Student Driven Book Awards

From the Bank Street College of Education: Teachers and Librarians! Make Selection of Two Bank Street Children's Book Awards Part of Your Elementary Curriculum   Want your students to practice their reasoning, persuasive speaking, and sharpen their visual skills while participating in  selection of Bank Street’s Center for Children’s Literature’s annual best picture and best science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) books? First and Second Grade classes may participate in the selection of the Irma Simonton Black and James H. Black Award for Excellence in Children’s Literature (Irma Black Award). The award goes to an outstanding picture book for young children – a book in which text and illustrations are inseparable, each enhancing and enlarging on the other to produce a singular whole. The Irma Black Award is unusual in that children are the final judges of the winning book. Register here. Learn more here about last year's award and the award curriculum.   Note we will send the 2020 voting link to new registrants in early spring. Third and Fourth Grade classes are invited to jury the Cook Prize.  The Cook Prize honors the best STEM book of the year published for children eight to ten. It is the only national children’s choice award honoring a STEM title. Register here. Learn more about last year's award and the award curriculum.  The 2020 voting link will be sent to registrants in  early spring.    Previous Winners: https://www.bankstreet.edu/library/center-for-childrens-literature/irma-black-award/past-winners/

Thanksgiving books and teacher materials and thoughts

Thanksgiving can be a perplexing time of year for educators.

Do we endorse the Thanksgiving Myth of a happy carefree dinner celebration (was there ever such a thing?)  and Plymouth Rock?

Deconstructing the Myths: The First Thanksgiving

http://oyate.org/index.php/resources/43-resources/thanksgiving

Are we cognizant of Native Americans, their culture and history?

American Indians in Children’s Literature

http://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/

Images of Indians in Children’s Books

http://imagesofindiansinchildrensbooks.blogspot.com/

Oyate criteria for Evaluating Books

http://oyate.org/index.php/resources/41-resources/how-to-tell-the-difference

http://oyate.org/index.php/resources/42-resources/oyate-s-additional-criteria

Here are a few book suggestions some of which  are on display now in the Juvenile Collection on the 3^rd floor of the Guarini Library-

Grimes, Nikki                     Thanks a Million                                                  juv.811.54.G862t

Jules, Jacqueline              Duck for Turkey Day                                              juv.J942d

Landau, Elaine                   What is Thanksgiving?                                          juv.394.26.L253et

London, Jonathan            Giving thanks                                                           juv. L848g

Livingston, Myra Cohn   Thanksgiving Poems                                                juv.808.81T367

                                          (multicultural, multi-perspectivist  collection)

Mora, Pat                          Gracias, Thanks                                                       juv.M83g

      1621: A New Look at Thanksgiving                        juv. 394.268.G729s

Parr, Todd                           Thankful book                                                         juv.P258t

Pinkwater, D. M.               Hoboken Chicken Emergency                                  juv. P 655h

Sorrell, Traci                      We Are Grateful/Otsaliheliga                                   juv. S7134w

        (Thankfulness during all the seasons with Cherokee          celebrations.Teacher’s guide activities [Juv. 57134w  study guide])

Swamp, Chief Jake            Giving Thanks: A Native Good                           juv.299.79.S791g             

       Morning Message

Sweet, Melissa                 Balloons Over Broadway: The True Story            juv.927.91.S245s

                                          of the Puppeteer of the Macy’s Parade

Wilson, Karma                   Bear says Thanks                                                   juv.W7492b       

Here are some that can be used to discuss dated perspectives and stereotypes:

Cohen, Barbara                 Molly’s Pilgrim                                                 juv. C6722m                      

Dalgleish, Alice                  The Thanksgiving Story                                  juv.D142T 1985

Devlin, Wende                      Cranberry Thanksgiving                                juv.D489c

and Harry

Fritz, Jean                            Who's that Stepping on Plymouth Rock?         juv.974.4.F919w

Parish, Herman                   Amelia Bedelia talks  turkey                             juv. P233at

Koller, Jackie French          Nickommoh! A Thanksgiving Celebration       juv. 394.268. K814n

Smith, E.B.                          Coming of the Pilgrims*                                   juv. 973.2.S4646c

                                             (contains dated perspectives. Thanksgiving myth)

Weisgard, Leonard             The Plymouth Thanksgiving                                juv.973.2W427p

 

Here are some Teacher Materials from the Curriculum Collection:

E98.C5.D434 2003             Children of Native America Today: An Activity and Resource Guide

                                           (companion to Children of Native America today, Juv. 306.08997073 .D411c)

CMC F77.T46 2008            Contemporary Voices along the Lewis and Clark Trail: Teacher Guide for                                               High School

CMC GT4975.T45 2011    Thanksgiving : A Native Perspective

Jacqueline Woodson promotes Reading!

On October 16, 2019, National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, Jacqueline Woodson entertained over 200 New Jersey students at an event held at the College of New Jersey. The event was sponsored by The Literacy Alliance of NJ, comprised of the New Jersey Center for the Book, an affiliate of the Library of Congress, the NJ State Library, the NJ Library Association, the NJ Association of School Librarians, the College of New Jersey and Rutgers University.

Woodson introduced students to her program program Reading = HOPE x CHANGE (What’s your equation?) brings her together with her target audience, youth from around the state, in daylong activities designed to motivate their interest in reading. The program can be found at http://everychildareader.net/, and contains resources for use with juvenile and young adult readers. 

Activity kits geared at different age groups contain materials to use with reading lists of diverse books:
https://everychildareader.net/readinghopechange/activity-kit/  

Other resources for educators, librarians can also be found on the website. Such as A Guide to the works of Jacqueline Woodson's .
https://www.penguin.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/JackieWoodson_EducatorGuide_UPDATE_18.pdf

Test Preparation Help for NJCU Students

NEED PRAXIS/EXAM PREP???

Have no fear

Mometrix and Learning Express are Here!

Mometrix Database

Follow these steps

1.    Just go the Library Home Page https://www.njcu.edu/library

2.     Click on Databases by Title   https://www.njcu.edu/library/library-resources/databases/library-databases-title

3.    Click on Mometrix

4.    Click on Teaching or College Admissions or Plaement or Medical Professional or Graduate and Professional School or Nursing

5.    Click on Exam/Review you need.

LEARNING EXPRESS Database

Follow these steps:

1      Just go the Library Home Page http://www.njcu.edu/guarini/

2    Click on Databases by Title   https://www.njcu.edu/library/library-resources/databases/library-databases-title

3    Click on Learning Express

4.   Click the Sign In/Register button

5.   SET UP AN INDIVIDUAL ACCOUNT (6 character min. for password)

 6.    Enter PRAXIS (or Core Academic Skills for Educators) or GRE etc.  in the Find Tests, Tutorials e-Books box.

    7.    Choose the test that you need.

    8.    Click Download ebook or Start Test box.

 For Content Knowledge review,

Select CORE ENGLISH SKILLS or CORE MATH AND SCIENCE SKILLS

Problems call 201-200-3033

(Guarini Library Reference Desk

 during Library Hours)

Tale of Our Cities-September 29, 2019- Jersey City

Tales of Our Cities: JCFPL’s Annual Book Festival

Sunday, September 29 @ 11:00 am - 4:30 pm

It’s that time of year when we gather to celebrate Jersey City’s stories and the authors who tell them! Join us on the Newark Avenue Pedestrian Plaza for local authors like Sona Charaipotra (Tiny Pretty Things, Symptoms of a Heartbreak), Tracey Baptiste (The Jumbies Series, Minecraft: The Crash) and more! Check out your favorite local authors while you take in performances, kids’ activities, and the best of Downtown’s food and drink! Bring your Library Card or sign up for one at the festival to take advantage of discounts at WORD Bookstore and more!

Featured author speakers to include:

MAIN STAGE (11:00a-4:00p, official individual times still being confirmed):

–Matt Taibbi (politics: Hate Inc) – early release copies will be available at WORD book store

–Rob Hart (sci-fi: The Warehouse)

–Sona Charaipotra (YA fiction: Symptoms of a Heartbreak)

–Tracey Baptiste (JUV/YA fiction: The Jumbies Series)

–Bud Smith (lit fic: Teenager)

–Anthony Suarez (local interest/true crime: Politically Indicted)

This event is free and open to the public.

Read a Pirate Book for Talk Like a Pirate Day- 9/19/19

Read a pirate book for Talk Like A Pirate Day!

Start with the classic:

Stevenson, Robert Louis, Treasure Island            Juv.S848t 1995                               

Have fun with pirates of different types and species:

Andreae, Giles    Captain Flinn and the pirate dinosaurs 
Juv.A5564                                    

Barry, Dave      Peter and the Starcatchers        
Juv.B279p                                         

Bateman, Teresa  Fluffy, Scourge of the Sea         
Juv.B328f                                    

Cannon, A. E.    Let the good times roll with       
Juv.C2259L       Pirate Pete and Pirate Joe                  

Fleischman, Sid  The giant rat of Sumatra:        

                  or, Pirates galore

Juv. F596gi

Fox, Mem        Tough Boris                        
Juv.F792t                                    

Funke, Cornelia Pirate girl                         
Juv.F9824p                                   

Lawlor, Laurie   Dead reckoning:                    
Juv.L418d        a pirate voyage with Captain Drake  

  

McCaughrean, G.  The pirate's son                   
Juv.M1235p                                    

McElligott, Matthew Backbeard and the birthday suit 
Juv.M1418bb                                  

McElligott, Matthew Backbeard: pirate for hire     
Juv.M1418b                                   

Owen, James A.   Lost treasures of the pirates      

                  of the Caribbean

Juv.O975L

Schulz, Heidi    Hook's revenge                     
Juv.S3884h                                       

Sturges, Philemon This little pirate                
Juv.S935t                                    

Stutson, Caroline Pirate Pup                       
Juv.S9374p                                   

And finish off with a scholarly exploration:

Zacks, Richard   The pirate coast : Thomas Jefferson, the first

                        marines, and the secret mission of 1805 

E335 .Z33 2005                            

Bradford, Alfred S.       Flying the black flag : a brief history of piracy

G535 .B73 2007