This is waaay too funny!

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The 2008 summer reading children’s bibliography is online on the CYA:Home page. It’s available in PDF and Word formats.

The National Endowment for the Arts published a report on teen reading and reading skills. YALSA has written a rebuttal defining what reading is when it comes to teens. And ALA has their official response as well.

Happy Thanksgivings everyone!

Unshelved/Highsmith 2nd Trick My Bookcart contest is over and the winner’s have been announced. This is going to be so much fun next year for Oklahoma. Rally your teens and get those ideas flowing!

Sherman Alexie’s book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian won the 2007 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature.

It’s time to vote for December’s discussion book.

For children’s the nominated titles are:

• Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
• Adventures of Polo
• Clementine
• Rules

For young adult the nominated titles are:

• Hattie Big Sky
• Life As We Knew It
• Looking Glass Wars

There are two days left to suggest a titles for the children’s and young adult’s OK Book Club. Visit the forums to nominate your favorite title!
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Did you know…

When you are visiting a forum topic, you can click “Watch this Topic” and when there is a post in that topic an e-mail will be sent notifying you? Give it a try!

Heads up! McDonald’s toy prize for Happy Meals is a wind-up bee man. The toy is a tie-in with the Bee Movie that’s in theater’s now. By summer the toy could make a nice small prize.

LPI/NASA is offering FREE Web cast trainings for children’s program providers about the

Explore! Health in Space Module

http://www.lpi.usra.edu/education/explore/space_health/.

The Web casts are designed to be fun and informative,

and to ensure that participants can bring the activities and science

directly into their children’s (ages 8 to 13) programs.

Each Web cast is in two 1 and ½ hour parts, separated by a week.

• The first Web cast explores the impact of space radiation on astronauts – and children!
• The second explores how living and working in space impacts the human body – and how astronauts and children share many things when it comes to staying healthy!

Each Web cast includes a 30 minute presentation and question/answer session with a NASA medical researcher, demonstration of the hands-on activities that can be used in children’s programs, and sharing among attendees of resources and ways they may use the program.
Participants are invited to get the supplies before the Web cast so that they can make UV Man/Woman, crunch Styrofoam bones, and see what happens to Sponge-Spool-Spine when he goes into space!

Joining the Web cast is easy – really! – participants simply need to:

1. Reserve a “seat” with Becky Nelson (bnelson AT lpi.usra.edu / 281-486-2166); a maximum of 40 participants can join each Web cast.
2. Have access to a telephone (a toll-free number will be provided) for the Web cast
3. Have access to the Internet for the Web cast
4. Bring chocolate

More information will be provided to participants when they sign up to ensure that they get the most out of the experience.

Schedule of Web casts:Time (Central)
There are two (2) parts to the program.

Part 1: November 6 (Tuesday) 2:00 pm and Part 2: November 13 (Tuesday) 2:00 pm

Part 2: December 6 (Thursday) and Part 2: 1:00 pm December 13 (Thursday) 1:00 pm
Part 1: January 7 (Monday) 11:00 am and Part 2: January 14 (Monday) 11:00 am

Part 1: February 6 (Wednesday) 1:00 pm and Part 2: February 13 (Wednesday) 1:00 pm

Part 1: February 26 (Tuesday) 3:00 pm and Part 2: March 4 (Tuesday) 3:00 pm