Calling all kids! Spin a yarn at Tikatok, a new website “where kids channel their imagination into stories – and publish those stories into books for you to share and treasure with friends and family.”
-Bri
Director’s Notebook
June, 2008
Some writers are identified with a particular country or region, others with a specific period in history. Willa Cather is known for both. When I think of her, I think of the prairie states, especially Nebraska, and I think of the days of the intrepid pioneers of the prairies, struggling to make a life for themselves that was tenuous, at best.
Lookybook is a new website that lets readers look at each and every page of a picture book “from cover to cover, at your own pace.”
Kind of like reading an actual book!
Lookybook argues, “We know that nothing will replace the magic of reading a book with your child at bedtime, but we aim to replace the overwhelming and frustrating process of finding the right books for parents and their kids.”
It’s HOT outside, but it’s COOL in here! Stop by the library: there’s no better place to browse through your favorite magazine or read a good book!
Question: Who is one of America’s most impassioned advocates for the rights of all children?
Answer: Jonathon Kozol, who recently was the keynote speaker at the commencement exercises for St. Andrews School in Barrington.
Follow this link to learn more about Kozol’s life and works:
Question: What has all the adventuresome buddy appeal of the Hardy Boys, the subtlety of Jane Austen in conveying late 18th, early 19th century European social nuance, and a shipload more of interest besides?
Istanbul, Turkey
Personal Journeys: A Travelogue Series at the Library
Don’t miss the opportunity to see this beautiful and moving paper crane exhibit at the Library during the month of June. The display, to be found in the glass case located near the fiction collection, was arranged by YA Librarian Bri Johnson in celebration of the kind generosity shown to her by local teens during a recent illness.
Bri posted these words to elucidate this beautiful and moving exhibit:
All paper crane projects have a story.
Feed your craving for books! Come to the Friends of Barrington Library mini book sale on Saturday, June 7 from 10 to 2. The sale will be held in the lower level of the Library/Peck Center, at the Tap-IN entrance.
