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The Aurora Public Library announces the E-reader web page for young children. Children ages 3 and up can log onto the page from home or in the library to choose a picture book site to read, view, or listen to books. Books are available in English, Spanish, French, and other languages. Children in the Library [...]

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http://www.palmdps.act.edu.au/resource_centre/info_lit/dewey_charts.htm Dewey Charts
http://www.deweybrowse.org/ Dewey Browse, Web Sites Classified by the Dewey Decimal Classification System for Grades K-12
 

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From LM NET
Follett, Sagebrush, BTSB, Mackin and Titlewave have lists of all the awards.
websites: http://www.mcelmeel.com/curriculum/bookawards.html
http://www.cynthialeitichsmith.com/newreadingd.htm#alabama
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/awards.htm#R
http://www.ilfonline.org/Units/Associations/aime/Programs/awards.htm
http://www.dawcl.com
http://www.coe.uga.edu/gcba/

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Teen Blogging in Public Libraries
Based on responses from a PUBYAC inquiry December 2005
Teens these days are blogging in My Space, Live Journal, Blogger, Blogspot and others, where they have freedom of speech. Concerns to consider with a public library blog: Should the blog be monitored for content and who will monitor it? Would teens use [...]

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Fun Stuff!
Free Bookplates! By generous artists – to print off – http://www.myhomelibrary.org/bookplates.html
Books and Literature Preschool Crafts and Activities from First- school – Come and have fun with picture books for toddlers, preschool, kindergarten and adaptable for first grade. Visit a subject to find recommended children’s literature tied to activities that include easy instructions and a [...]

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Good Multicultural/Diverse Books
Ajmera, Maja — multicultural books of photography about international children at play and at holidays Ancona, George – Carnaval
Chambers, Catherine – Carnival
Chancellor, Deborah – Holiday! Celebration Days Around the World
Cooper, Ilene – Jewish Holidays all Year Round: a Family Treasury
Douglas, Lloyd G. – Let’s get Ready for Passover
Gardeski, Christina Mia Diwali Ghazi, Suhaib [...]

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Popcorn Storytime Program
Books:
Clara Ann Cookie Go to Bed by Harriet Ziefert
Heatwave by Helen Kettleman
If You Take a Mouse to the Movies by Laura Numeroff
Not now!” said the cow / by Joanne Oppenheim
Pickles to Pittsburgh: the Sequel to Cloudy With a
Chance of Meatballs by –Judi Barrett
Popcorn by Alex Moran
Popcorn at the Palace by Emily Arnold McCully
Popcorn [...]

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3 April Fools Day BooKs (no joking!)
“April Foolishness”
It’s April Fool’s Day in this rhyming picture book by Teresa Bateman. One by one his grandchildren run into the farmhouse to warn grandpa of a disaster – the cow stepped on a goose, the chickens are loose, and more. No matter what they say, grandpa remains calm. [...]

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Easter Books – 3 cuties!
Owen’s Marshmallow Chick
Owen is a little mouse with a big appetite in this delightful Easter board book by Kevin Henkes. Owen says each kind of candy in his Easter basket is “my favorite” and promptly eats all of the jelly beans, gum drops, buttercream eggs and the big chocolate bunny, but [...]

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I’M A FIRE FIGHTER
(http://www.preschooleducation.com/sfire.shtml )
Tune: “Mulberry Bush”
This is the way I pull on my boots,
Pull on my boots, pull on my boots.
This is the way I pull on my boots.
I’m a fire fighter!
This is the way I drive the fire truck This is the way I squirt the water This is the way I climb [...]

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