Chihuahua alista eventos por Día Nacional del Libro

Cuentacuentos, talleres, verbenas populares, charlas y un Festival Internacional de Cortometraje, "El cine a las calles", serán parte de las actividades que se desarrollarán a partir de mañana en las instalaciones de las bibliotecas Pública Central e Infantil.

Storytelling, workshops, popular festivals, talks and International Short Film Festival, "Film to the streets" will be part of the activities taking place from tomorrow at the premises of the Central Public and Children Library.

Con motivo del Día Nacional del Libro, el gobierno del estado, a través de su programa "Chihuahua vive la cultura", desarrollará estas actividades culturales gratuitas del 9 a 12 de noviembre, dirigidas a niños y jóvenes de esta entidad.

Children's Poet Laureate

Ran across his books while doing RFID work in Children's.

Where the sidewalk ends

Ran across this book whilst processing books for RFID.

Halloween at the Library

Starting today at the Children's Room.

A man came in asking for Dear Mr. Henshaw / Beverly Cleary ; illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky.

A mother with her two daughters were looking for a PG-rated DVD; they looked at Home Alone 4, but Mum nixed it. The violence was okay, but the plot includes a relationship that clearly she did not approve of.

A father with his son, Joseph, who is in the third grade, asked for a book; recommended Cam Jansen.

It has gotten busy, and I can't keep up, but I've recommended, and as wasked about, Patricia Giff, Barbara Cohen, Robert Munsch. Books on Thanksgiving (on Halloween Day), Magic school bus.

At 3, I repaired upstairs to Reference. Decidedly different in Reference than in Children's. A few people studyuing, 6 Internet PCs in use. A patron I know came over and asked for three books:

 Men of Silk: The Hasidic Conquest of Polish Jewish Society, by Glenn Dynner. An associate professor of religion at Sarah Lawrence College. Growth and development of Hasidic movement in Eastern and East Central Europe. Glenn Dynner draws upon newly discovered Polish archival material and neglected Hebrew testimonies to illuminate Hasidism's dramatic ascendancy in the region of Central Poland during the early nineteenth century. (from Oxford Press)




Blind jump: the story of Shaike Dan, by Amos Ettinger. Found it in Suffolk.

Blind Jump is the story of the amazing exploits of Shaike Dan. During World War II, Shaike Dan volunteered to parachute behind enemy lines in Romania on behalf of British Intelligence. His jump had two objectives: to locate the prison camp where 1,400 Allied Air Force crewman, downed when bombing the Ploesti oil fields in Romania, were being held, and also to find ways to get them out of Romania so that they could go back into action and resume their contribution to the war effort. The second objective was to try to rescue Jews from Eastern Europe and get them to Palestine.

Rome and Jerusalem: the clash of ancient civilizations. Martin Goodman. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 2007.
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Clearly there is a theme running through his requests. He is one of the more interesting patrons I encounter here.

Under the Lemon Moon

Under the lemon moon / by Edith Hope Fine ; illustrated by René King Moreno.

A patron requested it.

Flotsam

What a great book! I was talking with a colleague about the weather (yesterday's rains and high tide created flooding), and told her of the detritus I saw in the Woodmere pier, where'd I'd gone during lunchtime.

We wondered whether that detritus was jetsam or flotsam. One of the definitions of flotsam is Flotsam is a children's book written and illustrated by David Wiesner. Published by Clarion/Houghton Mifflin in 2006, it was the 2007 winner of the Caldecott Medal.American Library Association: URL accessed 27 January 2007, Flotsam is David Wiesner's 3rd Caldecott Medal. ...

Calling All Cars

In Brookfield, Wis., no restaurant has triggered more calls to the police department since last year than Chuck E. Cheese's.

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Chuck E. Cheese's