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CHILDREN’S AND YOUNG ADULT PROGRAMS

The Maker Library Robotics
Cookbook Technology and English

Recipes for Language Arts Activities
Children’s and for Ages 8–24
‘Tween Library SARAH KEPPLE
Programs A dive-right-in, quick-start guide
CINDY R. WALL AND for busy library professionals who
LYNN M. PAWLOSKI want to build literacy, STEAM,
FOREWORD BY BILL DERRY and other 21st-century skills
August 2014, 237pp, 8 1/2x11 Programs that involve October 2015, 156pp, 6 1/8x9 1/4 using simple robots in a fun,
Print: 978-1-61069-661-6 “ Print: 978-1-4408-3558-2 collaborative environment.
creating a ‘Balloon Zip
$45.00, £35.00, €41.00 $45.00, £35.00, €41.00
eBook: 978-1-61069-662-3 Line,’ a ‘Zen Garden,’ or a eBook: 978-1-4408-3559-9 FEATURES
‘Maker Marketplace’ will • Provides the only guidebook
delight library users and currently available about robotics written by a librarian, for
generate activity and excitement in your library. librarians—a simple, practical guide that virtually any librarian
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Thoroughly ‘user friendly’ throughout. can use, no prior tech experience necessary
—Midwest Book Review, December 1, 2014 • Guides librarians in using their knowledge of literacy, youth
development, and guided-inquiry methodology to gain
The Maker Movement is hot, and librarians are eager to an accessible entry point to grow their technological skills
participate. Even if you feel restricted by budget, staff, or alongside the youth they serve
space, this step-by-step guide will help you turn your library
into a creativity center.
Diversity
FEATURES
• Makes it easy for you to host Maker programs for children Programming
and ‘tweens—with “No Makerspace Required!” for Digital Youth
Promoting Cultural
Get Real with Competence in the
Storytime Children’s Library

52 Weeks of Early JAMIE CAMPBELL NAIDOO
Literacy Programming “ Educators and librarians
with Nonfiction June 2014, 187pp, 6 1/8x9 1/4 alike will benefit from the
and Poetry Print: 978-1-61069-487-2 information presented in
$55.00, £43.00, €50.00 this book about the need
JULIE DIETZEL-GLAIR AND eBook: 978-1-61069-488-9 to reach the diverse needs
MARIANNE CRANDALL FOLLIS
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of our youth.
This is a complete, year-long —ARBAonline, October 1, 2014
November 2015, 337pp, 8 1/2x11 programming guide that shows
Print: 978-1-4408-3738-8 Combining information about outreach to diverse populations,
$45.00, £35.00, €41.00 librarians how to integrate selection of culturally diverse children’s print and digital media,
eBook: 978-1-4408-3739-5 nonfiction and poetry into and library programming, this book is the tool librarians need
storytime for preschool children
in order to build literacy skills and to promote cultural understanding through engaging children’s
overall knowledge. programs designed for today’s culturally diverse youth.
FEATURES FEATURES
• Helps librarians meet children’s interests in “real stuff” and • Provides specific evaluation criteria for selecting high-quality
reach more children—especially boys—in storytime new digital media with cultural content
• Provides new and effective ways to build early literacy skills
using a unique blend of the “literary” and the “real”

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