Re: [LM_NET] LM_NET Digest - 28 May 2010 to 30 May 2010 (#2010-867)

[Marcia Russo <marcirus1@GMAIL.COM>]

The Book Thief

This book just blew me away! Just thought I'd mention it.

Marcia

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> Topics of the day:
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>  1. Richie's Picks: BRONTORINA
>  2. FYI:  More creative librarians! (2)
>  3. Richie's Picks: IT'S A BOOK
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> Date:    Sat, 29 May 2010 12:58:46 -0400
> From:    Richie Partington <BudNotBuddy@AOL.COM>
> Subject: Richie's Picks: BRONTORINA
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> Richie's Picks: BRONTORINA by James Howe and  Randy Cecil, ill.,=20
> Candlewick, August 2010, 32p., ISBN:  978-0-7636-4437-6
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> "There will come a time when everybody who is lonely will be  free to sing=
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> and dance and love.
> There will come a time when every evil that we know will be an  evil that=
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> we can rise above."
> -- Frank Zappa
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> =E2=80=9CIt is just a fact. The men go off and fight the wars and fly  the=
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> airplanes and come back and help design and build and test them. The fact
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> that=20
> women are not in this field is a fact of our social order." -- John Glenn =
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> (1962) as quoted in ALMOST ASTRONAUTS by Tanya Lee Stone
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> "Each Junior/Senior may invite one guest.  Your  guest should meet the=20
> following criteria:
> -may be in grade 9 or 10 at Itawamba Agricultural High  School
> -may be in grade 9-12 at another high school
> -may be a college-age student
> -must be of the opposite sex." -- School district policy  (2010) on prom=20
> dates in the Mississippi high school where Constance McMillen  wanted to
> ta=
> ke=20
> her girlfriend to the prom.=20
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> "That four hundred acres is good land, all right, but it's a  white man's=
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> kind of land, too expensive for you.  Why, it wasn't so long  ago it was=20
> against the law for a negra, I don't care how white-looking, to even  own=
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> farmland in the state of Mississippi, and here you are talking about
> buying=
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> Hollenbeck land?"
> -- the white banker, B.R. Tillman, in THE LAND by Mildred  Taylor
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> As he spoke from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, might  Martin have=20
> really dreamed that some young child of color toddling around  out there
> at=
>  that=20
> very moment would come to embrace The Dream and grow up  to become=20
> President of the United States?  I can only imagine that he  did. =20
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> Barack's election is unquestionably an  inspiration.  And, yet, the path
> to=
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> self-actualization -- to becoming  everything that a child is capable of=20
> becoming, irregardless  of his or her gender, skin color, sexual
> orientatio=
> n,=20
> family economic  condition, or physical limitations -- remains a path that=
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> is so often booby  trapped every step of the way with the nonsense of=20
> naysayers and  the accumulated prejudices built of ignorance  that are
> pass=
> ed down=20
> from generation to generation. =20
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> "Brontorina had a dream.
> "'I want to dance!'"
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> And so it is, that BRONTORINA, a whimsical  picturebook tale about a=20
> dinosaur who has hopes of becoming a  ballerina, is a marvelous story
> throu=
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> which children can similarly come  to imagine achieving what others might
> c=
> laim=20
> to be the  impossible.
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> "'She is too big!'
> "'And she does not have the right shoes!'"
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> I know these two girl characters at Madame Lucille's Dance  Academy for=20
> Girls and Boys!  They are the naysayers.  I bet  anyone who has lived
> throu=
> gh=20
> middle school and high school will readily  recognize the pair.
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> Fortunately for Brontorina, Madame Lucille is not a  one-size-fits-all=20
> ballet teacher.  After things don't at first work  out, Madame comes to
> the=
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> realization that accommodations are  necessary in order to have an
> enormous=
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> dinosaur succeed in doing those  leaps and poses.
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> Illustrator Randy Cecil contributes huge dollops of humor and  heart to
> the=
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> story with his depictions of the humongous tangerine-colored  brontosaurus=
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> banging her head on...err...through the ceiling, and narrowly  averting=20
> various other potential disasters as she strives to dance  amidst the
> other=
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> students.
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> And in the end -- thanks to the support of those  characters who believe
> in=
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> acceptance and inclusion -- hope triumphs and  potential is fulfilled.
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> "Now Madame Lucille's dance academy had room for  everyone.
> "And it all began with a dream."
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> Bravo!
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> Richie  Partington, MLIS
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> Date:    Sat, 29 May 2010 14:28:26 -0500
> From:    BettyTX <bhamilt@HUGHES.NET>
> Subject: FYI:  More creative librarians!
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> For a nice little break.
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Da_uzUh1VT98&feature=3Dplayer_embedded
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> Date:    Sat, 29 May 2010 20:31:14 +0000
> From:    Josephine Dervan <dervan@OPTONLINE.NET>
> Subject: Re: FYI:  More creative librarians!
>
> The co-founder of LM=5FNET=2C Mike Eisenberg=2C is Dean Emeritus of that=
>  school and featured in this cute video=2E=3E For a nice little break=2E=
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> =3Dplayer=5FembeddedJosephine Dervan=2C MLS=A0-Adjunct InstructorSchool =
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> =2EnetHe who has a library and a garden=2C wants for nothing- Cicero
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> Date:    Sat, 29 May 2010 23:34:33 -0400
> From:    Richie Partington <BudNotBuddy@AOL.COM>
> Subject: Richie's Picks: IT'S A BOOK
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> Richie's Picks: IT'S A BOOK by Lane Smith,  Roaring Brook, August 2010,
> 32p., ISBN: 978-1-59643-606-0
>
> "Words in papers, words in books
> Words on TV, words for  crooks
> Words of comfort, words of peace
> Words to make the fighting  cease
> Words to tell you what to do
> Words are working hard for you
> Eat  your words but don't go hungry
> Words have always nearly hung  me"
>  -- Tom Tom Club, "Wordy Rappinghood"
>
> Remember the big to-do in certain  quarters over a young character's
> innocent use of the word  "scrotum" in Susan Patron's Newbery Medal-winning
> THE
> HIGHER POWER OF  LUCKY?  Well, that's what came to mind this week at Book
> Expo
> as I  listened to a bookseller telling me how  she is sure that none of her
> school library  customers will be buying Lane Smith's delightful,
> literacy-promoting  picturebook IT'S A BOOK.  As with the Patron book, the
> supposed
> controversy involves a word.
>
> The deal here is that one of the story's three animal  characters is
> identified and depicted as a jackass (male donkey)  and that Lane then
> subtly
> employs a humorous play on the  word (being that the other dictionary
> meaning of
> jackass is  "fool.")
>
> I am sure that if a bookseller has convinced  himself or herself that
> school library customers won't be buying the book,  then he or she will
> inevitably become part of the same process of  self-censorship that certain
> booksellers and school librarians practiced  with the Patron book.  And
> that's a
> shame because if  this one word was not in IT'S A BOOK then everybody
> would,
> instead, be talking about its substantial award potential and its capacity
> for encouraging kids to get away from the computer and pick up a  book.
>
>
> "How do you scroll down?
> "I don't.  I turn the page.  It's a  book."
>
>
>  IT'S A BOOK is a fun little story about a monkey  who is reading a book
> and the baffled jackass who is asking him questions  about how it works.
>
>
> "Can it text?
> "No.
> "Tweet?
> "No.
> "Wi-Fi?
> "No.
> "Can it do this?  ZOOT
> "No...it's a book."
>
>
> Then, when the monkey persuades him to actually look at  the book, Jackass
> becomes totally engaged in the story and does not want to  return it.
>
> And so the monkey prepares to go to the library (where he  can borrow
> another book) and the jackass tells him, "Don't worry, I'll  charge it up
> when
> I'm done!"
>
> The mouse character, who earlier appears visually (as  part of another play
> on words), but who has -- to this point -- been  silent, responds:
>
> "You don't have to...it's a book, Jackass."
>
> Now, if I am a kid who hears about this book and wants  to check it out --
> and I am betting that IT'S A BOOK is  going to get a considerable amount of
> press (in addition to the  great trailer already posted on Amazon) -- then
> what am I going to  think as far as its absence from my elementary or
> middle
> school library.  Again, this is an exceptional picturebook by an  A-list
> award-winning, best-selling author/illustrator; a book that  is promoting
> literacy and poking fun at those people who are forever glued  to their
> computer
> screens.
>
> I'm quite curious to see how this one will play out.   Especially when IT'S
> A BOOK starts showing up on a bunch of Best of the  Year lists.  Including
> mine.
>
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Marcia Russo
Library/Media Specialist
Laurel Hill Primary School
Mt. Pleasant, SC 29466
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