| NEWS from the CHILDREN'S ROOM Greetings friends! I hope this finds you happy, healthy and enjoying our longer, sunnier days. To make these last few weeks of winter a bit more enjoyable, please check out some of our virtual programs, video music and story times and activity kids. The most up-to-date information can be found on our Events Calendar REMEMBER: I am just an email away from a book recommendation or a big filled with just right books for you:cbender@manchesterpl.org. New books are waiting for you! I'm looking forward to Spring, to hearing from and hopefully seeing you soon! Ms. Carol
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| VIRTUAL OFFERINGS from the CHILDREN'S ROOM Free Music Kits are available starting Friday, February 26th for pick-up during curbside hours. Limited kits available for children ages birth - 4 years, with a limit of 2 per family. Call to reserve yours today: 978-526-7711 Then ... join Teresa Coelho for an interactive delight-filled music video for families. Especially created for families to share with children birth through age 4, but so much fun that everyone will want to play along! Enjoy the March Let's Make Music Video HERE
Virtual Story Times ON: Manchester by the Sea Public Library Face Book Live PJ Family Story Time … Live on Tuesdays @ 6:30PM ... or on YouTube* Stay at Home Story Time … Live on Wednesdays @ 9:30AM ... or on YouTube* Unable to join in the live fun? No worries! Videos are posted to our Facebook or YouTube Playlist links*
Tuesday, March 16 @ 3PM on ZOOM! Enjoy good books that speak to issues of diversity and change? Enjoy cupcakes? If you are in the 4th or 5th grade and would like to join us, please email Children's Librarian Carol Bender for details or to register: cbender@manchesterpl.org Space and *books are limited, so don't delay ... email today! And yes, there will be cupcakes (: *This month we are reading The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise by Dan Gemeinhart
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| DON'T MISS OUT ... Sign up today for Dolly Parton's Imagination Library at www.pw4c.org/imaginationlibrary
Make sure and check out Manchester Historical Museum's video TOYLAND Treasures of the Trask House with John Huss HERE This video is part of Seaside Saturday a monthly collaborative program offered by Early Childhood Partners, Manchester Historical Museum and Manchester by the Sea Public Library ... stay tuned for a new videos each month through May.
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| Online Resources ... a little help and a little fun! Children's Screen Time Action Network LIVE! presents... Spoiled Right: Delaying Screens and Giving Children What They Really Need / Tuesday, March 9 @ 7:30PM Register for this FREE event HERE For years, we’ve been told kids are spending too much time on screens. But, what if we focused on the activities we want them to be doing instead? On our next Action Network Live!, we’ll chat with book author and expert Dr. Meghan Owenz, whose SPOIL system has helped families focus on the multitude of activities that build healthy children and incidentally reduce screen time and its negative effects. It is the much needed “what to do” answer instead of the heavy-handed “what not to do” mandates about children’s screen time. Dr. Owenz makes it simple by explaining how to use goal science to reduce screen time by focusing on what children need more of, like social time, play opportunities,outdoor experiences, chores, and a strong relationship with reading. From the Eric Carle Museum: Making Art Together Blog Brighten someone's day by sending them Art through the Mail! Lots of fun ideas from the creative folks at the Eric Carle Museum HERE
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| And the winners are ... Award Winning Books from 2020:
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| | We Are Water Protectors
By Lindstrom, Carole
Illustrator Goade, Michaela
2020-03 - Roaring Brook Press
9781250203557 Check Our Catalog Winner of the 2021 Caldecott Medal Inspired by the many Indigenous-led movements across North America, We Are Water Protectors issues an urgent rallying cry to safeguard the Earth's water from harm and corruption--a bold and lyrical picture book written by Carole Lindstrom and vibrantly illustrated by Michaela Goade. Water is the first medicine.
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| | Respect: Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul
By Weatherford, Carole Boston
Illustrator Morrison, Frank
2020-08 - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
9781534452282 Check Our Catalog Winner of the Coretta Scott King Illustration Award From a New York Times bestselling author and an acclaimed illustrator comes this vibrant portrait of Aretha Franklin that pays her the R-E-S-P-E-C-T this Queen of Soul deserves. Aretha Franklin was born to sing. The daughter of a pastor and a gospel singer, her musical talent was clear from her earliest days in her father's …More
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| | I Talk Like a River
By Scott, Jordan
Illustrator Smith, Sydney
2020-09 - Neal Porter Books
9780823445592 Check Our Catalog Winner of the Schneider Family Book Award What if words got stuck in the back of your mouth whenever you tried to speak? What if they never came out the way you wanted them to? Sometimes it takes a change of perspective to get the words flowing. A New York Times Best Children's Book of the Year I wake up each morning with the sounds of …More
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| | ¡vamos! Let's Go Eat
By Raul the Third
2020-03 - Versify
9781328557049 Check Our Catalog SPA Winner of the 2021 Pura Belpr Illustrator Medal Little Lobo returns to share his love of food and wrestling in this delicious follow-up to Vamos Let'sGo to the Market from Pura Belpr Medal-winning illustrator Ra l the Third. In this new Vamos title, Let's Go Eat, Little Lobo is excited to take in a show with wrestling star El Toro in his bustling …More
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| | Honeybee: A Day in the Life of APIs Mellifera
By Fleming, Candace
Illustrator Rohmann, Eric
2020-02 - Neal Porter Books
9780823442850 Check Our Catalog Robert F. Sibert Medal Winner Take to the sky with Apis, one honeybee, as she embarks on her journey through life An Orbis Pictus Honor Book
Selected for the Texas Bluebonnnet Master List
Finalist for the AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books A tiny honeybee emerges through the wax cap of her cell. …More
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| | See the Cat: Three Stories about a Dog
By Larochelle, David
Illustrator Wohnoutka, Mike
2020-09 - Candlewick Press (MA)
9781536204278 Check Our Catalog Winner of the 2021 Theodor Seuss Geisel Award
Move over, Spot. . . . Spoofing classic primers, Max the Dog talks back to the book in a twist that will have fans of funny early readers howling. See Max. Max is not a cat--Max is a dog. But much to Max's dismay, the book keeps instructing readers to "see the cat." How can Max get through to the book that he is …More
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| | Welcoming Elijah: A Passover Tale with a Tail
By Newman, Leslea
Illustrator Gal, Susan
2020-01 - Charlesbridge Publishing
9781580898829 Check Our Catalog Celebrated author Lesl a Newman unites a young boy and a stray kitten in a warm, lyrical story about Passover, family, and friendship. Inside, a boy and his family sit around the dinner table to embrace the many traditions of their Passover Seder around the dinner table. Outside, a cat wonders, hungry and alone. When it's time for the symbolic Passover custom of opening the family's …More
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| | When You Trap a Tiger
By Keller, Tae
2020-01 - Random House Books for Young Readers
9781524715700 Check Our Catalog WINNER OF THE NEWBERY MEDAL - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
WINNER OF THE ASIAN/PACIFIC AMERICAN AWARD FOR CHILDREN'S LITERATURE Would you make a deal with a magical tiger? This uplifting story brings Korean folklore to life as a girl goes on a quest to unlock the power of stories and save her grandmother. Some stories refuse to stay …More
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| | Before the Ever After
By Woodson, Jacqueline
2020-09 - Nancy Paulsen Books
9780399545436 Check Our Catalog WINNER OF THE CORETTA SCOTT KING AUTHOR AWARD National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson's stirring novel-in-verse explores how a family moves forward when their glory days have passed and the cost of professional sports on Black bodies. For as long as ZJ can remember, his dad has been everyone's hero. As a charming, talented pro football star, he's as beloved to …More
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| | Show Me a Sign
By Lezotte, Ann Clare
2020-03 - Scholastic Press
9781338255812 Check Our Catalog This piercing exploration of ableism and racism answers the call to dig deep, examine core beliefs, and question what is considered normal. Perfect for summer reading, distance learning, and schools, peer, and family book groups. Deaf author and librarian Ann Clare LeZotte weaves a riveting Own Voices story inspired by the true history of a thriving deaf community on Martha's Vineyard in …More
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| | Efren Divided
By Cisneros, Ernesto
2020-03 - Quill Tree Books
9780062881687 Check Our Catalog Winner of the Pura Belpr Award "We need books to break open our hearts, so that we might feel more deeply, so that we might be more human in these unkind times. This is a book doing work of the spirit in a time of darkness." --Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street Efr n Nava's Am is his Superwoman--or Soperwoman, named …More
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| | Turtle Boy
By Wolkenstein, M. Evan
2020-05 - Delacorte Press
9780593121573 Check Our Catalog SYDNEY TAYLOR BOOK AWARD WINNER A boy who has spent his life living inside a shell discovers the importance of taking chance in this winner (Booklist, starred review) of a friendship story that's perfect for fans of Wonder. Seventh grade is not going well for Will Levine. Kids at school bully him because of his funny-looking chin. And for his bar mitzvah …More
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