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edited by Jon Scieszka, Guys Read – author website, boys literacy program website
Roll Call Question: What book have you read the most times in your life?
Cathie Sue: But Not the Hippotomas, Go Dog Go, Caddie Woodlawn, Gone with the Wind
Emily: Good Night Moon, Monster at the End of the Book, The Giant Jam Sandwich, The Hobbit, Weetzie Bat
Karl: Phantom Tollbooth, The Dark is Rising series
Adrienne: My Book About Me, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Christine
Topic: ALA Youth Media Awards 2011; ALSC, YALSA
Recommendations:
Emily
Nova Science Now hosted by Neil Degrasse Tyson
Cathie Sue
TV Shut off for a week
Karl
Lost by Jacqueline Davies
Silk by Caitlain Kiernan
Adrienne
Modern Family
Scott Pilgrim vs The World
Bradley Cooper
Last Words:
Maureen Johnson at Metropolitan Library System Libraries, April 5 – 7, 2011 (Facebook)
Gene Luen Yang at Tulsa City County Library System Libraries
Upcoming Books:
6 picture books selected by Cathie Sue and Jenny
- Banana! by Ed Vere
- Stalling by Alan Katz
- Two Dumb Ducks by Maxwell Eaton
- Shark vs. Train by Chris Barton
- Big Rig Bugs by Kurt Cyrus
- Phileas’ Fortune by Lestrade and Thirteen Words by Lemony Snicket
As Easy As Falling Off the Face of the Earth by Lynne Rae Perkins
Grim Legacy by Polly Shulman