Book Group Post 5: April continues 560's - 580's and in May we talked about JP family books

In April we talked about the following books in the 560's to 580's section of the library:

• Once Upon a Mastodon: All About Prehistoric Mammals by Worth
• Cactus Hotel by Guiberson
• Plants Can't Sit Still by Hirsch
• Living Sunlight: How Plants Bring the Earth to Life by Bang
• Because of An Acorn by Schaefer
• Dinosaur Tracks by Zoehfeld
• The Mangrove Tree: Planting Trees to Feed Families by Roth

We had an ecosystem organization chart handout and bags of chips.

Then in the May book group we listened to the audio version of A Day In the Life of Marlon Bundo by Twiss and we discussed these other books about families:

• Families, Families, Families by Lang
• Nighty Night! by Wild
• The Family Book by Parr
• And Tango Makes Three by Richardson
• I Love It When You Smile by McBratney

There are so many other wonderful family books-some other suggestions that I've received include the following titles: Zak's Safari, The Relatives Came, Owl Babies, Does a Kangaroo Have a Mother Too?, One Big Family, Over the Moon, Froggy's Baby Sister, My Family Tree and Me, Two Is Enough, and many others.

And, I wanted to share this link from Real Simple for some fun family activities from cooking together to making a time capsule: https://www.realsimple.com/work-life/family/family-activities

Book Group Post 4 : Feb. spotlighted McMullan and Ahlberg and Mar. covered some j500's

We read Hooray for Bread by Allan Ahlberg and talked about other books by the Ahlbergs and the McMullans in February.

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_and_Allan_Ahlberg

https://www.katemcmullan.com/

http://jamesmcmullan.com/BIO3.HTML


March started something new with a diversion into the j 500's.  We shared the following titles: (again, let me know if I missed some that we talked about)

• Star Stuff: Carl Sagan and the Mysteries of the Cosmos by Sisson
• Earth! My First 4.54 Billion Years by McAnulty
• The Glow In the Dark Book of Space by Harris
• Bedtime Math by Overdeck
• Island A Story of the Galapagos by Chin
• Max Goes to Mars by Bennett
• Water Can Be by Salas
• Magic School Bus books by Cole
• Wonderful Winter: All Kinds of Winter Facts and Fun by Goldstone
• Our Family Tree by Peters

Book Group Post 3 : Some Utah Authors in Dec. Happy Books in Jan.

For December 2017 we talked about books by Utah author couple Caralyn and Mark Buehner and Utah author Rick Walton.

https://buehnerbooks.com/

and

http://english.byu.edu/rick-walton-1957-2016/

Then in January 2018, we talked about happy books, which included the following titles and authors:
(again, if there are some that we talked about at the Jan. meeting and I didn't write it down, let me know and I'll add them-thanks!) :

• books by Mo Willems
• The Secret Pizza Party by Rubin 
• Jingle Jingle by Smee
• Good Boy Fergus by Shannon
• Ish by Reynolds
• Yes Day! by Rosenthal
• Woodpecker Wants a Waffle by Breen
• books by Karma Wilson
• 100 Things That Make Me Happy by Schwartz
• A Hundred Billion Trillion Stars by Fishman

And, on the note of humorous things, this is what happens when most people don't let the library staff know that the receipt printer is turned off and finally someone does!  We generate a lot of book reminder receipts at just one station!  (This is at a checkout station that is used infrequently through the day and yes, these are receipts from just part of one day.  I glad to say our library sees a lot of usage from programs to computer use to people actually checking out physical materials.)

Book Group Post 2 : Unpleasant Emotions in Nov.

November 2017 we talked about unpleasant emotions since the holidays can be a stressful time.  Everything from anger to jealousy to sadness. 

We found an emotions page from Inside Out on the Whatscookingsister blog: http://whatscookinsister.blogspot.com/2016/02/emotions-chart-for-kids_9.html

Books discussed included:  (sorry if I missed any titles that we discussed that time-let me know and I'll add them in!)

• The Grumpy Dump Truck by Spangler
• I'm Not Scared by Allen
• What Do You Do With a Problem by Yamada
• Feelings by Parr
• Sam's Pet Temper  by Bhadra
• The I'm Not Scared Book by Parr
• The Kissing Hand by Penn
• How Do Dinosaurs Say I'm Mad by Yolen
• The Princess and the Fog by Jones
• Who Wants a Tortoise by Keane
• The Truly Terribly Horrible Sweater That Grandma Knit by Macomber
• Dolores Meets Her Match by Samuels
• Crankenstein by Berger
• I Will Never Get a Star on Mrs. Benson's Blackboard by Mann

Book Group post 1 : Henkes in Sept. and Donaldson in Oct.

In September of 2017, we talked about books by Kevin Henkes.  Interview from NPR (National Public Radio) in 2015: https://www.npr.org/2015/09/22/442521229/some-kids-books-are-worth-the-wait-they-do-take-time-says-kevin-henkes

Interview with BookPage in 1996: https://bookpage.com/interviews/8481-kevin-henkes#.Wq3sc2rwaUk

Kevin Henkes Homepage: https://kevinhenkes.com/  He's got activities and teaching and discussion guides!



In October of 2017 we talked about books by Julia Donaldson of Scotland. 

Julia Donaldson website: http://www.juliadonaldson.co.uk/   This woman is amazing!  She's written poems, songs, all kinds of books, and lots of wonderful things for children (and adults who love cleverly written works). 

Chocolate and caramel and aplets, oh my!

Treats for Book Group

Last night I hosted the book group to which I belong. We discussed my book selection, Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs, among other things. I digressed early and often during our discussion and we covered everything from the clear play dvd player to candy thermometers and pans to candy making in general. We did touch upon our next book, Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell, and a couple of us (we were such a small group-only four others were able to come) admitted to having never read the book previously or viewed the movie. Audible gasps greeted the movie admission. Sigh. So I haven’t seen some of the great movies of all time-life is just too short on time sometimes. We enjoyed my overzealous candy-making endeavor of licorice caramels, orange caramels, plain caramels, chocolate caramels, aplets, mint-flavored dark chocolate dipped oreos, and chocolate dipped homemade marshmallows. This is why I probably don’t get to host book group too often-I just get carried away. Although my excuse was that last time I hosted we had sick kids & so my token offering then consisted of nuts and Sweets’ cinnamon bears.