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A big thank-you to all who responded to my personal request for suggestions
spending a sum of many that has been donated to an elementary library in my
sister's name. Your suggestions and offers of condolences have been helpful
and reassuring. Thanks so much for taking the time. Here is the hit:
My biggest suggestions
is...school stories! Kids love em, teachers do too!Some say, that is part
of the appeal of Harry P!
sooo..
Ramona Q books by Beverly Cleary
How to be Cool in 3rd GRade
Poison Ivy and Eyebrow Wigs
Best/ Worst School Year Ever
*One of the teachers at our school recently died (the first week of school.)
She had gone to our high school as a student, and her husband also teaches
at
our school. They have 2 children in the school also. Donations were made
to
the library in her memory from the staff and some friends. What I did,
since
she was a voracious reader of new fiction, was go to Walden's armed with
money and spent every last dime on new fiction that I felt she would have
read.
Since this is elementary, I would buy a lot of those books that kids read a
lot. Even if the library has 2 copies of of it already, I wouldn't care.
You can never have enough Dr. Seuss, Lio Lionni, Eric Carle, Shel
Silverstein, etc. If it were me, I would purchase a copy of every book by
each of the authors I just mentioned. For some more popualar titles, I
would
purchase several. I would, however, give the new librarian some choices. I
would have resented someone coming to me and telling me what I HAD to buy
with the money. There may be some things she has always wanted to buy and
never had the money for. And, as you pointed out, she knows better than you
what she likes to read to classes and what moves in her own library, other
than the obvious popular authors. I don't think it out of line, however, to
tell her some titles that you would like purchased.
Create a book plate for the books, so that people know the books were
donated
in her memory. In the books I just bought, I made a nice plate for each
book
on nice resume paper (thicker, and a nice color) and glued it in. Everyone
who reads them in the future will know they were donated in the memory of a
wonderful person. : )
*The Next Place by Warren Hanson is a wonderful children's book that
deals with death in a non secular way, so as not to be offensive to
anyone
*Last spring, the son of our art teacher died in an accident. Although we
did
not have the same amount of money to work with, we wanted to create
something
special that would last longer than books and would reflect the life of her
son and the contributions of our teacher. We created a multicultural art
display that is located in the Media Center. It's quite lovely and enhances
our center.
*How about a piece of furniture,
literature-related artwork, or a display case? If the school library
doesnt already have one, how about building a profession collection for
the teachers? (complete with a bookcase) .
*How about buying Caldecott/Newbery/Wilder/King books to supplament the
collection, or to replace really old ones. Or pick some really basic
authors such as dePaola, Carle, Seuss, Lobel, etc and buy as many of their
books in print that the library doesn't have. New reference materials are
really great: dictionaryies, even the new World Book primary encyclopedia,
atlases (the world is changing so fast), specialised dictionaries. Maybe
going the route of biogarphies; so many news ones keep coming out and
better and better.
*My recommendation
for a title would be "I Love You Forever" by Robert Munsch.
*Shel Silverstein --- anything - Where the Sidewalk Ends, Light in the Attic
etc.
Jane Yolen -- anything - Owl Moon, etc.
Rosemary Wells
Roald Dahl
Jack Prelutsky
*One nice thing for a school library to have that many don't usually have
the
budget for is multiple copies of favorite books. Many children like to team
read or buddy read and are hindered if the school only has one copy. It is
often nice for the Librarian to have extra copies of titles that she reads
aloud to classes because the kids all love to take out whatever they just
heard. This would also be a helpful suggestion when applied to award winning
titles like Newbery & Caldecott.
Or perhaps estabishing an audio collection for $5k would be a good project.
Kits of books with matching cassettes are helpful for families where people
are too busy to read to children, ESL homes, remedial readers etc. Recorded
books are often too expensive for school libraries.
*my favorite easy picture book is the Gruffalo
my favorite chapter book is Tuck Everlasting and Perloo the Bold
how about a series on states or something that relates to 4th grade
curriculum
*Titles I might include would be:
Officer Buckle and Gloria
Mr. Putter series by Cynthia Rylant
The Secret Garden by Hodgens
Hatchet and Brian's Return by Gary Paulsen
Double Trouble in Walla Walla
Mr. Falk by Patricia Palocco
Pink and Say by Patricia Palocco
Toot and Puddle series
The Triple Creek Dam Affair by Patricia Palocco
Berenstain Bears Easy Chapter Books by Berenstain
The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1963 by Curtis
Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor
*Two titles come to mind immediately -
Thank you, Mr. Falker by Patricia Polacco and
Where is Grandpa Now? by T.A. Barron. Both have a lot to say about people
we are fortunate to have had in our lives.
*I would suggest the latest edition of World Book Encyclopedi in print -
2001. World Book also has a wonderful set of Christmas Around the World
Books. Check with Follett - this company can review the current
collection
and suggest new curriculum related books to add to the library - it's
called
a collection development analysis
*. Poppy by Avi Poppy and Rye by Avi The
Secret
> >Knowledge of Grown-Ups by David Wiesnewski (sp?) Falling Up by Shel
> >Silvestein (any anything else by him too) I Spy books Harry Potter books
> >Holes by Louis Sacher From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E.
> >Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg A View from Saturday also by
E.L.Konigsburg As for everybody books (picture books): anything by
Patricia Polacco is magnificant and a must have Georgie the Ghost books
Froggy books by London Bill Martin Jr. books are great the entire Junie B.
Jones series by Barbara Parks is loved by all the primary age kids
*
Jane Perry/Library Media Specialist
Winslow Jr. High Library
10 Danielson St.
Winslow, ME 04901
jperry@mailhost.winslow-jhs.u52.k12.me.us
http://www.winslow-jhs.u52.k12.me.us/jperry/main.htm
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