Thursday, June 5, 2003

Fifty Ways to Keep Your Kids Reading All Summer by Gwynne Spencer If you'd like to encourage your kids to read more (and watch less) this summer, here you will find half a hundred easy ideas. Reading isn't the most important thing--it's the ONLY thing [LRC Blog] This would be good to give to our parents in the end-of-school information. 7:04:31 PM    comment []

We the People Bookshelf on "Courage" I first saw this referred to in an article which wrote about 15 books being offered to 500 libraries in a $100 million project. The math didn't quite compute for me, so I looked at the information more closely by going right to the NEH website. Of course the project is bigger than 500 times 15 books. Meanwhile, it's an interesting list of books. I wonder who exactly compiled it? If I saw the list without the title, I doubt if I would have come up with the theme of "courage," but maybe that's unfair. It's not a bad list, but I'll be anxious to see if they develop further lists. Maybe I'm too removed from the realities of American libraries, but wouldn't most of these titles be in any good library in any case? 8:07:49 AM    comment []

Summer reading list pulled from Web site over errors "The Education Department pulled its summer reading list from its Web site after learning the list misspelled and misidentified book titles and authors. Librarians also said the list was outdated. "The list included children's classics such as Beverly Cleary's "Ramona the Brave," Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird" and George Orwell's "Animal Farm." But librarians say it recommends few titles from the last decade. "I don't know if someone pulled out a really old bibliography from a file cabinet somewhere," Nancy Margolin, a media specialist at McDougle Elementary School in Chapel Hill, N.C., said Wednesday. "These don't seem like the kinds of lists that would be provided by librarians." (from AP) [LISNews.com] Oh, this is just great. I looked for the list, and sure enough, it's off the website. 7:28:05 AM    comment []

Summer Reading 2 Summertime Favorites is a list from the NEH that "represents NEH's long-standing effort to highlight classic literature for young people from kindergarten through high school." The list of 300 titles is divided into grade-level recommendations. 6:47:08 AM    comment []

Summer Reading 1 It's time to start collecting ideas and lists of recommended summer reading for my students, my colleagues, and me. There are plenty of lists out there, and posting them on this blog will help me keep track of them. The first one is Books for Summer Reading from the New York Times, June 1, 2003. 6:42:15 AM    comment []

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