This week is Children's Book Week! Has anyone done something special in their library to celebrate or highlight this week?
The official Children's Book Week bookmark for 2013 is by Grace Lin, the Newbery Honor author of Where the Mountain Meets the Moon. The official poster is by Brian Selznick.
Here's the Children's Book Week official website. It has a printable version of the bookmark.
This site shows what individual states are doing to celebrate this awesome week. Notice what Utah is doing. Gail Carson Levine will be at the Provo Public Library tomorrow (Friday) and also on Saturday! On Saturday, the Provo Library will also have many different Children's Book Week activities for the kids----face painting, crafts, life-sized book characters, treats, games, puppet shows, book displays, a maypole, live owls, and free books for the first 500 children. Sounds like fun! :-)
So excited to have and be surrounded by children's books. So sad I can't be reading them or checking any out for the past 5 weeks. WAAAAAAA! :o(
ReplyDeleteI have not - since this is the last week of library, I have been working on getting books back, and getting closure with the students for the year. We have been comparing different versions of children's stories - such as "The tin soldier" by Anderson vs. the version by Disney, and whales living in outer space ("If..." by Perry and "Pines of Rome" from Fantasia 2000). I wish they would change this to be in January. I think it would be so much more fun then.
ReplyDeleteThanks to Jeanene's foresight and planning we have a special bookmark to pass out to all of our students in celebration of Children's Book Week. I'm with Joseph and wish it were some other week other than one so close to the end of school.
ReplyDeleteI, too, am "calling all of the books home." Thank you for the link to the bookmark. I will definitely hand them out!
ReplyDeleteWe did the book "The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore." What I did was play part of the video (Academy Award Short Animation) and then read from the book up to that point. The video has no words so students volunteered what they believed was happening. It was a great experience and I was surprised how much the older kids liked it. It has great book messages.
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