What Sally’s Reading

Celebrate Libraries! As you may know, School Library Month has always been April, to coincide with National Library Week. This year’s theme is “Communities thrive @ your library®” and the spokesperson is Laurie Halse Anderson. Sponsored by the American Association of School Librarians (AASL), the theme of the first year, 1985, was “Where Learning Never Ends: The School Library Media Center.” For more information, visit: http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/aasl/aaslissues/slm/schoollibrary.cfm National Library Week is April 11 – 17, 2010, again with the theme “Communities thrive @ your library®.” The National Library Week Honorary Chair is Neil Gaiman. Visit: http://www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/offices/pio/natlibraryweek/nlw.cfm Drizzle by Kathleen Van Cleve is about an extraordinary farm. They grow chocolate rhubarb (yum!), giant rhubarb, medicinal rhubarb and regular rhubarb. Every Monday at 1 pm it rains and visitors ride the umbrella ride during the rainfall. But now, the rain has stopped. Polly (11), one of the children of the owners, is deeply concerned. What has happened to the magic? Polly needs to find her gift and hope it will rescue the farm. She can’t imagine living anywhere else. I’m really enjoying this quirky story and can’t wait to find out what happens next. 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.