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Month: July 2005
Great Library Site for Kids
The Kids’ Pages at the Enoch Pratt Free Library is an amazing website that opens with a silly video of a purple cat. The site offers e-stories, lists of great books, library programming, and cool links. it has a completely kid-focused feel to it that I haven’t seen before in children’s library sites. Wonderful!
Multnomah County Book Lists
Multnomah County Library’s Readers’ Choice! is a great collection of booklists for kids. From infants through eighth graders, the lists cover specific ages, themes, and award winners.
Bloomsbury Publishing
Bloomsbury USA has a children’s section where you can see their new releases and search their catalog by age.
Amelia Rules
Amelia Rules is a great graphic novel series for children. But don’t take my word for it! Visit their dynamic site where you can read a sample, examine reviews, and of course buy the books.
Text Bullying
StopTextBully is a site that focuses on bullying done by phone, chat, and email. They have specific sections that cover the different types of text bullying that happen. Then the site offers tips on getting the bully to stop, what to do if it doesn’t stop, who to talk to, and prevention techniques.
Text bullying is becoming more and more common for kids. From rude flaming on blogs to threats by email, adults in their lives need to know how to respond to this issue.
CBC Kids Games
CBC Kids Games offers fun online games for kids like snowboarding, BMX biking, handball, surfing, and trampoline. They are all safe for children, so this is a great site to send kids to when they want to play games online.
Rowling's Response
Rowling may keep writing for children
I was thrilled to see Rowling’s vehement response to being told that she was going to become a writer of adult books:
“Absolute garbage! I have said many times that if I remain a children’s author forever – which I may well do – I will never see this as being a lesser, easier or less ‘serious’ career than writing for adults,” she wrote on her personal website.
Teen Authors
The Christian Science Monitor has an article on When the very young write that first big book. The article features the latest teen author sensation, Helen Oyeyemi, author of The Icarus Girl.
Waking Brain Cells 