Teen Tech Week Begins March 6!
The theme is “Mix & Mash @ your library” for this year’s Teen Tech Week. You can register if you want to, look at some program ideas and publicity tools, visit the FAQ if you have questions, and more – just go
here. You can also find out when Teen Tech Week is planned for upcoming years. My favorite program idea on their web page is: Cell Phone Novels. A collaborative writing project where each teen writes one line of text and sends it on to the next teen. (Remember when we used to do this with pen and paper?) Cell phones will make it more fun.
I recently read the Caldecott Medal winner
A Sick Day for Amos McGee, written by Philip C. Stead and illustrated by Erin E. Stead. I hadn’t seen this book before it won the award and I was curious about it. It is a fun story about a zookeeper who goes to work every day and spends time playing chess, reading a story or other activities with some of the animals. One day he stays home sick, so the animals decide to visit him. It is a quiet book about caring. I loved looking for the mouse and/or bird in many of the illustrations. They add another level of interest to the book. Let me know what your patrons think of it.
(The Nebraska Library Commission receives free copies of children’s and young adult books for review from a number of publishers. After review, the books are distributed free to Nebraska school and public libraries.)
