“Library Links”
Every day I am in the office I read the emails from YALSA-BK, a mail group sponsored by the Young Adult Library Services Association of ALA. Last month the Batavia Public Library of Illinois shared a terrific family program with us. Last year they held a miniature golf tournament inside the library! Visit their web
page to see photos of their event and it can get you started on ideas for your own family golf program. Theirs is obviously a Halloween event, but you could hold it anytime that works for you. Another library shared their Flickr
account photos of their event, too. They used some different objects to guide the players through the course. Maybe your local Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts and/or 4-H Clubs can come up with some good ideas for you. Looks like fun!
More by I. C. Springman is a picture book that has a few words on each page combined with the extraordinary illustrations by Brian Lies to give readers the concepts of “more” and “less,” and maybe a bit of a lesson about greed. The magpie continues to gather more and more shiny things until it is too much. Then the mice step in to help him out of his mess.
(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, via the Regional Library Systems, to Nebraska school and public libraries.)
