An occasional newsletter of the Education Services Department of the Congressman Frank J. Guarini Library
Education Services
Education Services Collection
About Me
The Education Services collection consists of the Curriculum Collection and Juvenile Collection. The Curriculum Collection is a circulating collection of curricula, lesson plans, teacher materials, kits and non-circulating textbooks in support of teacher education.It is on the fourth floor of the library.
The Juvenile Collection is a circulating collection of books for use by university students taking education, children’s literature and young adult literature courses. The collection contains works for youth in grades pre K-12. Fiction picture books are housed in low shelving adjacent to the Juvenile Fiction and Juvenile Non-Fiction collection. These collections are on the third floor of the library.
CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS: 14th ANNUAL LGBTQA LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE
This year’s conference will be held on Friday, October 28th, 2016 at New Jersey City University in Jersey City, New Jersey from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: Noon on September 21st, 2016
The LGBTQA College Leadership Conference Planning Committee invites proposals for workshops.
For more than 14 years, Northern New Jersey has held a regional LGBTQA college leadership conference. This year’s conference serves as a one-day educational and leadership development opportunity for college students, faculty, and staff, and the surrounding community. It will bring together several hundred participants from across the tri-state area to explore and develop the skills necessary to continue building and supporting a united and inclusive queer movement.
The conference is hosted by a consortium of colleges and universities including New Jersey City University, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Montclair State University, Ramapo College, William Paterson University.
"For Ronald Duncan, being an effective high school teacher is all about making things relatable for the students.
Duncan has been teaching math at St. Anthony High School in Jersey City for the past eight years, and in that time he's developed a methodology that focuses on a student's individual strengths, to make the sometimes daunting subject more easily accessible for his ninth to twelfth grade students."
"If he's teaching a football player for example, Duncan might use audibles and formations to help the student understand what a proper equation or formula looks like and then challenge him to see the relationship between them."
Hoboken author, Arturo O. Martinez passed away on Wednesday, April 27th, 2016.
His obituary in the Star Ledger reported:
Born in Rio Grande City, Texas, he was a graduate of Rio Grande City High School and earned a bachelor's degree in journalism at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1959. He was a U.S. Army veteran. Arturo spent more than 40 years in journalism-as a reporter, editor, critic and columnist. Prior to joining the staff of The Star-Ledger in New Jersey in 1968, he was a reporter for The Alamo Messenger in San Antonio and The Lafayette Advertiser in Louisiana. During three decades at The Star-Ledger, he held a variety of posts, including Entertainment and Features Editor for 20 years prior to his retirement in 1998. He continued to write a column on Latino arts and entertainment until 2003. While entertainment editor, Martinez served as a voter for Broadway's annual Tony Awards, a position he held for almost 18 years. His interest in the theater continued into his retirement; two of his one-act plays were produced in Hoboken. Also in his retirement, he wrote "Pedrito's World," a fictive memoir based on his recollections and family stories from South Texas. The book, published by Texas Tech University Press, received an award from the Texas Institute of Letters. A sequel was published in December. - See more at: http://obits.nj.com/obituaries/jerseyjournal/obituary.aspx?n=arturo-o-martinez&pid=179818008&fhid=17066#sthash.uULmkjaN.dpuf
Martinez had given a reading from his acclaimed memoir, Pedrito's World,(Juv. M3852p) at New Jersey City University in February, 2008.
The ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) receives reports from libraries, schools, and the media on attempts to ban books in communities across the country. We compile lists of challenged books in order to inform the public about censorship efforts that affect libraries and schools. The top ten most challenged books of 2015 include:
Looking for Alaska, by John Green (Juv.G7955L)Reasons: Offensive language, sexually explicit, and unsuited for age group.
Fifty Shades of Grey, by E. L. James Reasons: Sexually explicit, unsuited to age group, and other (“poorly written,” “concerns that a group of teenagers will want to try it”).
I Am Jazz, by Jessica Herthel and Jazz Jennings (Juv.306.76 .H574i) Reasons: Inaccurate, homosexuality, sex education, religious viewpoint, and unsuited for age group.
Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out, by Susan Kuklin (Juv.306.76 .K965) Reasons: Anti-family, offensive language, homosexuality, sex education, political viewpoint, religious viewpoint, unsuited for age group, and other (“wants to remove from collection to ward off complaints”).
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, by Mark Haddon (PR6058.A245 C87 2003) Reasons: Offensive language, religious viewpoint, unsuited for age group, and other (“profanity and atheism”).
The Holy Bible (BS185 1980 .N48) Reasons: Religious viewpoint.
Fun Home, by Alison Bechdel (PN6727 .B3757 Z46 2006) Reasons: Violence and other (“graphic images”).
Habibi, by Craig Thompson Reasons: Nudity, sexually explicit, and unsuited for age group.
Nasreen’s Secret School: A True Story from Afghanistan, by Jeanette Winter ( Juv. 371.82.W785n) Reasons: Religious viewpoint, unsuited to age group, and violence.
Two Boys Kissing, by David Levithan (Juv.6662t) Reasons: Homosexuality and other (“condones public displays of affection”).
Writers, Poets, Singer/Songwriters & Spoken Word Artists
for Tales of Our Cities 2016
8th Annual Book Festival to be Staged at Van Vorst Park on Sunday, September 25
JERSEY
CITY, N.J. March 7, 2016 – “The application is posted!” That’s the
answer to the question: “How can I apply to Tales of Our Cities – the
annual book festival in Jersey City?” Just go to the Jersey City library
website – www.jclibrary.org – and scroll down to the Tales of Our Cities portal http://www.jclibrary.org/resources/tales-of-our-cities-2016
The 8th
annual Jersey City library book festival, Tales of Our Cities 2016,
will be presented on Sunday, September 25, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Now is
the time for all authors, singer/songwriters, poets, spoken word
artists, vendors and publishers to apply.
The participant’s contract
and outreach flyer are available on the library website to download and
print, along with contact information. The participant application deadline is Monday, July 11. Please contact Elysse Sison at esison@jclibrary.org, (201) 547-4543 or by fax, (201) 656-1517.
Due
to the ongoing renovations at the Main Library, the Tales of Our Cities
book festival was not presented in 2015, and in 2014, the festival was
staged at Grove Street Plaza. For 2016, the book festival will be in familiar surroundings – the gazebo and extensive grounds of Van Vorst Park.
It's that time of year again when Congressional cost-cutters
sharpen their budget knives and go looking for under-supported federal programs
to slash or discontinue. Last year, now Speaker of the House Paul Ryan proposed
completely eliminating IMLS and with it over $200 million in funding for the
Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) and Innovative Approaches to
Literacy (IAL). Both of these programs are potentially on the chopping block
this year and it's up to you to help save them.
Library champions in Congress are now circulating "Dear
Appropriator" letters to their colleagues urging members of the powerful
Senate and House Appropriations Committees to fully fund LSTA and IAL (See the
letters here).
Please take just five minutes to contact your Representative in
the House and both of your U.S. Senators and ask them to sign these letters
(one each for LSTA and IAL in each chamber of Congress). Your help, and these
funds, make a huge difference in what libraries and librarians can do for their
patrons in every corner of the country.
These "Dear Appropriator" letters carry tremendous
weight with the Appropriations Committee. The more Members of Congress who sign
them, the more likely LSTA and IAL - and the millions of Americans they help
every year - are to survive and thrive.
Time is short! Please, contact both your Senators and
Representative now.
The 2016 Youth Media Awards will be announced at 8 a.m. on January 11, 2016, during the ALA Midwinter Meeting & Exhibition in Boston. The prestigious children’s literature prizes include the Newbery, Caldecott, Printz, and Pura Belpre (20th Anniversary) and Coretta Scott King Book Awards.
Those unable to attend in-person can tune in for the live webcast (http://ala.unikron.com/2016/)!
Winners list: John Newbery Medal for the most outstanding contribution to children’s literature:
“Last Stop on Market Street,” written by Matt de la Peña, is the 2016
Newbery Medal winner. The book is illustrated by Christian Robinson and
published by G. P. Putnam’s Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC.
Three Newbery Honor Books also were named: “The War that Saved My Life,”
written by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley and published by Dial Books for
Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC; “Roller Girl,”
written and illustrated by Victoria Jamieson and published by Dial Books
for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC; and “Echo,”
written by Pam Muñoz Ryan and published by Scholastic Press, an imprint
of Scholastic Inc.
Randolph Caldecott Medal for the most distinguished American picture book for children:
“Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World’s Most Famous Bear,”
illustrated by Sophie Blackall, is the 2016 Caldecott Medal winner. The
book was written by Lindsay Mattick and published by Little, Brown and
Company, a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc.
Four Caldecott Honor Books also were named: “Trombone Shorty,”
illustrated by Bryan Collier, written by Troy Andrews and published by
Abrams Books for Young Readers, an imprint of ABRAMS; “Waiting,”
illustrated and written by Kevin Henkes, published by Greenwillow Books,
an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers; “Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou
Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement,” illustrated by Ekua Holmes,
written by Carole Boston Weatherford and published by Candlewick Press;
and “Last Stop on Market Street,” illustrated by Christian Robinson,
written by Matt de le Peña and published by G. P. Putnam’s Sons, an
imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC.
Coretta Scott King (Author) Book Award, recognizing an African American author and illustrator of outstanding books for children and young adults:
“Gone Crazy in Alabama,” written by Rita Williams-Garcia, is the King
Author Book winner. The book is published by Amistad, an imprint of
HarperCollins Publishers.
Three King Author Honor Books were selected: “All American Boys,” by
Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely and published by Atheneum Books for
Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing
Division; “The Boy in the Black Suit,” by Jason Reynolds and published
by Atheneum Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster
Children’s Publishing Division, and “X: A Novel,” by Ilyasah Shabazz
with Kekla Magoon and published by Candlewick Press.
Coretta Scott King (Illustrator) Book Award:
“Trombone Shorty,” illustrated by Bryan Collier, is the King Illustrator
Book winner. The book was written by Troy Andrews and Bill Taylor and
published by Abrams Books for Young Readers, an imprint of ABRAMS.
Two King Illustrator Honor Books were selected: “The Book Itch: Freedom,
Truth & Harlem’s Greatest Bookstore,” illustrated by R. Gregory
Christie, written by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson and published by Carolrhoda
Books, a division of Lerner Publishing Group, Inc. and “Last Stop on
Market Street,” illustrated by Christian Robinson, written by Matt de la
Peña and published by G. P. Putnam’s Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group
USA.
Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Author Award:
“Hoodoo,” written by Ronald L. Smith, is the Steptoe author award
winner. The book is published by Clarion Books, an imprint of Houghton
Mifflin Harcourt.
Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Illustrator Award:
“Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights
Movement,” illustrated by Ekua Holmes, is the Steptoe illustrator award
winner. The book is written by Carole Boston Weatherford and published
by Candlewick Press.
Coretta Scott King – Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement:
Jerry Pinkney is the winner of the Coretta Scott King – Virginia
Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement. The award pays tribute to the
quality and magnitude of beloved children’s author Virginia Hamilton.
Jerry Pinkney’s illustrations detail a world that resonates with readers
long after the pages of a book have been turned. His five decades of
work offer compelling artistic insights into the legacy of African
American storytelling and experience. Beyond Pinkney’s technical
brilliance, his support of differentiated learning through art and of
young illustrators sets him apart as both artist and educator. His
powerful illustrations have redefined the scope of the sophisticated
picture book and its use with multiple levels of learners.
Pinkney is a NEW JERSEY author!
Michael L. Printz Award for excellence in literature written for young adults:
“Bone Gap,” written by Laura Ruby, is the 2016 Printz Award winner. The
book is published by Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins
Publishers.
Two Printz Honor Books also were named: “Out of Darkness,” by Ashley
Hope Pérez and published by Carolrhoda Lab™, an imprint of Carolrhoda
Books, a division of Lerner Publishing Group, and “The Ghosts of
Heaven,” by Marcus Sedgwick and published by Roaring Brook Press, an
imprint of Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group.
Schneider Family Book Award for books that embody an artistic expression of the disability experience:
“Emmanuel’s Dream: The True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah,” written by
Laurie Ann Thompson, illustrated by Sean Qualls and published by
Schwartz & Wade Books, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, a
division of Random House LLC, a Penguin Random House Company, New York,
wins the award for children ages 0 to 10.
“Fish in a Tree,” written by Lynda Mullaly Hunt and published by Penguin
Group, Nancy Paulsen Books, and “The War that Saved My Life,” by
Kimberly Brubaker Bradley and published by Dial Books for Young Readers,
an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC, are the winners of the
middle-school (ages 11-13).
The teen (ages 13-18) award winner is “The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B,”
written by Teresa Toten and published by Delacorte Press, an imprint of
Random House Children’s Books, a division of Random House LLC, a Penguin
Random House Company, New York.
Alex Awards for the 10 best adult books that appeal to teen audiences:
“All Involved,” by Ryan Gattis, published by Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.
“Between the World and Me,” by Ta-Nehisi Coates, published by Spiegel
& Grau, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random
House LLC.
“Bones & All,” by Camille DeAngelis, published by St. Martin’s Press.
“Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits,” by David Wong, published by Thomas Dunne Books, an imprint of St. Martin’s Press.
“Girl at War,” by Sara Nović, published by Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC.
“Half the World,” by Joe Abercrombie, published by Del Rey, an imprint
of Random House, a division of Random House LLC, a Penguin Random House
Company.
“Humans of New York: Stories,” by Brandon Stanton, published by St. Martin’s Press.
“Sacred Heart,” by Liz Suburbia, published by Fantagraphics Books Inc.
“Undocumented: A Dominican Boy’s Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the
Ivy League,” by Dan-el Padilla Peralta, published by Penguin Press, an
imprint of Penguin Random House LLC.
“The Unraveling of Mercy Louis,” by Keija Parssinen, published by Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.
Andrew Carnegie Medal for excellence in children’s video:
Weston Woods Studios, Inc., producer of “That Is NOT a Good Idea,” is
the Carnegie Medal winner. In an innovative adaptation of this
read-aloud favorite, Goose accepts an invitation to accompany Fox on a
simple stroll – or is it? Watch along with a comical chorus of goslings
as they react to this cautionary tale.
Laura Ingalls Wilder Award honors an author or
illustrator whose books, published in the United States, have made, over
a period of years, a substantial and lasting contribution to literature
for children.
The 2016 winner is Jerry Pinkney, whose award-winning works include “The
Lion and the Mouse,” recipient of the Caldecott Award in 2010. In
addition, Pinkney has received five Caldecott Honor Awards, five Coretta
Scott King Illustrator Awards, and four Coretta Scott King Illustrator
Honors. Pinkney is a NEW JERSEY author!
Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in writing for young adults:
David Levithan is the 2016 Edwards Award winner. His books include: “The
Realm of Possibility,” “Boy Meets Boy,” “Love is the Higher Law,” “How
They Met, and Other Stories,” “Wide Awake” and “Nick and Norah’s
Infinite Playlist,” all published by Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of
Random House Children’s Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC.
Levithan is a NEW JERSEY author!
May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture Award recognizing an
author, critic, librarian, historian or teacher of children’s
literature, who then presents a lecture at a winning host site.
Jacqueline Woodson will deliver the 2017 May Hill Arbuthnot Honor
Lecture. Woodson is the 2014 National Book Award winner for her New York
Times bestselling memoir, “Brown Girl Dreaming.” The author of more
than two dozen books for young readers, she is a four-time Newbery Honor
winner, a recipient of the NAACP Image Award, a two-time Coretta Scott
King Award winner and was recently named the Young People’s Poet
Laureate by the Poetry Foundation.
Mildred L. Batchelder Award for an outstanding children’s book translated from a foreign language and subsequently published in the United States:
“The Wonderful Fluffy Little Squishy” is the 2016 Batchelder Award
winner. Originally published in French in 2014 as “Le merveilleux
Dodu-Velu-Petit,” the book was written and illustrated by Beatrice
Alemagna, translated by Claudia Zoe Bedrick and published by Enchanted
Lion Books.
Three Batchelder Honor Books also were selected: “Adam and Thomas,”
published by Seven Stories Press, written by Aharon Appelfeld,
iIllustrated by Philippe Dumas and translated from the Hebrew by Jeffrey
M. Green; “Grandma Lives in a Perfume Village,” published by NorthSouth
Books, an imprint of Nordsüd Verlag AG, written by Fang Suzhen,
illustrated by Sonja Danowski and translated from the Chinese by Huang
Xiumin; and “Written and Drawn by Henrietta,” published by TOON Books,
an imprint of RAW Junior, LLC and written, illustrated and translated
from the Spanish by Liniers.
Odyssey Award for best audiobook produced for children and/or young adults, available in English in the United States:
“The War that Saved My Life,” produced by Listening Library, an imprint
of the Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group, is the 2016 Odyssey
Award winner. The book is written by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley and
narrated by Jayne Entwistle.
One Odyssey Honor Recording also was selected: “Echo,” produced by
Scholastic Audio/Paul R. Gagne, written by Pam Muñoz Ryan and narrated
by Mark Bramhall, David de Vries, MacLeod Andrews and Rebecca Soler.
Pura Belpré (Illustrator) Award honoring a Latino
writer and illustrator whose children’s books best portray, affirm and
celebrate the Latino cultural experience:
“The Drum Dream Girl,”(Juv.E585d) illustrated by Rafael López, is the Belpré
Illustrator Award winner. The book was written by Margarita Engle and
published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Three Belpré Illustrator Honor Books for illustration were selected: “My
Tata’s Remedies = Los remedios de mi tata,” illustrated by Antonio
Castro L., written by Roni Capin Rivera-Ashford and published by Cinco
Puntos Press; “Mango, Abuela, and Me,” illustrated by Angela Dominguez,
written by Meg Medina and published by Candlewick Press: and “Funny
Bones: Posada and His Day of the Dead Calaveras,” illustrated and
written by Duncan Tonatiuh and published by Abrams Books for Young
Readers, an imprint of ABRAMS.
Pura Belpré (Author) Award:
“Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings: A Memoir,” written by Margarita
Engle, is the Belpré Author Award winner. The book is published by
Atheneum Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster
Children’s Publishing Division.
Two Belpré Author Honor Books were named: “The Smoking Mirror,” written
by David Bowles and published by IFWG Publishing, Inc.; and “Mango,
Abuela, and Me,” written by Meg Medina, illustrated by Angela Dominguez
and published by Candlewick Press.
Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award for most distinguished informational book for children:
“Funny Bones: Posada and His Day of the Dead Calaveras,” written and
illustrated by Duncan Tonatiuh, is the Sibert Award winner. The book is
published by Abrams Books for Young Readers, an imprint of ABRAMS.
Four Sibert Honor Books were named: “Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina
and New Orleans,” written and illustrated by Don Brown and published by
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; “The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud
Pedersen and the Churchill Club,” by Phillip Hoose and published by
Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers; “Turning 15 on the Road to
Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March,” written by
Lynda Blackmon Lowery as told to Elspeth Leacock and Susan Buckley,
illustrated by PJ Loughran and published by Dial Books, an imprint of
Penguin Group (USA) LLC; and “Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit
of the Civil Rights Movement,” written by Carole Boston Weatherford,
illustrated by Ekua Holmes and published by Candlewick Press.
Stonewall Book Award - Mike Morgan & Larry Romans
Children’s & Young Adult Literature Award given annually to
English-language children’s and young adult books of exceptional merit
relating to the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender experience:
“George,” written by Alex Gino and published by Scholastic Press, an
imprint of Scholastic Inc., and “The Porcupine of Truth,” written by
Bill Konigsberg and published by Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of
Scholastic Inc., are the winners of the 2016 Stonewall Children’s and
Young Adult Literature Awards respectively.
Two honor books were selected: “Wonders of the Invisible World,” written
by Christopher Barzak and published by Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of
Random House Children’s Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC;
and “Sex is a Funny Word: A Book about Bodies, Feelings, and YOU,”
written by Cory Silverberg and Fiona Smyth, illustrated by Fiona Smyth
and published by Seven Stories Press.
Theodor Seuss Geisel Award for the most distinguished beginning reader book:
“Don’t Throw It to Mo!,” written by David A. Adler and illustrated by
Sam Ricks is the Seuss Award winner. The book is published by Penguin
Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA), LLC.
Three Geisel Honor Books were named: “A Pig, a Fox, and a Box,” written
and illustrated by Jonathan Fenske and published by Penguin Young
Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC; “Supertruck,” written
and illustrated by Stephen Savage and published by A Neal Porter Book
published by Roaring Brook Press, a division of Holtzbrinck Publishing
Holdings Limited Partnership; and “Waiting,” written and illustrated by
Kevin Henkes and published by Greenwillow Books, an imprint of
HarperCollins Publishers.
William C. Morris Award for a debut book published by a first-time author writing for teens:
“Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda,” written by Becky Albertalli is the
2016 Morris Award winner. The book is published by Balzer + Bray, an
imprint of HarperCollins Publisher.
Four other books were finalists for the award: “Because You’ll Never
Meet Me,” written by Leah Thomas and published by Bloomsbury Children’s
Books; “Conviction,” written by Kelly Loy Gilbert and published by
Hyperion, an imprint of Disney Book Group; “The Sacred Lies of Minnow
Bly,” written by Stephanie Oakes and published by Dial Books, an imprint
of Penguin Young Readers; and “The Weight of Feathers,” written by
Anna-Marie McLemore and published by Thomas Dunne Books, an imprint of
St. Martin’s Press.
YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults:
“Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam
War,” written by Steve Sheinkin, is the 2016 Excellence winner. The book
is published by Roaring Brook Press, an imprint of Macmillan’s
Children’s Publishing Group.
Four other books were finalists for the award: “Enchanted Air: Two
Cultures, Two Wings: A Memoir,” written by Margarita Engle and published
by Atheneum Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster
Children’s Publishing; “First Flight Around the World: The Adventures
of the American Fliers Who Won the Race,” written by Tim Grove and
published by Abrams Books for Young Readers, an imprint of ABRAMS;
“Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of
Leningrad,” written by M.T. Anderson and published by Candlewick Press;
and “This Strange Wilderness: The Life and Art of John James Audubon,”
written by Nancy Plain and published by University of Nebraska Press.
