Sunday, March 15, 2015
Library Closed for 03/16/15
Because of a unexpected water leak the library will be closed tomorrow 03/16/15. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Library Closed on 03/15/15
Due to water issues the library is closed today. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Tuesday, March 3, 2015
Review of The Animal Book by Steve Jenkins
The word
“amazing” is highly over used. However,
if you peruse a new book in the children’s collection called The Animal Book: A Collection of the
Fastest, Fiercest, Toughest, Cleverest, Shyest---and Most Surprising Animals on
Earth by Steve Jenkins, you will find that its appropriate use is for this
kind of experience. The work is a stunning masterpiece. You will be hooked when you read the very
first page.
When Steve
Jenkins was 6 years old, he was given a copy of Life magazine. He proceeded
to cut out illustrations of giant tortoises and blue-footed boobies. He made his own journal with the pictures, glue
and graph paper. He has not looked back
since.
Every
picture of each animal is unique, playful and irresistible in this volume. The
back of the book is devoted to how Steve creates a book and what paper he uses
to make his pictures (e.g. The blue whale is make with a blue ink, a plank of
wood, recycled newspaper and paper from Japan.)
One can open
this book to any page and be captivated.
Steve does all of the art work and checks and re-checks his facts for
accuracy. His wife, Robin Page, is a
frequent collaborator with him.
CARL has 19
of Steve’s books including a favorite of many, Actual Size. (The cover of
the book features a gorilla’s hand---substantially larger than a child’s hand
or an adult hand.)
Please come
to the library soon to borrow this book as well as some of Steve’s other
books. You will be delighted!
Monday, March 2, 2015
Knock Knock: My Dad’s Dream for Me by Daniel Beaty and Bryan Collier
Every
morning, I play a game with my father.
He goes KNOCK KNOCK on my door, and I pretend to be asleep till he gets
right next to the bed. And, my papa, he tells me, “I love you.”
So begins Knock Knock: My Dad’s Dream for Me by
Daniel Beaty and Bryan Collier, illustrator.
Winner of the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award for 2014, the book is
the story of a young boy who wakes up one morning to find his father gone. The boy feels loss because of the separation
from his father.
This is a
most unfortunate circumstance that happens often in American society. Although
this separation is due to the father’s incarceration, there are many men who
are separated from their children due to divorce or for reasons of making a
livelihood for the family.
This book is
particularly appropriate for military fathers who because of their service
requirements are often away from their children.
Loss is felt
due to the separation of the father figure.
The book can give a father some ideas of what he can do to minimize this
separation anxiety. Other books
illustrated by Bryan Collier are: Dave
the potter: artist, poet, slave; Lift every voice and sing; Lincoln and
Douglass: an American friendship, and Martin’s big words: the life of Martin
Luther King, Jr. There are
additional titles as well at CARL.
Come soon
and see them all.
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