TeachingBooks.net Resources for CSLP

TeachingBooks has compiled online resources that will be great for CSLP.

• Book and Author Ready-to-Use Resources related to the YOUTH Manual: http://TeachingBooks.net/CSLP
  
  
• Book and Author Ready-to-Use Resources related to the TEEN Manual: http://TeachingBooks.net/CSLPT
  

Also, here are some unique insights from the illustrators who created the CSLP posters:

• Hear illustrator Rafel López share how he created the One World, Many Stories poster: http://TeachingBooks.net/CSLP2011ONE
  
  
• Hear illustrator Svetlana Chmakova share how she created the You Are Here poster: http://TeachingBooks.net/CSLP2011YOU

Summer Reading Program Idea: "One World, Many (Dinosaur) Stories"

From Paul Nelson's blog "Retiring Guy's Digest"

CSLP Video Challenge

CSLP, the national organization that creates and coordinates the summer library program, is hosting a teen PSA contest in 2011 for those states interested in participating. The Division for Libraries, Technology, and Community Learning, (DLTCL) is collaborating with the Youth Services Section (YSS) of the Wisconsin Library Association (WLA) to offer the contest in Wisconsin. Jill Lininger, Racine Public Library and Past Chair of YSS, will be coordinating the submissions and judging of the videos. Barb Huntington, DLTCL, will manage the administrative aspects of the contest.

Public librarians are asked to promote the contest with their teens and teen advisory groups and encourage them to submit a video. The teens submitting the winning video for Wisconsin will win $250 from CSLP, and the sponsoring library will receive $100. This might make a good fun raiser for the library’s teen area.

The application form, model release form, and rules for the contest on line at www.wla.lib.wi.us/yss/videochallenge.htm. Videos must be posted on YouTube by March 1st. Wisconsin's winning video will be sent to CSLP. All the winning videos will be available to libraries around the county to use in promotion of the 2011 Teen Summer Reading Program, "You Are Here." CSLP has resources that can be used by the teens in creating their video, including music sound tracks. Instructions on how to access the resources are included on Wisconsin's Video Challenge website.

For answers to questions contact Jill Lininger at jill.lininger@racinelibrary.info or 262-636-9255 or Barb Huntington at barbara.huntington@dpi.wi.gov or 608-267-5077.

Poem for 2011 SLP from Judy Farrow Busack

Judy Farrow Busack was a children's librarian in public libraries for many years, and often wrote a poem to go with the summer reading program. For 2011, she re-worked a poem published in the Wisconsin Summer Library Program manual, "Go Global Read!" If you think your librarians would be interested, please forward it to them.

Be mobile, be global, be always on the look
For something new and different;
We will travel by the book!
Get your passbook; be ready to fly
'N see the world from way up high.
It's green, brown, small and grand
Let's celebrate the Earth and...

Land: Upon the frozen tundra, not a tree in sight,
With polar bears and artic hares at home in frozen white.
We'll need a parka and snowshoes on our feet
But the best part, that makes this trip complete:
We won't have to go to bed in the land of midnight sun,
"Just wait till it is dark" is what we'll tell our mom.

Be mobile, be global, be always on the look
For something new and different;
We will travel by the book!
Get your passbook; be ready to fly
'N see the world from way up high.
It's green, brown, small and grand
Let's celebrate the Earth and...

Land: Where the trees look different and there's never snow or sleet
Life is mostly barefoot, with sand beneath our feet.
The ocean waves a welcome and tosses us a shell
We run out to greet her and she tosses us as well.
We don't mind, it's hot, we're wet; it's fun we grinned
And pay a sand dollar to ride waves like the wind.

Be mobile, be global, be always on the look
For something new and different;
We will travel by the book!
Get your passbook; be ready to fly
'N see the world from way up high.
It's green, brown, small and grand
Let's celebrate the Earth and...

Land: In a rain forest jungle where monkeys swing from vine to vine
And see exotic butterflies glow in the dark and shine-
This is the home of our oxygen supply...
We've got to preserve it; we can't let it die.
Walk carefully in this fragile forest clime
Don't upset the balance-uh-oh, we slipped in slime!

Be mobile, be global, be always on the look
For something new and different;
We will travel by the book!
Get your passbook; be ready to fly
'N see the world from way up high.
It's green, brown, small and grand
Let's celebrate the Earth and...

Land: On the savanna, where the lions are at home,
Where zebras and hippos and elephants roam,
Watching, protecting their cubs and their calves:
Cubs of cheetahs and calves of giraffes.
See that vulture circling its prey?
Stay
Away from that bird
And follow the herd.

Be mobile, be global, be always on the look
For something new and different;
We will travel by the book!
Get your passbook; be ready to fly
'N see the world from way up high.
It's green, brown, small and grand
We celebrate the Earth and now we land.

© Judy Farrow Busack for use of Wisconsin libraries summer of 2011