story of Bao Bao the panda cub and the flying tiger – and says every word is true. (Can you figure out how he knows?) Bao Bao loves living in the misty mountains with his mother Lin Lin. All day long he eats, plays, sleeps, and learns the ways of the world from Lin Lin. When she goes off in search of food one day, a tiger comes along who is also searching for food. But tigers, of course, don’t eat bamboo like Bao Bao and Lin Lin – they eat pandas! Liwska’s muted tones and soft edges make even the tiger look cuddly, and the story of how Bao Bao escapes the tiger and how the tiger flew make a delightful tale for both Grandfather Panda’s grandson and for small human listeners alike.

Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes, written by Mem Fox, illustrated by Helen Oxenbury

Posted 2009-07-09

One at a time, babies and toddlers from a number of races and cultures are introduced, playing together and showing off their fingers and toes. Though clothing and skin tones vary widely, the underlying message is of the pictured children’s shared humanity, and their pleasure in each other’s company and their empathy for one another are made clear in Oxenbury’s charming drawings. Simple and elegant, this rhyming picture book gives little listeners what they love best in books: rhyme, repetition, and images of other babies, and gives their caregivers all that plus a springboard for counting, talking about activities, and cuddling with their little ones.

Birds, by Kevin Henkes, illustrated by Laura Dronzek

Posted 2009-07-09

Birds in many colors gather here in tree branches, on window sills, and on telephone lines in this book for the very young. Their varying numbers can lead to counting and color naming games between child and reader and also entice both into flights of fancy and wonderment. What if birds painted their flight paths with their tails? Where do they go when storms come? Short declarative sentences support the colorful drawings, and the pictures have just enough detail let viewers focus on the important parts without distraction

How to Buy a Love of Reading

How to Buy a Love of Reading by Tanya Egan Gibson explores the idea that reading isn’t for everyone, especially not for Carley Wells who sees words as enemies and says of books,  “I’ve Never met one I like”.  So if she’s not into reading whose crazy idea is it to try and buy her love?  Her parents’ idea, that’s who.  They’re determined to commission an author to write a book that even Carley Wells can love.  And Carley’s into it too, if only to help distract her best friend, Hunter Cay from his blurry world of booze, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Vicodin.  Despite her resistance, Carley soon finds herself swept up into the fictional world being written for her and life will never be the same again.   Check out the interactive website and award winning book trailer too.

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