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I need the help of my colleagues on this one.  One of the parents (who happens to 
also be a library student) is challenging a book I read to the Kindergarten class 
before Christmas.  The book in question is "The Legend of the candy cane" by 
Walburg.  I teach in a private school and we try to incorporate the teachings of 
all religions into our lessons.  We tell Davali stories, Hannuka stories etc.  We 
feel this helps our children understand and respect the beliefs of others.  This 
parent went to the Head of the Lower School, rather than to me personally and her 
husband also teaches in our school.  It is a particularly dicy situation.  I would 
like any suggestions you may give me on how to handle this.  The Head told me she 
was going to recommend that this parent come directly to me, but to date, that has 
not happened. Have any of you had any problems with this book?  Thanks so much in 
advance for any advice and wisdom you can throw my way.

Linda M. Abati, MLS
Lower School Librarian
Saint Mary's Hall
9401 Starcrest Drive
San Antonio, TX 78217

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Topics of the day:

  1. GEN: Librarian who penned bestselling 'Dewey' book adopts a new cat
  2. Texas Bluebonnet reading celebrations
  3. OT Radio====This is cool
  4. Tar: burned-Ellen Hopkins
  5. Richie's Picks: THE GRAVEYARD BOOK

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Date:    Wed, 31 Dec 2008 14:41:24 +0000
From:    "William L. Katzenberger" <william.katzenberger@COMCAST.NET>
Subject: GEN: Librarian who penned bestselling 'Dewey' book adopts a new cat

Dewey author gets new cat=20

By MICHAEL J. CRUMB, Associated Press Writer Michael J. Crumb, Associated P=
ress Writer 1=C2=A0hr=C2=A055=C2=A0mins=C2=A0ago=20

DES MOINES, Iowa =E2=80=93 Vicki Myron intended to wait a year or two befor=
e getting another cat.=20

Her best-selling book, "Dewey, The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the W=
orld," was keeping her on the road most of the time and she didn't have tim=
e for a pet.=20

An orange and white kitten found on a snow-covered road changed her mind.=
=20



http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081231/ap_en_ot/a_new_dewey/print=20

William L. Katzenberger=20
Media Specialist and Technology Coordinator=20
Dodge Park Elementary School=20
3401 Hubbard Rd=20
Landover, MD 20785=20

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Date:    Wed, 31 Dec 2008 08:33:20 -0800
From:    Denise Wessels <drwessels@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: Texas Bluebonnet reading celebrations

I am the librarian on a 5th/6th grade campus.  This is the first year we have 
participated in the Texas Bluebonnet reading program.  My students have been very 
excited about reading the books and I want to plan some sort of celebration to end 
the program.

I was just wondering if any of you other Texas school librarians would mind sharing 
some of your good ideas with me.  Also, I'm trying to decide whether the 
celebration should be on voting day or after TLA announces the winning title and 
author.  Any suggestions or ideas would be greatly appreciated.  My email address 
is drwessels@yahoo.com.

Denise Wessels
Librarian
Beltline Intermediate
504 E. Beltline Rd.
Cedar Hill, TX 75104




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Date:    Wed, 31 Dec 2008 12:29:23 -0800
From:    Darlene Yasick <lib027yas@SBCGLOBAL.NET>
Subject: OT Radio====This is cool

This is amazing and one of the best links I've seen in a long time !!! Make=
s some nice background music. I started out with the Everly Brothers and th=
en got all sorts of similar music after that !=20





Just type in any song that was ever played, and see=20

what happens. Then,following the end of the song, it will keep playing=20

songs of the same era forever.=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0

=A0=A0=A0=20

=A0www.theradio.com=A0=A0=A0

=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0

=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0
Darlene Yasick
Media Specialist
Hopkins (MI) High School
lib027yas@global.net

=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0

=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=20













& More!

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Date:    Wed, 31 Dec 2008 18:35:55 -0800
From:    Nancy <butterflymoon20022002@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: Tar: burned-Ellen Hopkins

I have read burned. It was a different sort of book for me written in prose=
=A0but easy to read from page to page it flowed so easily, it was difficult=
 for me to put the book down. it is about a father who is verbally,=A0physi=
cally and mentally abusive.My question, I am a Librarian/Teacher in a middl=
e school. I feel my library is young with many of the books for the lower e=
nd of middle school. I want to add books to make the library feel more like=
 high school for the 8th graders. I want to add books to encourage them to =
read on a high level. So I guess my question and I need advice would it be =
appropriate to add burned to a middle school library?
Nancy Goodrich
River Bend M S
Sterling,VA 20165
nancy.goodrich@loudou.k12.va.us
or
butterflymoon20022002@yahoo.com
=A0=0A=0A=0A

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Date:    Wed, 31 Dec 2008 22:16:12 EST
From:    Richie Partington <BudNotBuddy@AOL.COM>
Subject: Richie's Picks: THE GRAVEYARD BOOK



Richie's Picks: THE GRAVEYARD BOOK by Neil  Gaiman, illustrated by Dave
McKean, HarperCollins, October 2008, 307p., ISBN:  978-0-06-053092-1

"You to me are but a passing breeze." -- Donovan, "Happiness  Runs"

"The man Jack paused on the landing.   With his left  hand he pulled a large
white handkerchief from the pocket of his black coat, and  with it he wiped
off the knife and his gloved right hand which had been holding  it; then he put
the handkerchief away.  The hunt was almost over,  He  had left the woman in
her bed, the man on the bedroom floor, the older child in  her brightly colored
bedroom, surrounded by toys and half-finished models.   That only left the
little one, a baby barely a toddler, to take care of.   One more and his task
would be done."

But it is an unusually adventuresome toddler who, having  been awakened by
the noise downstairs and seeking release from the boredom of  cribdom, has
already succeeded in escaping both his crib and the house  (through the door that
the man Jack has left slightly ajar).  Toddling  up the hill through the
thinning fog, the toddler squeezes between  iron bars into an old graveyard.  And
even though the  man Jack tracks the toddler to the graveyard, the  killer fails
in his final task due to the intervention of the ethereal  inhabitants of the
graveyard.  Led by the Owens couple  (who have been married in life and death
for more than 250  years),  those who call this place home decide to become
protectors, teachers, friends, and surrogate parents to the child, and to
provide him the "Freedom of the Graveyard."

"'It is going to take more than just a couple of good-hearted  souls to raise
this child.  It will,' said Silas, 'take a  graveyard.'"

These good-hearted souls also decide to name him Nobody  Owens, Bod for short.


"Rattle his bones
Over the stones
It's only a  pauper
Who nobody  owns" (epigraph)

Considering that our introduction  to the toddler includes details of his
resourcefully pulling  a teddy bear into the corner of the crib in order to scale
its high  sides, his experiencing a fortuitously soft landing upon falling to
the floor,  and his skillfully navigating the stairs on his way out of the
house, it is  not surprising to see Bod grow into a bright and equally
adventurous little kid who never hesitates to venture wherever he  feels inclined to
do so -- and is all too successful in achieving his  desires.  Fortunately, he
has the support system of the many  graveyard inhabitants so that he
repeatedly experiences relatively  soft landings.

"He decided not to tell anyone what he was planning, on the  not entirely
unreasonable basis that they would have told him not to do  it."

But which will be the more dangerous expeditions for  Bod?  Those that take
him from the sanctuary of the graveyard to hellish  places where no living
human has gone before, or those that take him from the  graveyard into the world
of living humans?

And what of the man Jack who  continues to seek his prey?

Being that THE GRAVEYARD BOOK has been  available for months, that Neil
Gaiman has done a world tour promoting the  book (Check him out on Youtube.), that
the book has spent months on  the NYT Bestseller List, and that there are
scores of online  discussions regarding the book's many allusions and references,
there might well seem little need for my rhapsodizing  about it.

But I cannot help myself.  THE GRAVEYARD BOOK is  just too sweet and exciting
a read for me to keep quiet  about.  The day I spent reading it (I ate it all
in one  sitting.) has been a highlight of my holidays.  And when my  spring
Nubian goat kids are born, I will be naming the  firstborn male after Nobody
Owens.

What makes it so great?

Once again, as with my favorite fantasy characters from years  past, a young
hero filled with goodness who cares about his  relationships, uses his
knowledge and gifts to battle evil and stand up for  the little guy rather than for
the sake of gaining power.  The graveyard  makes for a unique setting.  The
cast of quirky dead (and undead)  characters who raise the child are funny and
charming.  There is a  wealth of danger and adventure and humor.

"It was like every dream of falling he had ever had,  a scared and frantic
drop through space, as he headed towards the ground  below.  Bod felt as though
his mind was only big enough for one huge  thought, so, That big dog was
actually Miss Lupescu, and, I'm going  to hit the rock floor and splat, competed in
his head for  occupation."

Richie  Partington, MLIS
Richie's Picks _http://richiespicks.com_ (http://richiespicks.com/)
Moderator, _http://groups.yahoo.com/group/middle_school_lit_
(http://groups.yahoo.com/group/middle_school_lit)
_http://www.myspace.com/richiespicks_ (http://www.myspace.com/richiespicks)


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