The competition was stiff, but one group - TEAM # 8 (pictured above) - prevailed at the 2nd annual DADS READ competition held yesterday after school. Nearly 100 5th grade boys and their dads or male mentors participated by reading three books, chosen by the lower school librarians, over a three-month period. Code Talkers by Joseph Bruchac, The Last Newspaper Boy in America by Sue Corbett, and Powerless by Matthew Cody gave the boys and their dads plenty of great guy stuff to talk about. Fourteen teams of men and boys huddled together at the competition, answering 30 questions before the champions were crowned...or awarded their light-up trophies as it were. Congratulations to Hollis and Rev. Cobb, Ivey and Mr. Chaney, John and Mr. Fitzgerald, and Nate and Dr. Davis for answering all 30 questions correctly! If any of the DADS READers are looking for their next good book to share, consider stopping by the library or our favorite local children's book shop, bbgb tales for kids, at 3100 Kensington Avenue in the Museum District. Tell them you're Saints, and the kind ladies there will know exactly what to recommend. Happy Reading!
Thursday, January 26, 2012
DADS READ...and Boys Win
The competition was stiff, but one group - TEAM # 8 (pictured above) - prevailed at the 2nd annual DADS READ competition held yesterday after school. Nearly 100 5th grade boys and their dads or male mentors participated by reading three books, chosen by the lower school librarians, over a three-month period. Code Talkers by Joseph Bruchac, The Last Newspaper Boy in America by Sue Corbett, and Powerless by Matthew Cody gave the boys and their dads plenty of great guy stuff to talk about. Fourteen teams of men and boys huddled together at the competition, answering 30 questions before the champions were crowned...or awarded their light-up trophies as it were. Congratulations to Hollis and Rev. Cobb, Ivey and Mr. Chaney, John and Mr. Fitzgerald, and Nate and Dr. Davis for answering all 30 questions correctly! If any of the DADS READers are looking for their next good book to share, consider stopping by the library or our favorite local children's book shop, bbgb tales for kids, at 3100 Kensington Avenue in the Museum District. Tell them you're Saints, and the kind ladies there will know exactly what to recommend. Happy Reading!
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
A Medal for Daisy
The Caldecott Medal was awarded on Monday to Chris Raschka for his colorful, wordless picture book, A Ball for Daisy, which tells the story and shows the emotions of a little dog whose ball has gone lost. No stranger to "heavy medal," Raschka won the top prize in 2006 for The Hello, Goodbye Window, and his groundbreaking Yo! Yes? was an honor book in 2004.
This year's committee also recognized Blackout by John Rocco, Grandpa Green by Lane Smith, and Me...Jane by Patrick McDonnell.
Second graders, voting in a mock Caldecott election through library class, chose William Joyce's The Man in the Moon as their favorite followed by Steven Savage's Where's Walrus? and Smith's Grandpa Green. The boys also considered A Nation's Hope, written by Matt de la Pena and illustrated by Kadir Nelson, as well as Kevin Henkes's Little White Rabbit. All are great books - worthy of awards and an audience of readers.
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