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Children the journal of the Association for Library Service to Children Libraries & Volume 9 Number 3 Winter 2011 ISSN 1542-9806 Advocating for Born to Read Tours of the Geisel and de Grummond Collections Digital Cameras in Library Programming PERMIT NO. 4 NO. PERMIT Change Service Requested Service Change HANOVER, PA HANOVER, Chicago, Illinois 60611 Illinois Chicago, PAID 50 East Huron Street Huron East 50 U.S. POSTAGE POSTAGE U.S. Association for Library Service to Children to Service Library for Association NONPROFIT ORG. NONPROFIT Table Contents● ofVolume 9, Number 3 Winter 2011 Notes 22 Kendall Haven: The Man Behind the Startling Power of Story 2 Editor’s Note Cary Meltzer Frostick Sharon Verbeten 25 Home for the Holidays 2 The Dog-Eared Page The Depiction of Holiday Themes Happy Birthday, Old Friends! in Historical Children’s Literature Features Mary Elizabeth Land 39 Award Acceptance Speeches Digital Books for Digital Natives A Tour of Open Access Children’s 3 Geisel Award Digital Literature Collections Reading on My Own Cynthia Houston Kate DiCamillo 46 The Many Sides of Seuss 4 Geisel Award A Glimpse of the Geisel Library at the Stories Stay with Us University of California—San Diego Alison McGhee Angela Leeper 5 Geisel Award My Déjà Vu Euphoria Departments Tony Fucile 48 Children and Technology 6 Batchelder Award Finding Focus A Crazy Mad Love Story Using Digital Cameras in Library Programming Françoise Bui Joella Peterson 7 Carnegie Medal 51 Call for Referees Paul R. Gagne 8 Carnegie Medal 52 Special Collections Visiting the de Grummond Melissa Reilly Ellard A Preconference Tour of the 9 Sibert Medal Amazing Historic Collection Nic Bishop Marianne Martens 10 Sibert Medal 55 Author Guidelines Sy Montgomery 56 ALSC News 60 Index to Volume 9 12 Beyond Barriers 63 Index to Advertisers Creating Storytimes for 64 The Last Word Families of Children with ASD Susan Anderson-Newham Anne Leon 15 It’s (Still) Never Too Early to Start! Advocating for Born to Read Baptiste and Miranda Paul of Green Bay share a book with their two children at the Jenna Nemec Brown County Central Library in downtown Green Bay. Photo by Sharon Verbeten. Editor’s Note By Sharon Verbeten As I was creating a “back to school” library display this fall, I dug out my old elementary school report cards and eighth-grade class picture. Classic! Editor Sharon Verbeten, De Pere, Wis. I don’t remember that hideous striped cowl-necked sweater Editorial Advisory Committee in the photo, and I can’t recall when my penmanship really Christina M. Desai, Chair, Albuquerque, N.M. improved from a C to a B (it’s probably now a D). But one Timothy D. Capehart, Dayton, Ohio Robin Fogle Kurz, Pendleton, S.C. thing I remember like a slide show in my head are images from Amy Martin, Oakland, Calif. Jean M. Stevenson, Duluth, Minn. the libraries I visited—both the Mill Road Library near my Carol Hopkins, Puyallup, Wash. Lisa Taylor, Lavallette, N.J. Milwaukee home (where I hungrily attended storytimes) and Mary Fellows, ALSC President, Ex Officio, Albany, N.Y. my elementary school library that opened into a grotto-like Sharon Verbeten, Editor, Ex Officio, De Pere, Wis. courtyard at St. Bernadette’s School. Executive Director Aimee Strittmatter Fiction was always my favorite, and I remember touching the Managing Editor Laura Schulte-Cooper hardbound spines gingerly; it always seemed a sin to wrinkle Website the pages or finger a book too much. I guess those were pre- www.ala.org/alsc scient moments, whether I knew it or not. Circulation Children and Libraries (ISSN 1542-9806) is a refereed journal published three times per year by Those moments are ones many of us librarians recall—and the American Library Association (ALA), 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. It is the official pub- lication of the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of ALA. Subscription perhaps are part of the reason we followed this career path. I price: members of ALSC, $20 per year, included in membership dues; nonmembers, $40 per year in the U.S.; $50 in Canada, Mexico, and other countries. 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The journal primarily serves as a vehicle for continuing education of librarians working with children, which showcases current scholarly research and practice in library ser- vice to children and spotlights significant activities and programs of the Association. (From the journal’s “Policies and Procedures” document adopted by the ALSC board, April 2004.) The Dog-Eared Page Production Happy Birthday, Old Friends! ALA Production Services: Troy D. Linker, Chris Keech, Tim Clifford, Kirstin Krutsch, Chelsea McGorisk, and Rosalie Watts. With information culled from various web- Advertising Bill Spilman, Innovative Media Solutions, 320 W. Chestnut St., PO Box 399, Oneida, IL 61467; sites, we bid adieu to 2011 remembering some 1-877-878-3260 or (309) 483-6467; fax: (309) 483-2371; e-mail: bill@innovativemediasolutions anniversaries in children’s literature. .com. 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The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI n And can you believe it has been twenty-five years Z39.48-1992. since Robert Munsch penned Love You Forever . bringing Copyright © 2011 American Library Association All materials in this journal subject to copyright by the American Library Association may be joy and tears. & photocopied for the noncommercial purpose of scientific or educational advancement granted by Sections 107 and 108 of the Copyright Revision Act of 1976. For other photocopying, reprint- ing, or translating, address requests to the ALA Office of Rights and Permissions. 2 Winter 2011 • Children and Libraries “ ’m going to fly to the moon.” These are the first Iwords I read on my own. The sentence is from Else Holmelund Minarik’s book Little Bear, and the words appear beneath an illustra- tion by Maurice Sendak that shows Little Bear in a space helmet flying toward a full moon. The helmet is made out of a cardboard box with two curly wires attached to the top of it. It doesn’t look very much like a real space hel- met, but it sure looks like it’s Geisel working. Because Little Bear is flying. makeshift helmet on his head and the Award He is headed to the moon. moon in front of him, I have to bend over and catch my breath. Acceptance And I am reading about it. I feel dizzy with possibility. On my own. Speech What if some child in some empty class- I am sitting in an orange, molded plastic room, opens up a book and sees two girls, Reading on My Own chair in Mrs.