Science Fiction and Fantasy Bibliography is an online bibliography of books for children. Head directly to the advanced search section where you can search by title, author, or series. Even nicer, you can specify specific genre type, nationality, age level, grade level, and how highly recommended the books are. Only after you have done one of these searches will you realize how large the bibliography is! It has been compiled by Linda Day from the University of Guelph Library who has done an incredibly detailed job.
Month: July 2005
School and Public Library Partnerships
ALA | School & Public Library Cooperative Activities is an ALSC site that demonstrates best practices in school and public library cooperation. The site offers information on existing cooperative programs, a bibliography and a collection of exemplary web sites.
Read Aloud!
Read Aloud Virginia has a great website filled with information and inspiration for parents to read aloud to their children. “It’s the most important 20 minutes of your child’s day.” Hurrah!
The site offers links to read aloud information, tips on reading aloud, and several lists of great books to read aloud.
Classic Kid Games
Kidscape offers some great classic logic games online. Games include hangman, tetris, car jam, tic-tac-toe, and tile games.
Scholar's Blog
Scholar’s Blog is a new blog that focuses on fantasy fiction from Tolkien to Rowling.
Alfred Martino
Alfred Martino: Author, Entrepreneur is the author of the nwe Pinned, a young adult novel about wrestling. The book has been nominated for YALSA’s Best Books for Young Adults and the Quills Award.
Abusing Harry Potter
A little wild about a supersized teen
Let the attacks on Rowling’s writing officially commence! I am always amazed at how badly some people take this woman’s success. While I agree that it would have been nice to have a protagonist who was not a white male, it is too late to bemoan that fact now. The article ends with:
“It isn’t mindless knocking of someone extraordinarily successful. If anything, it would probably help Rowling to be seen as a normal person like the rest of us who can make mistakes. If we make her more human, perhaps she’ll feel able to come out of the prison we have put her in by having been so ridiculous and phony in our envy-tinged, blindly accepting reception of everything she does. Let’s ease the person who wrote three of the best children’s books ever down off her pedestal, so she can breathe.”
Yeah, right, it’s for her own good that she needs to be knocked down a few pegs.
Hope everyone enjoys their new copies of Harry Potter on Saturday!
Will of the Empress
The Will of the Empress by Tamora Pierce is due out in November. I was lucky enough to snag an ARC at ALA.
This novel returns us to the beloved characters of Briar, Daja, Sandry and Tris who have already been featured in two cycles of books by Pierce. The four of them are reunited after their separate travels but they no longer have the same connection, magical and personal, than they did before. They worry that all of the experiences they have had in their travels will change the way that the other three view them, so they shut themselves off from one another.
Sandry, a wealthy noble, needs to visit some land holdings she inherited from her mother in a neighboring land and the other three are sent along as her escort. When they arrive in Namorn, they find a royal court seething with intrigue where the Empress wishes only for Sandry and her friends to remain there forever.
This novel is wonderful filled with great adventure, magic, complex villains, and favorite characters. The settings are vivid and the situations are complicated. Recommend this to teens who have read the first two series and make sure to purchase it where Tamora Pierce’s books are popular. It is sure to be a well-received addition.
Game On
Game On: Games in Libraries is a blog that focuses on offering video games and programming involving video games in public libraries. Our library will begin offering programming for teens using consoles in the fall. We already circ PC games and will consider doing console games in the future after we determine which consoles are popular in our community.
Waking Brain Cells 