|
|
|
|
|
|
Booktalking Bonanza
|
| Betsy Diamant-Cohen and Selma K. Levi |
|
Item Number: 978-0-8389-0965-2 |
|
|
|
Publisher: ALA Editions |
|
Price: $45.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
240 pages
6" x 9"
Softcover
ISBN-13: 978-0-8389-0965-2
Year Published: September 2008
AP Categories: A, B, C, D, G, H
Read sample chapters and the book's index now!
Transform your booktalks to engage your audience! With multimedia infusing nearly every activity, today’s audiences from toddlers to elders expect lively, interactive presentations. Now two award-winning experts outline their kid-tested, proven models for enlivening traditional booktalks.
Get up to speed with exciting media technologies like YouTube videos, online music, PowerPoint presentations, Internet resources, and audio and video from the library collection, along with food, games, puppets, and magic or science experiments. Using these ten themed step-by-step presentations, it's easy! Quickly add whole new dimensions to the staid booktalk and
Actively engage your young audiences
Access ready-to-go 30-minute programs
Present dynamic, interactive talks
Enthrall listeners with spellbinding multimedia
Each chapter offers a complete script, along with "stage directions"—which song or film clip or web link to insert when. End-of-chapter resource lists encourage librarians to tailor the subject matter to grades 4–6 or to YA audiences. Enticing, kid-friendly themes include lightning, wishes, mummies, immigration, dreams, body parts, lies, art, names, and cats and dogs.
Children's librarians, school library media specialists, and teachers will welcome these time-saving programs. Adult and YA librarians and subject specialists will be inspired to jazz things up in their own presentations. Here's the know-how to make booktalks crackle with multimedia excitement.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Lightning: A Bolt from the Blue
2. Immigration: Hello, New Home!
3. Wishes: Wishing Well
4. Lies: Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire
5. Dreams: All You Have to Do Is Dream
6. Body Parts: Missing, Extra, and Just Plain Strange
7. Art: Every Picture Tells a Story; Every Story Draws a Picture
8. Mummies: Mum’s the Word!
9. Names: What’s in a Name?
10. Cats and Dogs: It’s Raining Cats and Dogs
11. Booktalking with Pizzazz: Using Science Experiments, Music, Magic, Crafts, Creative Dramatics, Video and Film, Role-Playing, Games, and the Internet with Booktalks
12. Trials, Tribulations, Testimonials, and Tips
Appendix
Index
About the Authors
Dr. Betsy Diamant-Cohen is the Children’s Programming Specialist at the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore. Library Journalnamed her a 2004 "Mover and Shaker." In 2005, she earned a doctorate in communications design from the University of Baltimore, and she holds her master’s in library science from Rutgers University.
Selma Levi has been the supervisor of the children’s department of the Central Library of the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore since 1987. She is a professional storyteller and has done numerous presentations on storytelling and children's programming at both the state and national levels. She earned her master’s degree in library science from Indiana University and served on the 1987 Newbery Award Committee. |
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Storytime Magic: 400 Fingerplays, Flannelboards, and Other Activities
|
|
Item Number:
978-0-8389-0977-5
|
|
|
|
A unique addition to the programming shelf, this treasure trove of storytime tools is designed to help veteran librarians refresh and enliven ongoing programs, while providing novice storytime planners what they need to get started! |
|
|
|
Price: $47.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
A Box Full of Tales
|
|
Item Number:
978-0-8389-0960-7
|
|
|
|
Story boxes offer a simple method for capturing ideas, talent, creativity, and resources available in your library. |
|
|
|
Price: $50.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|