Winner: 

A Ball for Daisy, written and illustrated by Chris Raschka  Call number:  813 R18312bd

Honor Books:

Blackout, written and illustrated by John Rocco  Call number: coming soon!

Grandpa Green, written and illustrated by Lane Smith Call number 813 Sm61419gg

Me … Jane, written and illustrated by Patrick McDonnell Call number: 813 M1466111m

 The Dolly Gray Award recognizes high quality fiction/biographical books for children, adolescents, and young adults that authentically portray individuals with developmental disabilities. Special Needs Project, a worldwide leader in the distribution of books related to disabilities, co-sponsors this award.

Fran Prezant, disability consultant, author, presenter, and Dolly Gray Award panelist notes, “Engaging books that feature people with disabilities as individuals with personalities, strengths and talents as part of the story line, have the exponential power to change attitudes and promote inclusion in education, jobs and community life. These are important, not only for young readers with and without disabilities, but for parents and teachers who read books to them and model societal attitudes through words and actions. This year, it is wonderful to see so many positive contributions to the literature choices compared to a decade ago when people with disabilities were rarely featured in positive ways if at all, in children’s books. The Dolly Gray Award has been a positive vehicle to call attention to this and authors and progressive publishers should be commended and encouraged to put more of these books into the hands of readers.”

New this year is the Dolly Gray Children’s Literature Award Special Collection at the Harold B. Lee Library on the Brigham Young University campus in Provo, Utah. This collection will house all books considered for the award since its inception in 2000, and is likely to be the most complete collection of children’s books that include individuals with developmental disabilities. A list of all books eligible for the award, procedures, and submission guidelines are available on the DADD website:  http://daddcec.org/Awards/DollyGrayAwards.aspx.

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To find the Dolly Gray books, please search “Dolly Gray Award” in the books and more search on the library homepage: www.lib.byu.edu.  The current collection contains books nominated for the 2012 award, award winners and nominated titles from previous years will be added in the months to come so keep checking back.

The mobile academy: mLearning for higher education by Clark Quinn.  San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2012.  Call number: LB 2395.7 .Q56 2012

This books offers information on ways that mobile devices can be effectively used in higher education.

Getting smart: how digital learning is changing the world by Tom Vander Ark.  San Francisco: Josey-Bass, 2012.  Call number: LB 1028.5 .V26 2012

Shares how both online and in-person learning can be used to address students learning needs and prepare them for their economic futures.

Preserving the public in public schools: visions, values, conflicts, and choices by Phil Boyle.  Lanham, Md. Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2012.  Call number: LA 217.2 .B695 2012

An exploration of the purpose of public schools and how the competing visions of education shape our school environments.

Beyond learning by doing: theoretical currents in experiential education by Jay W. Roberts.  New York: Routledge, 2012.  Call number LB 1027.23 .R63 2012

Looking at the power of “learning-by-doing” including at its history and theoretical construct.

Produced by by Makepeace Productions in partnership with Cultural Survival and Interactive Knowledge with funding from the Independent Television Service (ITVS) and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB),  the website Our Mother Tongues provides interesting information about American’s native languages including:

- LANGUAGE MAP: Explore Native American language programs from Alaska to North Carolina.

- VOICES: Meet heroic American Indian first-language speakers and teachers, and hear from dedicated second-language learners.

- SEND ePOSTCARD: Send an e-greeting in a Native American language to entertain friends and raise awareness about America’s indigenous languages and the people striving to save them.

- VIDEO CLIPS: View additional footage from We Still Live Here; learn about cultural clues embedded in languages, and hear from American Indian leaders about the importance of learning
one’s mother tongue.

- BLOG: Read stories and share your own.

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Wonders of the world by Philip Steele.  New York: Kingfisher 2011.  Call number 930 St32w 2011

From the ancient to the modern this book uncovers the world’s greatest marvels from the Hanging Gardens of Babylon to the Three Gorges Dam in China.

Nurse, soldier, spy: the story of Sarah Edmonds, a Civil War hero by Marissa Moss illustrated by John Hendrix.  New York: Abrams Books, 2011.  Call number 923.5 Ed57m 2011

At age nineteen Sarah Emma Edmonds disguised herself as a man to fight in the civil war where she distinguished herself by services as a nurse and a spy.

Bugs A to Z by Caroline Lawton.  New York: Scholastic, 2011.  Call number 411 L448b 2011

Chocked full of creepy crawly bug facts all organized from A to Z

How they croaked: the awful ends of the awfully famous by Georgia Bragg.  New York: Walker & Company, 2011.  Call number 920 B725h 2011

Revealing the messy details of how nineteen famous men and women died.

Filmakers Library Online provides award-winning documentaries with relevance across the curriculum—race and gender studies, human rights, globalization and global studies, multiculturalism, international relations, criminal justice, the environment, bioethics, health, political science and current events, psychology, arts, literature, and more. It presents points of view and historical and current experiences from diverse cultures and traditions world-wide. This release now provides 941 titles, equaling approximately 746 hours.

You can find it on the library databases A-Z list, or the direct url is:  http://dbs.lib.byu.edu/film