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New book additions

by TeachersPet@evpl on Tuesday, October 14 2008, 5:17pm

A recently-retired teacher donated to the Educational Materials area several book which you teachers and home educators might find useful. They are for older children (grades 5-8+) and thus are a welcome addition to our collection. These social studies...

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It's a Duck! No, it's a Rabbit! It's Duck! Rabbit!

by UndergroundLibrarian@evpl on Thursday, August 20 2009, 9:43am

OK, now it's your turn to take a good look at the picture on the front of this book, and it's nice and big so you can really study it. The two unseen characters inside are in disagreement. One thinks it's a duck quacking, and the other thinks...

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Who Was the Unhappiest President?

by UndergroundLibrarian@evpl on Friday, September 26 2008, 2:30pm

All U. S. Presidents have had their troubles, but Steve Sheinkin (yep, the same guy who wrote King George; What Was His Problem? ) writes about two who were President at the same time. When was that? During the Civil War. Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson...

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Actual Size by Steve Jenkins

by UndergroundLibrarian@evpl on Monday, August 11 2008, 9:31am

I hope I'm never eyeball-to-eyeball with a giant squid! But if I want to know what a giant squid's eyeball looks like in its actual size, I can look in Steve Jenkins' book . And now I'm absolutely sure I don't want to do this in real...

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Boys will be boys!

by HipChick@evpl on Wednesday, March 4 2009, 10:12am

Reading! There is something hilarious about “unmentionables!” Especially for those little boys! There have been some really creative books lately that will make you change your mind about talking in hushed tones. These books will teach you...

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Help Mama Out

by HipChick@evpl on Wednesday, July 1 2009, 2:45pm

This chicken family just keeps running out of things. Mama says, " Put it on the list ," but does anyone listen? There are pancakes but no syrup, cookies but no milk and then something terrible happens! I am a major list maker, and if it isn't...

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Where the Mild Things Are by Maurice Send-up

by bookchick@evpl on Monday, March 28 2011, 9:55am

Take the classic book Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak turn it around; tell from a wild thing named Mog's position and you have the parody Where the Mild Things Are by Maurice Send-up. I don't know how I missed this particular gem when...

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How Long Could YOU Keep From Talking?

by UndergroundLibrarian@evpl on Thursday, November 13 2008, 5:12pm

Dave was normally a pretty noisy 5th-grader. In fact, maybe he was a loudmouth. But after reading about Gandhi, and how for many years he spent one day a week not talking at all, Dave thought it was worth finding out what it would be like to keep silent...

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Filed under: fiction, reviews, Andrew Clements, school stories, kids, books

How to make classical music fun for kids

by FiddleChick@evpl on Monday, August 25 2008, 2:21pm

I've noticed not only as a former child musician but now as an adult musician/teacher that getting young children interested in classical music is almost like pulling teeth! Some kids just aren't interested in the classics. So, how do you get...

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Some Neat New Books in the Educational Materials Area

by TeachersPet@evpl on Friday, February 11 2011, 1:53pm

We have several in a new series called Travel Through (country): come on a journey of discovery. The subjects we just received are the British Isles, the Caribbean, France, India, Japan, Russia, and Spain. Each title includes a locator map and essential...

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Books for Boys and Ghouls

by mrsweasley@evpl on Friday, October 23 2009, 1:50pm

With just about a week left until Halloween, most of the Halloween books in our Holiday collections have been snapped up and won't reappear until at least the Day of the Dead (Nov. 1). But here's a monstrous secret: many spooky stories are not...

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Filed under: tall tales, Halloween, skeletons, spooky stories, haunted house, ghost

The Bus for Us

by UndergroundLibrarian@evpl on Monday, August 25 2008, 4:31pm

"Is this the bus for us, Gus?" That's the question Tess asks on every other page of this book, while they wait to go to school. Big brother Gus answers with varying degrees of patience. Meanwhile more kids keep lining up to ride too, and...

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The Next Newbery?

by UndergroundLibrarian@evpl on Monday, October 5 2009, 2:30pm

I've just read a review of When You Reach Me from our EVPL Newsletters. The reviewer fully expects this book to win the next Newbery Award and/or be high on all the best children's books of the year lists. (Click here to read that review.) Rebecca...

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Beginning Recorder Class Registration Open!

by FiddleChick@evpl on Wednesday, October 8 2008, 1:00pm

Learn the Recorder! This course will help children learn basic skills in reading music, learning rhythm, and defining musical terms while gaining an appreciation of music. At the end of this course, students will perform a selected repertoire for the...

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Have You Heard This Story About Abe Lincoln ?

by UndergroundLibrarian@evpl on Saturday, October 4 2008, 12:27pm

There's a new picture book about Abe Lincoln. Deborah Hopkinson has written Abe Lincoln Crosses a Creek; A Tall, Thin Tale (Introducing His Forgotten Frontier Friend). John Hendrix has drawn the pictures. When Abe was seven , he and his 3-years-older...

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