How do physics, biology, and chemistry fit into this year’s Olympic winter games in Vancouver? NBC Learn, the network’s educational arm, has launched the Learn the Science of Olympic Winter Games Web site, which offers a free 16-part series designed to explore the science behind the speed of a bobsled or an airlift ski jump. More
Austin Public Library’s (APL) youth services group gets together each year to figure out a budget for its wildly popular summer reading program, and every year it gets scrapped because there's not enough money. Luckily, a recent $300,000 grant from the Lone Star Libraries will meet this summer’s need.
This loquacious pooch, first introduced in Susan Meddaugh’s beloved Martha Speaks (Houghton, 1992) and five other popular picture books, made her television debut in the fall of 2008. Produced by WGBH in Boston along with Vancouver’s Studio B Productions, the animated series airs daily on PBS Kids and is now in its second season.
Google invites K–12 public and private students to pick up a pen, pencil, paintbrush, or mouse between now and March 31, 2010, to create an illustration that best expresses this year's Doodle 4 Google theme: “If I Could Do Anything I Would…”
PRACTICALLY PARADISE Diane Chen, Librarian, Hickman Elementary School, Nashville, Tennessee February 9, 2010 Blanche Woolls Vision & Action
Blanche Woolls wrote to members of the Geek Squad recently. Her post had such a power... More
2009 National Book Awards On the red carpet with nominees in the Young People's Literature category.
Photos by Rocco Staino.
SLJ Covers 2009 A bigger and better view of SLJ's covers from 2009
BookExpo America 2009: SLJ's Day of Dialog School Library Journal held a Day of Dialog in conjunction with the annual BookExpo America on May 28, 2009 at the Brooklyn Public Library. Full story: bit.ly/1a0G7o
Rockin’, Rollin’ and Ridin’ with Rebecca Frezza & Big Truck. CD. 23 min. Prod. by Big Truck Music. Dist. by CDBaby.com. 2009. $8.99.
Gr 1-5–A veteran of Noggin Channel and PBS Kids, Frezza created these eight exceptional rock ‘n roll songs for elementary grade children who are too old for Raffi, but not old enough for adult pop music.
Friends and colleagues of the late Effie Lee Morris may enjoy this photo of the children's librarian, which Nicholas Glass, founder and executive director of Teachingbooks.net, recently found on his computer. It was taken at the 2009 ALA Annual Conference in Chicago, and features (from left) Ashley Bryan, Christopher Myers, and Morris, also an advocate for children's literature and library service to youngsters with impaired vision, who died of cancer on November 10, 2009.
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Rockin’, Rollin’ and Ridin’ with Rebecca Frezza & Big Truck. CD. 23 min. Prod. by Big Truck Music. Dist. by CDBaby.com. 2009. $8.99. 
