Storytime has always been special in our house: Re-reading the same picture book a hundred times, finding every book written by a well-loved author or discovering a big book like The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick that when becomes our new nightly read, makes us long for pajama time, eager to find out [...]
Call for Student Entries! Deadline is December 12, 2009. The Rhode Island Center for the Book at Providence Public Library invites all Rhode Island students in grades 4 – 12 to enter the national Letters About Literature contest with a national prize of a $10,000 grant for their local school or community library, thanks to [...]
In 1963, author/illustrator Maurice Sendak published his seventh children’s book, “Where the Wild Things Are”. The story of Young Max and his fantastical adventures on a mysterious island full of teeth gnashing, eye-rolling monsters—told more by pictures than words—won the 1964 Caldecott Medal and became one of the most loved and well-known books in children’s [...]
I was sad to hear Reading Rainbow, the third longest-running children’s series on PBS after Sesame Street and Mister Rogers aired its final episode on Friday, Aug. 28, 2009. For twenty-six years, Reading Rainbow has shared with a generation of children a love of reading. The show’s departure from PBS indicates a shift in the [...]
Read the book. Watch the film. Talk amongst yourselves… I prefer reading the book before watching a movie adaptation because I don’t want the film’s scenery, characters or revised storyline to cloud or diminish my personal experience with the book. I try to have my children follow this same rule for the same reasons but I [...]
Reviewed by Katy Killilea Children really crank up the speed of the entropy machine, don’t they? In my former life, I could make things orderly and they would stay that way very satisfactorily for days on end. It wasn’t that hard to be neat. Because there were no: globs of toothpaste on the toilet paper [...]
By Mary Smith Well-read, self-aware, and talented are three words that describe Alison Paul, author and illustrator of The Crow: A Not So Scary Story. Paul was inspired by the work of Edgar Allen Poe, relying specifically on Poe’s “The Raven” as a poetic muse as she guides us through a child’s imagination in her book. Paul’s [...]
I love movies for kids—not films that turn children into couch potatoes—the ones that inspire play, drawing, storytelling, character creation, or exploration into a new subject. Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, the sequel to Night at the Museum, is an entertaining movie for kids and adults—full of laughs and plenty of adventure [...]
By Mary Smith The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI), the world’s largest children’s writing organization, distributes the annual Golden Kite Award for excellence in children’s literature. Chosen by a jury made up of a writer’s peers, the Golden Kite Award is testament to the SCBWI’s mission to increase and improve communication between [...]
The Summer Reading Program, sponsored by the Rhode Island Office of Library and Information Services (OLIS), is a cooperative effort among the public libraries in Rhode Island to promote reading during the summer school vacation. The program encourages reading for pleasure, the development of positive attitudes about the public library, and provides constructive activities during [...]
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