Teen Video Contest for the Summer Reading Program!
I am excited about Nebraska’s participation in the Collaborative Summer Library Program’s (CSLP) video challenge to teens. Teens can create a video (30-90 seconds) promoting the upcoming summer reading program “You Are Here.” The video chosen to represent Nebraska will win the teen(s) $250 and their public library $100.
Be sure to let your teens know that anyone acting in the video must fill out and submit a “Model Release Form” with their Nebraska entry form. Rules, entry form, how to enter, and more information can be found [obsolete link removed] here, if you have additional questions, please call or email me. Don’t worry if you do not see Nebraska listed yet on the CSLP
website, we will soon be included on the list. I can’t wait to see what Nebraska teens create!
I just finished
Tall Tales by Jeff Smith, a reissue of
Stupid-Stupid Rat-Tails. It is now in color and great fun to read. Smiley Bone and Bartleby take three young Bone Scouts out for an overnight in the woods. Storytelling by Smiley enchants two of them, but not the third. Later that night the skeptical young Bone puts on the big hat the leader wears, and has a lengthy dream about Big Johnson Bone and how he endeavored to overcome the Rat Creatures, their Queen and their Prince to save the animals of a valley. It is quite a Tall Tale!
(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.)
