What's new?

Hi Children's and Teen Librarians,

Several new movies are coming up in the Fall that are from Teen and Kids books. I'll be ordering more copies of the books for the library so those movie goers will have enough copies to read after they've seen the movie.

Some of the movies are ;

Where the Wild Things Are

Tin Tin

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs

Fantastic Mr. Fox

Cirque du Freak

The Lovely Bones (not a Teen title but I think it has a lot of teen readers)

Precious - based on the novel Push

Also in movie news, there is a new movie coming out in October called 'Whip It' produced by Drew Barrymore and starring Ellen Page that's from a teen book and looks like a fun movie,

http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/07/15/whip-it-movie-trailer/

I am ordering lots of copies of the book and when the movie hits DVD I'll order that too.

Thank you to the Green Valley Friends group who generously gave thousands of dollars to our materials budget this year! I had a great time spending that money.

Thank you!

Mid August

AUGUST

Children's news:

There is a new Amelia Bedelia book out called 'Amelia Bedelia's First Day of School' by Herman Parish and Lynne Avril.

Herman Parish is a nephew of Peggy Parish. This is a Picture book rather than a reader and gives us a look at Amelia when she is a kid in first grade so I think it will be a fun story.

I ordered lots of copies for the library.

You should be seeing new picture books about Halloween arriving soon too, and other holiday books soon.

Teen News:

The publishers are really jumping on the 'Twilight' books popularity and coming out with more vampire stories and other spin-offs.

I just ordered copies of 'Wuthering Heights' from Harper Teen and the cover has a beautiful rose

image on it, plus a medallion on the cover that says,

'Bella & Edward's Favorite Book'. So maybe a lot of Bella and Edward fans will come to the library and want to read 'Wuthering Heights' ?

I tried to copy and paste the image but I guess it is copyrighted so I couldn't do it.

Music CDs:

I ordered a batch of music CDs that I think teens will like if they're not already getting the music from iTunes or somewhere else. These artists were some I pulled from the recent Billboard charts.

These CDs include:

Sugarland Enjoy the Ride

Sugarland Love on the Inside

Paramore The Final Riot

Kanye West Late registration

Black Eyed Peas Bridging the Gap

More news later,

Ann

News in August

Hi Children's librarians
I've been ordering many new books lately and some older titles from the reading lists you have been sending my way. Thank you for those lists, they help me keep in touch with what kids are asking for when they are preparing for school.
I've been ordering Halloween children's books this week that should be here before Halloween and today I am seeing Christmas and Hanukkah titles in the B & T carts.
I'm Not Santa and Corduroy's Hanukkah are two new board books that I will be ordering this week.
I'm Not Santa is by one of my favorite author/illustrators, Jonathan Allen who wrote I'm Not Cute.

More news to come...
Ann