Posted in Resources on Jun 22nd, 2008 No Comments »
Nominations for New York State’s 3 Apples Book Award will begin in September this year. A great way to encourage new titles to be nominated, is to remind the children and teens about […]
Posted in Resources, Video on Jun 20th, 2008 No Comments »
The CSLP is now allowing us to post the promotional videos for Catch the Reading Bug and Metamorphosis to various video sharing sites. And that makes it really easy for you to put the videos on your web pages. All you have to do is copy and paste! Visit the Public Service Announcements page for […]
Posted in Resources on Jun 9th, 2008 No Comments »
I just ran across Mid-Hudson Library System’s Summer Reading Program resource pages. Wow, what a great treasure trove of ideas for programs, activities, PR and more.
What a fun idea to do a scavenger hunt that involves community organizations and businesses (an idea from Mary Lou Carolan, Director of the Wallkill Public Library - Ramapo […]
Posted in Resources on Jun 9th, 2008 No Comments »
The NYS Summer Reading site now has games, quizzes, puzzles, activities and more! Check out the Kids Reading Bug page and the Teens Metamorphosis section. New games and activities will be added throughout the summer, so check back for more fun. If you know of fun games, crafts, activities, etc. that you’d like to see […]
Posted in Resources on May 30th, 2008 No Comments »
As we’ve been looking for games and puzzles for the NYS Summer Reading web pages, we’ve run across some terrific resources from other libraries. Some recent finds:
Jasper County Public Library (Indiana) has created some wonderful posters and desktop images for the Metamorphosis theme. They’ve generously offered them with Creative Commons licensing so anyone can […]
Posted in Resources on May 26th, 2008 No Comments »
Here’s a terrific set of bug related resources. Booklists, crafts, snacks, songs and more. There are 20 resource pages right now, for every bug from ants to ladybugs to worms. Great job by Linda Williams at the Connecticut State Library. (Some pages are still under construction, so check back often!)
via: Bugs, bees and crawly […]
Posted in Photos, Resources on May 25th, 2008 No Comments »
I love this photo that Laura Savastinuk from Gwinnett County Public Library in Georgia added to the Summer Reading photo group on flickr. If you haven’t taken a look at the photos there, you’re in for a treat. Lots of fun program, craft, activity & display ideas. And some wonderful photos of kids […]
Posted in Resources on May 13th, 2008 No Comments »
New CD of Bugsongs to help catch the reading bug!
Catchy, singable “bugsongs” are on their way for your Summer reading program activities! Musical Mark, a children’s singer songwriter from Ohio, put together a special CD collection of his original bugsongs expressly to help catch the reading bug! Songs like “Catch the Reading Bug”, […]
Posted in Resources on May 7th, 2008 No Comments »
This creepy, creeping spider comes to you via Melissa Widner, Webmaster at the Jasper County Public Library in Rensselaer, IN. It follows your mouse around. What fun!
Customize the spider and put it on your own web pages, blogs, iGoogle page or wherever you want. Visit the Spider page to customize it and get the […]
Posted in Resources on Apr 23rd, 2008 No Comments »
A recent comment on this blog sent me looking for reading lists for the “catch the reading bug” theme. I found a few and added them to a a new Booklists page in the Planners section of the summerreadingnys.org site. If you know of other book lists to add to this list, let us know […]
New York Statewide Summer Reading Program
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