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  • Families and Literacy
    Posted October 14, 2009 by Juvenile Reference

    Visit the Families and Literacy blog today.  Busy parents, grandparents, and teachers will find reliable resources and information in a variety of forms, including literacy tips, book lists, websites, media, research, and a discussion forum, to help make literacy part of everyday family life.

    Contributors to the blog include academic and youth-serving librarians,  BYU students and [...]

  • Homework Helper–Finding Social Studies Books & Websites
    Posted October 5, 2009 by Juvenile Reference

    To find books in the Juvenile Literature Collection on social studies topics:

    Open the HBLL homepage.
    Select “Library Catalog” under Unique Collections at BYU
    Below the main search bar choose “Advanced Keyword Search”
    Go to the pull-down menu labeled search all and type in a term that [...]

  • Poptropica: Learn While You Play
    Posted March 17, 2009 by Juvenile Reference

    Poptropica.com is swiftly becoming a popular, safe, and unique online game for youngsters. Poptropica offers kids (and parents) a dependable online playground to interact anonymously with other users, fight villains who are apart of B.A.D (Bald And Dangerous organization), and learn interesting facts about our world.
    Newcomers to the site must create a character to enter [...]

  • CCBC–Cooperative Children’s Book Center
    Posted January 28, 2009 by Juvenile Reference

    The CCBC (Cooperative Children’s Book Council) website is an authoritative source for “books, ideas, and expertise in the field of children’s and young adult literature” produced by the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.  Teachers, librarians, early childhood care providers, and college students will find designated areas to guide them to useful articles, [...]

  • 2009 ALSC Award Winners
    Posted January 26, 2009 by Juvenile Reference

    This morning at 9am, the new ALSC award winning books for 2009 were announced!  Below we have listed the Caldecott Medal and Honor Books; the Newbery Medal and  Honor Books; the Printz Medal and Honor Books; and the Sibert Medal and Honor Books.  Please click here to get the complete list of awards and the [...]

  • Plan a Trip to the North Pole
    Posted December 5, 2008 by Juvenile Reference

    Ho, 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 [...]

  • Database of Award-Winning Children’s Literature
    Posted November 5, 2008 by Juvenile Reference

    DAWCL 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 [...]

  • Jan Brett: An Illustrator with an Interactive Website
    Posted October 15, 2008 by Juvenile Reference

    If 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.

  • Face Your Manga
    Posted October 1, 2008 by Juvenile Reference

    Our 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 [...]

  • Utah Storyteller- Rachel Hedman
    Posted September 25, 2008 by Juvenile Reference

    Rachel 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 [...]