Archive for 2008
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Featured Website–Plan a Trip to the North Pole
Posted December 5, 2008 by Juvenile ReferenceHo, ho, ho! Kids, parents, and teachers will find northpole.com an activity-packed website to visit during the Christmas holidays. Listen or read holiday stories, sing along with Santa’s Karaoke Machine, send letters to Santa and postcards to friends, meet the elves in the Elf Clubhouse, cook up festive treats in the Kitchen, and attend the Elf [...]
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Featured Website–Database of Award-Winning Children’s Literature
Posted November 5, 2008 by Juvenile ReferenceDAWCL contains almost 8,000 award-winning, English language titles that have each received one of seventy-nine awards presented in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, England, or Ireland. Most entries have summaries, and all can be searched for by reader’s age, setting, historical period, keyword, format, genre, gender of protagonist, award, year of publication, and [...]
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Creating An RSS Feed
Posted October 17, 2008 by Juvenile ReferenceWhat is an RSS feed? : Life is busy, and we all have a great deal to keep up with everyday. A useful way to keep up to date with newly posted information on this or any other blog is to set-up RSS feeds. (RSS stands for “Really Simple Syndication.”) You can “sign-up” for our [...]
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Featured Website–Jan Brett: An Illustrator with an Interactive Website
Posted October 15, 2008 by Juvenile ReferenceIf you are a Jan Brett fan or simply looking for fabulous activities to use with young readers, visit www.janbrett.com. Find literally thousands of activities from Classroom Help-a-longs, to printable games, to videos, to on screen computer games, to t-shirt transfers for home and classroom use. For the holidays, design your own Gingerbread Friend.
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Featured Website–Face Your Manga
Posted October 1, 2008 by Juvenile ReferenceOur new featured website is Face Your Manga. A manga is a Japenese genre of cartoons, comic books, and animated film. On Face Your Manga, you can create your own manga character to see what you might look like in a graphic novel. (The one in this post is my manga.) You can adjust everything [...]
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Featured Website–Utah Storyteller- Rachel Hedman
Posted September 25, 2008 by Juvenile ReferenceRachel Hedman is a Utah storyteller. She has two blogs on which she posts upcoming events and news of what is happening in the storytelling world. Check out her blogs to she what she is up to: http://www.storytellingadventures.blogspot.com (this is Rachel’s professional blog about her) and http://familyfamine.blogspot.com (this is a blog of a project Rachel [...]
