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2009 T+L Conference: Tech Tips, Budget Breaks, and Mind-Bending Toys
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October 13, 2009

In this Issue

Halloween is just around the corner, and there's nothing like a good ghost story to grab kids' attention.

Check out "Scare Tactics" for some perfect titles for teens and tweens.

Brian Kenney, Editor-in-Chief
bkenney@reedbusiness.com

TECH TRENDS

  • 2009 T+L Conference: Tech Tips, Budget Breaks, and Mind-Bending Toys
    Media specialists and other members of the K–12 community are gearing up for the T+L Conference, set for Oct 28–30 in Denver.

    Sponsored by the National School Boards Association's (NSBA) Technology Leadership Team, the event has inspired some buzz, with attendees on blogs and Twitter chatting about everything from speaker Stanley Young, CEO of NeuroSky whose breakthrough technology can be found in one of this year’s hottest Christmas toys, to the Kent School District in Washington, which will share its experience with one-to-one computing at T+L. more » » » 

Blogs

 

NEWS

  • Library of Congress to Unveil Young Readers Center
    John Russell, the Librarian of Congress from 1897 to 1899, is finally having his dream come true—an area of the Library of Congress is being set aside for kids.

    The Young Readers Center will officially open to the public on October 23, but School Library Journal was given a sneak preview by Jane Gilchrist, who will oversee the operation of the first area devoted to children in the library’s 209-year history. more » » » 
  • USBBY's Conference Explores Global Connections Through Children's Literature
    More than 225 librarians, teachers, authors, illustrators, and publishers from 17 countries thronged the Q Center in suburban St Charles, IL, October 2–4, to attend the United States Board on Books for Young People’s (USBBY) Eighth Biennial Regional Conference for a weekend of speeches, panel discussions, and an opportunity to explore global connections through children’s literature.

    USBBY President John Mason, Scholastic’s director of library and educational marketing, made the opening remarks at "Children's Books: Where Worlds Meet," and attendees later enjoyed insights into the complex process of picture-book making by Australian author/illustrator Shaun Tan, winner of the Caldecott medal for his wordless picture book, The Arrival (Scholastic, 2007) and David Wiesner, three-time Caldecott winner for Tuesday (1992), The Three Pigs (2002) and Flotsam (2007). more » » » 
 

FRESH APPROACHES

  • Picture Book Birthday Party
    Anniversary editions and celebratory reissues of beloved picture books have been popping up all over. Take this opportunity to weed out bedraggled copies, replace long-lost volumes, and freshen up your shelves with new versions of these tried-and-true titles.

    A 50th-anniversary edition of Leo Lionni’s Little Blue and Little Yellow, originally published in 1959 and long out of print in hardcover, will be released this month by Alfred A. Knopf. Lionni’s first work for young people, this innovative offering launched a rich and enduring career that included the creation of more than 40 titles for kids and numerous awards and honors. more » » » 
 

WHAT ARE THEY READING FOR FUN?

  • Books about demons, real and imagined

    Wendy Scalfaro, G. Ray Bodley High School, Fulton, NY:
    Fulton is a small city about 30 miles north of Syracuse. Even before Stephenie Meyer’s “Twilight” series (Little, Brown) sank its teeth into the neck of teen fiction, our students had a thirst for horror and fantasy. Girls read both genres, but tend to prefer the more romance-heavy supernatural stories such as Amelia Atwater-Rhodes’s Demon in My View (Delacorte, 2000), etc., or Lynne Ewing’s “Daughters of the Moon” books (Hyperion). Boys lean heavily toward fantasy like Christopher Paolini’s Eragon (Knopf, 2003) and its sequels. more » » » 
 
     






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