tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60059624488929176572024-03-18T21:19:55.144-06:00THE LIBRARIESTDaNaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08433351609725965246noreply@blogger.comBlogger42125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6005962448892917657.post-53458049375612704412011-01-13T19:32:00.000-07:002011-01-13T19:32:15.734-07:00Awards Post MortemHere is a rundown on what I know and think about the books honored at the Youth Media Awards this past Monday. Oh what a day of surprises it was. We were able to watch it live in the library. I had gotten permission to call the 5th and 6th graders who participated in the Newbery Club out of class. There were also juice and muffins.
(Naturally I will only be mentioning DaNaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08433351609725965246noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6005962448892917657.post-43467210101473584122011-01-09T20:16:00.001-07:002011-01-09T20:44:52.721-07:00The Guessing Game of 2011: Who Will Walk with Newbery Gold and other Pressing QuestionsThe time cannot be put off for my annual prediction of the hoopla that will be happening tomorrow, known as the ALA Youth Media Awards. I’ve been gratified to know that I am not the only loon in the coop for whom the announcement of the Newbery, and her sister awards, is the biggest day of the year. Jonathan over at Heavy Medal compares it to waiting for a visit from St. Nick and Peter over at DaNaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08433351609725965246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6005962448892917657.post-67526841921239785012011-01-06T15:07:00.003-07:002011-01-06T21:29:56.418-07:00Mocking the CaldecottWith the big awards ceremony just around the corner, it is time to dust off the old blog. Those of you familiar with this blogger’s obsessions will not question which awards ceremony I am referring to. I care very little for The Oscars, The Nobels, or Cub Scout Bridging Ceremonies (although there was a time when those little scarf-wearers figured prominently in my life). Naturally what I am DaNaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08433351609725965246noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6005962448892917657.post-23184796843224526492010-08-27T15:33:00.000-06:002010-08-27T15:33:30.501-06:00One Crazy Book ClubI like to brag that I have the world most enjoyable job, and I will take on all the ice cream tasters and mattress testers who want to dispute my claim. Sometimes opportunities come along that take the enjoyable to the realms of enchanting. Recently Jennah Watters from the K-12 Recorded Books Blog offered me the opportunity to hold a summer book club starring one of the most extolled books of DaNaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08433351609725965246noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6005962448892917657.post-73974014222598758052010-07-19T17:52:00.002-06:002010-07-19T20:50:54.724-06:00Wallowing in Kid-Lit DecadenceThis past week I was lucky enough to attend the BYU Symposium on Books for Young Readers held a few mountain peaks south of me at the majestic Provo library in Provo UT. For kid-lit nerds it is two days of pure full-fledged geekdom. Each year the good people of BYU and the Provo library coerce (this may not be the most accurate verb as I believe other compensation is meted out) a selection of DaNaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08433351609725965246noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6005962448892917657.post-65314512349727850202010-06-07T21:37:00.002-06:002010-06-08T08:24:26.604-06:00Top 10 Essentials of 2010In an effort to swell my already healthy ego, my colleagues have requested that I put out a monthly list of the top 10 ten essential new books for our collections. It’s kind of like asking me to finish off that last piece of chocolate cheesecake. (Oh please, if you insist). Upon reflection what I think I’d like to do is a little of this, a bit of that, and some of the other. Meaning I will divideDaNaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08433351609725965246noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6005962448892917657.post-74481083277362554562010-05-30T21:46:00.004-06:002010-05-31T10:32:30.176-06:00Top 20 Children's Audio BooksCreating the following list was much less wrenching than the compiling of my Top Ten Children’s Novels a few months ago. For one thing I had the luxury of making it twice as long, and for another there were more elements to the criteria.
I had to have listened to the audio book, naturally. And although my public library system does an adequate job of feeding my greedy consumption of this DaNaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08433351609725965246noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6005962448892917657.post-80308241870748992242010-05-02T21:36:00.002-06:002010-05-02T21:38:13.522-06:00READING WHILE DRIVING, WHILE WALKING, WHILE CLEANING THE TOILET: how a dyslexic can get through 6 books a week.I am, at times, asked how I have time to read all the books I do. The answer is two-fold:
#1 – My priorities are skewed. Many of those asking, find that taking care of a household and family and having social life should precede the siren’s call of the unread page. I on the other hand will allow all sorts of duties to be neglected in order to satisfy my compulsion to see what happens next, in DaNaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08433351609725965246noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6005962448892917657.post-71308621064117817702010-02-11T19:16:00.007-07:002010-02-12T09:13:01.983-07:00Valentine Stories for the Demented.I look forward to the week every year. Not because I get showered with all the chocolate I am due, or because I have a secret hankering to create obscure poetry out of NECCO hearts, (which now that I have put the idea in this sentence I really do have a hankering for). I adore this week of love because I get to make 6th graders squirm. I have developed a sure fire reading list for my upper gradesDaNaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08433351609725965246noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6005962448892917657.post-59709081986115068552010-01-31T20:11:00.002-07:002010-02-01T07:32:49.456-07:00100 Books by 10-10-10: Throwing down the GauntletHere's something I did not know about the phenomena known as Social Media: It is awash in challenges. In the past few months I have been made aware of the following blogging challenges:
Blogging every day for a month - I was not even remotely tempted.
Cleaning out the backlog of unfinished posts - yeah right, I will get on that one as soon as I get around to putting my Christmas DaNaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08433351609725965246noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6005962448892917657.post-60707476852945902272010-01-26T15:41:00.022-07:002010-01-27T15:51:20.724-07:00The Results of the 2nd Annual Snow Horse Leu-bery This past week marked the second year in a row an assemblage of well-read students from my school, gathered in the early hours of a January morning. They were eager to view the results of the ALSC awards announcement, and to discover which of the books, they have been cramming to read over the past couple months, came out on top in their own vote. Last year in an attempt to spread my Newbery DaNaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08433351609725965246noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6005962448892917657.post-49841788539140952532010-01-19T11:55:00.003-07:002010-01-19T12:38:26.167-07:00A Time-Honored Post Newbery Tradition: In which I attempt to post my first videoRegardless of where in the country the Newbery and Caldecott medalists may be when they get the news, the very next thing they will be required to do is make travel arrangements to the NBC studios to appear on The Today's Show.EDITORIAL NOTE: Attempt to embed NBC video failed. We are blaming NBC.Here is a link to watch Jerry Pinkney and Rebecca Stead basking in the glow of their medals, (not DaNaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08433351609725965246noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6005962448892917657.post-2077937368140033342010-01-18T07:42:00.007-07:002010-01-19T10:01:30.223-07:00Ladies and Gentelman May I Present Your 2010 Children's Literature AwardsIt has been a very good morning indeed: a bit of snow, good companions, and TOTAL VINDICATION.Two of my intrepid Fantasy Newberyers, Matt and Shannon, joined me in the early hours of the AM in my more than frigid library to watch the proceedings. Also joining us, via speaker phone, was my sister in Portland who couldn’t master the connection. All events should have a disembodied voice in DaNaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08433351609725965246noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6005962448892917657.post-61747624958094872142010-01-17T21:43:00.009-07:002010-01-18T06:45:39.183-07:00Mock Results and Mental IllnessI think I’m developing a couple of disorders. First off I seem to be suffering from a bizarre form of Tourettes. Yesterday I told my daughter to turn the Newbery off. I told my husband that the Newbery was out of gas. And announced that I was much too tired to make Newbery and maybe we should just order pizza.My husband, who by day is a school psychologist, is worried his wife is becoming furtherDaNaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08433351609725965246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6005962448892917657.post-76412860889070801992010-01-14T17:06:00.010-07:002010-01-20T14:03:45.384-07:00A Shot at Prediction: please hand me my Swami turbanI’ve been reading everyone else’s predictions regarding the upcoming AlSC awards on Monday and I want to play. As I mentioned before I will be hosting my own Mock Newbery for grown-ups this Saturday. Some of my students are in the midst of a Mock Newbery of their own, on which I also plan to post the results of at some point. In the mean time let me revert back to my tried and true method of DaNaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08433351609725965246noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6005962448892917657.post-91956526278817104892010-01-13T15:58:00.006-07:002010-01-13T17:20:25.399-07:00AnnouncementsHere is your official reminder about the 1st annual Northern Utah, East of the Great Salty Lake, West of the Rockies, Adult Mock Newbery. We will work on the name, never fear. As I mentioned last month, the meeting will be held at my school library:Snow Horse Elementary, 1095 Smith Lane, Kaysville, This Saturday, January 16th10:00 A M. It should be a swell time, with many thanks to my Principal, DaNaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08433351609725965246noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6005962448892917657.post-61346040351170523052010-01-10T21:26:00.010-07:002010-01-11T19:57:57.903-07:00The Top 10 Middle-Grade Novels of all TimeThe Challenge: to pick, choose, classify, pigeonhole, endorse, and/or isolate the top ten middle-grade chapter books of all time. Oh, Sophie I feel your pain.That’s right folks Betsy Bird of Fuse #8 is at it again. After holding us enraptured last year as she, with the help of her readers, tallied up the 100 picture books of all time, she is now asking us to pick our top 10 middle-grade books, inDaNaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08433351609725965246noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6005962448892917657.post-29047251449687802682009-12-29T10:17:00.014-07:002009-12-29T12:42:15.443-07:00The Stars of 2009With the end of the year rolling up on us, I thought it was about high time I updated the highest reviewed books of 2009. As of this year there are six sources of reviews for Children's books: School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, Booklist, The Horn Book, The Bulliton of the Center for Children's Books and Kirkus Reviews. My dirty little secret is that with my meager district budget, I can DaNaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08433351609725965246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6005962448892917657.post-41036062108736774892009-12-09T16:14:00.007-07:002009-12-10T10:16:59.319-07:00Mock Newbery Anyone?Come January 18, 2010 the actual Newbery will be announced to the world at large, along with a passel of other awards. If you have ever dreamed of wielding a ghost of the power of the actual committee and live in Northern Utah join us for the first unofficial Mock Newbery of an as yet unnamed organization of Kid Lit enthusiasts.We will be meeting at my School Library in Kaysville, 1095 Smith LaneDaNaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08433351609725965246noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6005962448892917657.post-10498614254052335952009-11-30T20:18:00.006-07:002009-11-30T21:09:52.615-07:00When Life Imitates Art: a Thanksgiving Tale of WoeThis is Forrest.For those of you who are still in the process of making saccharine aaawwwing noises, stop right there and let me set you straight.This is the adorable bug-eyed face of mayhem.In a moment of weakness I agreed to dog-sit for my son, while he went off for a carefree holiday weekend.After all how much trouble could one 15-pound canine get up to in a home with nearly 3 grown adults andDaNaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08433351609725965246noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6005962448892917657.post-49792599925818156332009-11-19T08:43:00.003-07:002009-11-19T08:51:01.985-07:00Claudette Colvin is MVP of the NBAThat's "National Book Awards" for those of you more inclined to sports than literature.By all accounts this is one of the top books of the year. And I'm not sure what it means that I got my copy in the mail the same day the award was given. Does that make me as special as I would like to think?In an upcoming recap of Kid Lit Pie Night I will be announcing the picks for our Mock Newbery. Sneak DaNaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08433351609725965246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6005962448892917657.post-42332152739521058162009-11-05T08:23:00.004-07:002009-11-05T14:03:56.218-07:00Attempting to Make Utah a Little Slice of ManhattanMany of you reading this post may also be devotees of A Fuse #8 Production blog, AKA the world best blog. Possibly I should have qualified it as the world’s best Children’s Lit blog, but in my world there are no other blogs. This blog is brought to us supposedly by one Mrs. Elizabeth Bird, a lovely, witty, and prolific New York Public Librarian/soon-to-be published picture book author. I say DaNaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08433351609725965246noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6005962448892917657.post-57422982759173456612009-10-13T08:08:00.009-06:002009-10-14T22:24:47.823-06:00Before the Rumpus BeginsLet me say this right here, right now, and then I will forever be silent on the issue.I am not excited for the forthcoming cinematic version of Where the Wild Things Are.There I said it - let hellfire rain down from on high.I have little doubt that Mr. Spike Jonze's flick will we a resounding success, both critically and with audiences. The trailers have been stirring and enchanting. It has been DaNaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08433351609725965246noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6005962448892917657.post-83129387227812081442009-10-09T21:38:00.009-06:002009-10-09T22:32:43.165-06:00Me and Mo and 150 First-GradersThis week was fineThis week was dandyThis week me and my friends were happyWe found out that we like Sim. . el. . . We like Sim . . el. . .We like MO-CASTSWe also like PiggieWe like GeraldWe really like the funny, funny man Who dresses fancy to tell us funny storiesSometimes the funny man makes funny facesSometimes he makes funny sneezy noisesWe liked his pretend phoneWe don't think his pretend DaNaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08433351609725965246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6005962448892917657.post-10382725142962384392009-10-02T08:19:00.018-06:002009-10-02T12:00:41.989-06:00They Have Stars Upon TharsWhen it comes to purchasing books each year with the diminutive budget at my disposal, I feel that each and every book I buy must be heavily weighted to add substance, relevance and/or temptation to our collection as a whole. It’s a no-brainer to add the tempting books, all that is needed there is an eye to what is passing through the circulation desk at breakneck speeds, and find more of the DaNaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08433351609725965246noreply@blogger.com1