December 16 News

Good News!

The library is now able to order materials from two local bookstores, Antigone and Singing Wind.

This is Winn Bundy, the owner of the Singing Wind book store who is a font of knowledge about local authors and books.

And here is the link to Antigone Books close by on 4th Avenue. This is a fun book store with lots of helpful staff and lots of choices.

http://www.antigonebooks.com/NASApp/store/IndexJsp

If Baker & Taylor does not carry a new title and CDO wants to purchase it, we can now try these two vendors.

More news later,

Ann

TEEN News items

Teen News items:
Jan. 19, 2009 is the 200th birthday of Edgar Allan Poe and there will be special events around the country to commemorate his birth and his writing.
I have recently ordered some Poe DVDs for the system for teens including;
Tomb of Ligeia/Evening of Edgar Allan Poe (Vincent Price in a Reader's Theater presentation)
The Tell Tale Heart (American Story Collection) and
The Murders in the Rue Morgue/ The Hound of the Baskervilles (Val Kilmer)

I've also ordered on DVD:
Teens, Sex & Health, A Comprehensive Approach to Sexual Education.
Sister, Sister :The First Season (Tia Mowry)
Naruto: The Movie 3: Guardians of the Crescent Moon Kingdom
24: Redemption (Kiefer Sutherland)
The Simpsons: The Complete Fourth and Fifth Seasons
Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

December news items

Children's news:
I have ordered the book by Dr. Milton Lipson, 'Two Arizona Black Birds' from Changing Hands book store so we should see it available in the catalog pretty soon.
'In "Two Arizona Black Birds" (Wheatmark, $16), Lipson 's enduring stories have been preserved in print to reach a wider audience. But the goal is the same: to amuse, entertain and teach. In this case, it urges people to cultivate their capabilities as they accept their limitations. The black birds in his story are both residents of Arizona's Sonoran Desert. One is the handsome, shiny black phainopepla. The other is a starling whose small, black-feathered body has enough white feathers scattered throughout to make it look almost polka-dotted. They both love to eat seeds, grain and berries, but their absolute favorite food is bugs. How they catch them (or don't) is the focus of Lipson 's story'.
Arizona Daily Star Nov. 13, 2008
Dr. Lipson died last year and was local writer Marilyn Heins' husband.

Recent DVD orders include:
Hannah Montana: The Complete First Season
Max & Ruby - A Very Merry Christmas
Prince Caspian
Beethoven's Big Break (the dog)

Children's book notes

Have you seen this picture book yet?
The Black Book of Colors By Menena Cottin Illustrated by Rosana Faría

"It is very hard for a sighted person to imagine what it is like to be blind. This groundbreaking, award-winning book endeavors to convey the experience of a person who can only see through his or her sense of touch, taste, smell or hearing. Raised black line drawings on black paper, which can be deciphered by touch, complement a beautifully written text describing colors through imagery. Braille letters accompany the text so that the sighted reader can begin to imagine what it is like to use Braille to read."
It was recently named one of Booklist magazine's Top Ten Art books as well as a number of other awards.

More news coming soon,
Ann

Teen books

Here's an interesting article about Teen books and their cover art that you might enjoy.
http://www.printmag.com/design_articles/cover_girls/tabid/330/Default.aspx
It's from the April 2008 issue of Print magazine. Enjoy!

Third Week in November

November News updates

Children's News:

Now would be a great time to take your December Holiday books, DVDs, CDs and audio books out of storage and put them out there for patrons to check out. I think they will go quickly!

Speaking of Holiday books, I'm seeing Valentine's and Easter board books in a cart sent to me from Baker & Taylor. The publishing dates are December 2008 and January 2009.

I ordered a lot yesterday for the library so we should see those before the January and February holidays.

A few of the titles are: Somebunny Loves You by Jane Gerver

Puppy Love by Salina Yoon

In Elmo's Easter Parade by Naomi Kleinberg

Little Quack's Bedtime by Lauren Thompson

Teen News:

Graphic Novels

There are some really wonderful Teen graphic novels now in the collection that aren't exactly novels but they are written in a graphic novel style.

Japan Ai: A Tall Girl's Adventures in Japan by Aimee Major Steinberger 952.05 st349 2007 is one example. It's a 'manga journal that is both adorable and breathtaking!' (from the back cover)

The fatal bullet : a true account of the assassination, lingering pain, death, and burial of James A. Garfield, twentieth president of the United States... by Rick Geary 364.1523 G262 is another example. In fact Rick Geary has created a number of true crime graphic novels that are excellent.

Houdini: The Handcuff King by Jason Lutes & Nick Bertozzi 92 H813l is another example.

So if you are looking for some good graphic novels to read or recommend and want to branch out a little, try some of these titles.

Author News:

Jeannette Eyerly the YA author died Aug. 18, 2008 at one hundred years of age.

She was one of the first YA writers to deal with topics like abortion and teen pregnancy.

I checked and all of her books are currently out of print.

Lenore Blegvad, the children's book author died Sept. 5, 2008 at the age of 83. She wrote; First friends illustrated by her husband Eric Blegvad, and

Kitty and Mr. Kipling : neighbors in Vermont

plus more. I'll see if any of her older books are still in print and order those if I am able.

More news later,

Ann

DVD News

DVD News

For teens:
I have ordered copies of 'The Simpsons' seasons 1, 2 and 3. They will be in the Teen collection for check out. If these are popular I'll order more seasons in the future.
I've also ordered 'Sunday School Musical' on DVD. It's kind of a spin-off on 'High School Musical' and I think it wil be popular too.
Here's a brief description of the movie - 'A group of teens enter a song and dance competition, hoping to win the prize money, when they find out that their church is in financial trouble and is about to be torn down.'

Children's DVDs:
I've ordered lots of copies of 'Shrek the Halls'
'102 Dalmatians'
'Kit Kittredge: An American Girl'
and also copies of 'The Pirates Who Don't do Anything: A Veggie Tales Movie'
and
'Born Free' We owned just one copy in the system and it was on videotape.
'Hey There It's Yogi Bear' a nice, mild children's movie.
'Samantha: An American Girl Holiday'
and 'Tinker Bell' ! I've heard that in this movie Tinkerbell has an actual speaking part.

Children's CDs:
Some recent Holiday orders include;
'The Muppets' Green and red Christmas' and
'The Coolest Kidz Bop Christmas Ever!'


More news soon,
Ann


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Happy Halloween!

Children's

Laura Numeroff news: The latest book by Laura Numeroff is called, If You Give a Cat a Cupcake. This cat first appeared in the book, If You Give a Pig a Party. I've ordered lots of copies for the library.

The publisher is offering a cupcake cooking contest to win a trip for 3 to the Wilton School of Cake Decoration in Illinois in conjunction with the release of Numeroff's latest book. Here are the rules if you know any little kids who might want to try it.

http://www.mousecookiebooks.com/play.asp

There are at least two more " If you Give " books in the works.

TEEN News:

Yesterday I sent in an order for Teen CDS including the soundtrack to Twilight.

I alos ordered Demi Lovato's "Don't Forget"

Britney Spears' "Greatest Hits: My Perogative"

Kid Rock's "Rock N Roll Jesus"

Mute Math's "Mutemath" ( Their music is in the Twilight soundtrack)

Adele's "19"

and more.

Ann

More Children's news

Children's news :

The movie 'Beauty and the Beast' is not available to purchase now. Baker & Taylor does not have it and Disney is not selling it right now. I believe it is 'in the vault'.

I see that there are 55 holds on the one remaining copy and that is unfortunate but we can't really do anything about that until Disney decides to release the movie again.

Meanwhile maybe you can encourage the little patrons to reserve 'Kung Fu Panda' or 'Space Chimps' or 'Wall-e'?

'Kung Fu Panda' only has 4 holds today and 'Space Chimps' has just one hold as of today.

Teen News:

Yesterday I sent in an order for 50 copies of the book, 'Robert Pattinson: Eternally Yours' a non-fiction book about the lead actor in the movie 'Twilight'.

There are eight pages of photos in this book!

Ann

Third week in October

What's new at CDO?
Children's - I'm seeing a lot of Holiday titles in the Baker & Taylor carts so I'm ordering lots of these for the system. They are mostly Picture books and Board books, and mostly Christmas themed with some Hanukkah and Kwanzaa stories too.
These should arrive before the holidays since I'm ordering them quite early.

Did you like the book, 'Love that Dog'?
Sharon Creech has a new novel out called, 'Hate That Cat'.
School Library Journal says " Once again, all of the poems are addressed to Miss Stretchberry, and Jack's growing excitement as he discovers the delights of sound ("Tintinnabulation! ") and expression is palpable.


Teens - This week I ordered lots of copies of the movie ' The Incredible Hulk'. We'll see how it compares to the Lou Ferrigno TV version (1978-1982).

CosmoGirl magazine ceases publication in December 2008. If your branch receives CosmoGirl, you will see a substitute magazine to fill out the rest of the subscription. I'm not sure what that substitute magazine will be yet.
It seems as if print media is having a challenging time lately making a profit so we may see other magazines also struggling in the future.

More later,
Ann

Middle of October

Children's news: Remember last year's Lemony Snicket holiday book called, The latke who couldn't stop screaming : a Christmas story ?
Well, Lemony Snicket has another new title just published called, The Lump of Coal.
It's Children's Fiction illustrated by Brett Helquist, 6.25" x 6.25" in size.
'A lump of coal that wants to be an artist, but would settle for making decorative marks on a piece of grilled meat, rolls out of a forgotten bag of charcoal one winter and takes a spin through town seeking a miracle.' is the annotation from the publisher. I ordered 47 copies for the library.
Teen news:
I have recently ordered many copies of these DVDs:
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor with Brendan Fraser
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2, with America Ferrera
Time Bandits with Terry Gilliam and John Cleese
New CDs:
Identified by Vanessa Hudgens
Devil without a Cause by Kid Rock
Funhouse by Pink
That's all for now,
Ann

Books & Movies

There are some new movies coming out this Fall that are based on Children's and Teen books.
I recently saw previews for Twilight, City of Ember, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, and The Tale of Despereaux. I want to see all of them and read the books too of course.
When the preview for Twilight came up on the screen, the teens in the theater all gasped or screamed they were so excited !
http://www.twilightthemovie.com/ is the link to the movie's official web site if you want to take a look.
I'm hoping lots of movie watchers will come to the library and check out all of these books because they loved the movies so much.
And, we'll order the movies once they are realeased onto DVD.
Movies and book tie-ins might make an attractive display somewhere in your library if you have the space?

Monday October 6th

Sarah Ferguson, 'Fergie' has a new children's book just out, called ' Tea for Ruby'.

It's a Picture book.

Jamie Lee Curtis also has a new children's book published called, 'Big Words for Little People'

There are already holds on both of these titles.

For teens, Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen have published a new book called, 'Influence'. It offers 'an intimate look at the lives of these two young moguls, their careers in entertainment and fashion, and the inspirations that kept them on track in both their business and personal lives'.

There isn't a waiting list yet for this book...

Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

'Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist ' is a new movie opening up and there's a great interview with the authors on NPR today, October 3rd. The book is written by Rachel Cohn & David Levithan.
There's been quite a lot of press about this movie and about the main actor, Michael Cera. He was in 'Arrested Development' and 'Juno'.
The library owns the movie 'Juno' if you'd like to reserve it.
I've ordered lots (89) more copies of this book for Express check out! I hope they check out like hot cakes. Now I'm going to have to read it myself.

Kids and Teen book news from CDO

October!

I've been busy ordering many, many new kids and teen books, DVDs, CDs, audio books for the library.

I love the first week of every month because I have a whole new pot of money to use to order great stuff!

Watch for more news from CDO about new Teen and Children's materials.

Ann D.