Parenting Coach

For a wonderful speaker/parenting coach for your FFL programs:

Susan Stone Belton has appeared several times at FFL events, conducted programs throughout the San Jose Public Library system and was even invited to conduct an SJPL, library wide inservice. She is excellent, warm and straightforward. Parents/caregivers have found her style very conducive to participation.

- Deborah Estreicher, San Jose

Our Families for Literacy Songbook

Oakland's Families for Literacy program recently held a family night about music, where we sang many of our favorite songs. Here's the cover, introduction and table of contents from the songbook containing the songs we sang. (It looks a little odd here because it's formatted to print as a booklet, with staggered pages.) If you'd like a copy of the full songbook, contact Ann (click on that link to see my profile, which has my email address). Happy singing!

In honor of Earth Day

In honor of Earth Day, here are the covers of my program booklets on Recycling: "Talking about Trash" and "Trash to Treasures." You can contact me if you want either booklet - just click the link on the side for Oakland Public Library, Second Start.

Bees, Beetles and Butterflies

Dear friends,

Here is an amazing, 166-page illustrated pdf of stories, poems and songs I got from PUBYAC, a listserv of children's and young adult librarians:

http://www.story-lovers.com/bugbookv.2.pdf

Jackie Baldwin, the creator of this magnificent book, says:
..."because of its length (166 pages, 125 stories, 32 contributors) and the number of full-color photos included, it takes 1.5 minutes to download onto my computer, but I've heard from others that it can take nearly five minutes, depending on a computer's speed. Another friend did it in 25 seconds. My suggestion: go make a cuppa tea while the download is going on! ...If you decide to print out the whole book, I've designed it without any blank pages, so you can do odd numbers 1-165, then even numbers 2-166. But I would suggest that you split it into three sections, just to be sure that the printing is going as expected. I usually split it 50, 50, 66. You'll be doing double-sided pages, so you should use a heavier paper..."

Incidentally, if you are interested in PUBYAC, here is their link:
https://mail.prairienet.org/mailman/listinfo/pubyac
If you decide to subscribe, I highly recommend you get the digest (otherwise your mailbox will be flooded with a gazillion emails every day!)

Why Babies Need Books

This is a handout prepared by Sandi Cohn, Marin Literacy Project. For the complete document, please contact Deborah at Partners in Reading.