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It's Summer! What's Inside Volume 30 Number 10 June 2007 It’s SUMMER! NewsletterNewsletterAh, summer…garden-fresh tomatoes, ripe peaches, sunshine, picnics at the lake, fireworks, and time for catching up on pleasure reading! For those lucky enough to have an actual break, it is a time of renewal, reflection, and revitalization, a time to prepare for the ‘new beginning’ we experience every year. I hope each one of you has a plan for some quality independent time. To start the summer fun, here are some new reads (in no particular order) that have come to our Professional Library that you may want to search out… they … grab a new book are not to be missed! (or an old favorite), relax, and ENJOY! The Invention of Hugo Cabret: a Novel in Words and Pictures by Brian Selznick, Scholastic, 2007. This is a surprising combination of narrative and illustration, a selec- tion that could easily be both a Newbery and Caldecott nominee! Set in 1930s Paris, this is a complicated and engaging mystery starring young Hugo, the son of a clock- maker, his friend and ally Isabelle, an automaton that can draw pictures, and a stage magician turned filmmaker, a character based on illusionist and pioneer filmmaker, Georges M’eli’es. Especially good for reluctant readers since text and pictures are so well integrated. On the Wings of Heroes by Richard Peck, Dial, 2007. Gentle humor and nostalgic glimpses of life in America during World War II bring another time and place to life. A variety of characters pass through the story as coffee and sugar are rationed, scrap metal is collected to support the war effort, and a world of people “Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without.” It’s easy to picture this novel as a wonderful film. What’s Inside And, for those of you working with kids this summer, or for those who have > President’s Message 1 children at home, look for Epossumondas Saves the Day by Coleen Salley, Harcourt, > Executive Director 2 2007. This is a high-spirited Louisiana version of the traditional folktale, Sody > Public Relations 2 Sallyraytus that is great fun to read aloud! A huge snapping turtle gulps down > Curriculum 3 birthday party guests one by one until the little possum, Epossumondas, saves > Governmental Relations 3 the day. > Educational Technology 4 > CA Dept of Education 6 Anything But Ordinary by Valerie Hobbs, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007 th > Leadership for Diversity 6 This is a story told over time, beginning in 8 grade. Winifred and Bernie, two social > Web Pathways 7 outcasts, become best friends, begin dating, and after rising to the top of their class, > Standards Implementation 8 plan on attending college together. The death of Bernie’s mother derails the plans and > Northern Notes 8 Bernie decides not to go to college. Winifred heads to UC Santa Barbara. How their > Southern Snippets 9 lives change and how they eventually discover what is most important, makes for a > Bookends 10 contemporary and very real story. > Calendar 11 > Deadlines and Editors 11 So, grab a new book (or an old favorite), relax, and ENJOY! - Martha Rowland, CSLA President EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR PUBLIC RELATIONS From the CSLA Office Los Angeles Time Festival of Books, 2007 ~By Linda Jewett, Executive Director ~By Barbara Duffy, PR Committee want to thank CSLA members for the am so JAZZED! What a production this is. UCLA is humming with people, thousands of many get-well wishes I have received since people, all interested in books. Surely this year will at least match last year’s attendance total I my three-week hospital “slumber party” I of 124,000. in March. The cards, letters, and emails all After I helped Richard Moore set up the CSLA booth I went off to the Volunteer site to helped me as I recuperated. Although I am register and get my assignment. I had thought I might escort Michael Douglas, but I was too not yet back in the CSLA office I do continue late for that assignment. Instead they offered my Jim Leherer and his wife Kate, along with to make progress. I was diagnosed with a Sander Vanocur. What a terrific day! Such nice people, and I learned a lot. And laughed. I was pneumonia that was neither caused by a virus in charge of getting a cart between sessions because Mr. Leherer’s health is a bit fragile. It was a nor bacteria and it took time to get it under bit tricky, but usually someone came to pick us up or we hijacked a cart that was idle. When we control. walked into the big auditorium in Korn Hall, there was not an empty seat in the place...I stood Congratulations to author and CSLA the whole time. Anyway, thunderous applause all the way from the back to the stage. Sander member Milly Lee who has been selected as Vanocur interviewed Lehrer and they were SO funny. I scouted the area and found elevators the 2007 recipient of the Commonwealth to the lower level so Mr. L. wouldn’t have to walk down stairs. No cart. We finally walked to Club of California’s Juvenile Book Award. the book signing. There a cart waited for us for 20 minutes while he signed books and then we Milly’s book, Landed, tells the family story were off to a radio interview on NPR. Then to a video session with a gentleman who is making of Lee Sun Chor’s Angel Island immigration a movie about the making of a movie about Mr. L’s first book...Viva Max. The original movie experience. came out some years ago. What a great treat. Summer is a time for school site library I highly recommend volunteering at the Festival of Books. There are so many things to people to hopefully relax and refresh. The do. One is to help with the CSLA Booth. Another is escorting authors. Another is staffing the past months have given me a new perspective information booths. Helping with the book signing. So many things to do, and so interesting. on the work passion that drives so many of The energies of people who love to read are wonderful. It is a real pleasure to be around all of us to exhaustion. Stop, relax, and re-evaluate them. your priorities and try to make a commitment Keep the weekends in April open next year for the Festival. Plan on participating in this to keep time for yourself as you begin a new learning experience and discover a fantastic experience. school year in the fall. Until the August newsletter - enjoy the fruits of summer: good books, good friends, new sights, and lots of laughter. - By Richard Moore, PR Committee got a roomful of applause from complete strangers today just for introducing myself. I rose and said, “Just so you know what one looks like, I am a credentialed school librarian. I I was attending a panel of “experts” discussing the future of schools and “What Works.” Paul Cummins of Crossroads was there, with Rafe Esquith (Teach Like Your Hair’s On Fire) and Keren Taylor of Write Girl (http://www.writegirl.org/) . They spoke of one thing after another that kids should be doing in school - all without mentioning libraries. So, during Q&A I stood up, said my line and got the response. I told them that everything they wanted to do they could do - if their school had a school librarian. Esquith and Cummins thanked me and Taylor came by the booth later to talk to me. Connections get made at events like this. Volunteers Connie Williams, Raj Ali, Doug Macomber, Barbara Duffy, and Sandy Schuckett all helped out over two days and were Busy! They have enlarged the children’s area and there was good traffic both days. The children of readers are a delight to talk to. I kept promoting the CSLA Poster Contest to them as they saw the art displayed. Young students from UCLA’s IS school said, “So THIS is where we go for school library credentials?” as I handed them CSU brochures. Authors were delighted as I gave them a handout tweaked from the OCPL website: http://www.ocpl.org/about-market.asp Our other handouts went like the candies in the Buffy tin. Characters from books wandered by, sounds echoed from stage presentations, panels intrigued and provoked attendees, poets read, smells drifted from the food court, and everyone enjoyed perfect weather. Do join us next year! 2 CSLA Newsletter, June 2007 CURRICULUM GOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS Know the State Look How Many! Standards ~By Crystal Miranda, Legislation Committee ~By Tanya Richards, LMT Modesto City Schools elow is the list of organizations, Coun- ty Offices of Education and School ixed library schedules, that provide Districts that have sent letters of sup- preparation time for teachers, leave few B port for AB333, our online database bill, thus opportunities for “authentic” collabora- F far. Isn’t it wonderful what you can do?! Only tive units. In past years, I usually managed to a few more weeks of school remain (whew!), squeeze in a few each year. This year, however, but it’s not too late to add your District to the it just wasn’t happening. Teachers were so list. Here is the link to all you need to know: stressed. “We have no time,” they cried. 2007 CSLA Conference! http://schoolibrary.org/leg/ “We follow the pacing calendar,” they fretted. “It’s not in the standards,” they lamented. Earlybird registration is now available ORGANIZATIONS Imagine my surprise when a teacher Association of California School Administrators online at <www.csla.net>.
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