Teen Read Week
The 2004 Teen Read Week theme focuses on horror books with “It’s Alive @ Your Library.” The week will run October 17-23. ALA’s site has information for people doing Teen Read Week for the first time, as well as links to horror sites.

Pages of Discovery
This is a pdf file (so you will need Adobe Acrobat to read it) that offers a list of recommended titles to use with the Discover New Trails @ Your Library Summer Reading Program that Wisconsin and several other states are doing this summer. It was compiled by Megan Schliesman at the CCBC, so you know it contains wonderful titles.

Get Caught Reading
The Get Caught Reading site offers a great section on the power of reading to children with quotes like the following:
“Early reading experiences are now recognized as being of such importance that the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that “pediatricians prescribe reading activities along with other instructions given to parents at the time of well-child visits.” The President of the Academy, Dr. Robert E. Hannemann, stated: “We strongly recommend daily reading to children from six months of age.”

Dilbert.com>The Official Dilbert Website
Check out today’s Dilbert!

The Miami Herald — Author who helped kids read dies at 91
Syd Hoff is dead at age 91. His Danny and the Dinosaur is still one of the books I continually hand to little boys learning to read.

cafe logs
If you are like me and always intend to go to the YA Authors Cafe on Tuesday evenings, but never quite make it, then you are in luck! The Cafe keeps logs that you can read after the chat is over.

Literature for Children
The State University System of Florida offers this site filled with children’s literature from 1850 to 1950. The literature is scanned into pdf files containing the full text of the books.

MSNBC – “I Dare You”
Newsweek interview with Madeleine L’Engle that mentions the Wrinkle in Time movie in passing, but mostly speaks to her faith.

Coming Soon! – Latest News
“Nickelodeon Movies and Paramount Pictures today announced that they have jointly acquired the motion-picture rights to Duck for President.”
Hurrah! I really loved this picture book by Doreen Cronin, the third in the series that started with Click, Clack, Moo. It is one of those books that kids and adults both enjoy, but on different levels. Great fun to read aloud too!