Caldecott Medal Video

Randolph Caldecott, as performed by the Effin' G's.

Using Videos of books at Storytimes

Have you ever thought about using a video from YouTube for your storytimes? There are loads there. Here are two for the book Chicka Chicka Boom Boom.

Great Drawing Sites

So much fun to be had at Jackson Pollock site and on Dreezle Be careful it becomes addictive. Goes great with our summer reading program theme.

We Read Everything

This is just fun to watch from Booklist editors.

African Alphabet Song

Love this song by Kermit and friends.

CREW Method of Weeding

The CREW Method of Weeding (Continuous, Review, Evaluation, Weeding) is out in the 3rd edition and is free! Plus the site has a good PowerPoint to use to explain it to groups.

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Return to the Hundred Acre Wood

An authorized sequel to Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner is due out the first part of October. It is being written by David Benedictus. Have you ever wondered how they choose the person to write a sequel when it isn't the original author? This one has me puzzled as to why him. I did a quick search on B&T, World Cat and our own database and although he is an author he has not written any children's books. He has read for several audio versions of some Winnie-the-Pooh stories with some very distinguished names e.g. Judy Dench and Geoffrey Palmer. Maybe this gives him a feel for the stories and the characters making him a good candidate. We shall have to wait until October to see how he does.