{"id":11518,"date":"2015-09-09T00:01:09","date_gmt":"2015-09-09T04:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=11518"},"modified":"2015-09-08T15:15:26","modified_gmt":"2015-09-08T19:15:26","slug":"september-is-national-library-card-sign-up-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/september-is-national-library-card-sign-up-month\/","title":{"rendered":"September is National Library Card Sign-Up Month!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now that 2015 summer reading programs are in the books, it’s time to turn our attention to National Library Card Sign-Up Month. My library is loving this year’s Snoopy campaign; we have a “Find the Snoopy” contest underway in order to promote the theme and library cards, as well as a display of our favorite library-themed reads. If you’re not quite ready to display the fall books yet, having a “books about libraries and reading” display should tide you over for a few weeks:<\/p>\n

\"construction\"<\/a><\/p>\n

(image taken from Penguin Random House<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Sally Sutton’s books are must-reads for our construction\/building story times, but Construction<\/span>\u00a0is my top favorite. If you’re familiar with the Sutton\/Lovelock picture books, you know that they are filled with big, bright, and detailed illustrations with a rhyme scheme perfect for reading aloud. Construction<\/span> is no different, but this time, the hard workers are building something very special–a new library!<\/p>\n

\"lolareads\"<\/a><\/p>\n

(image taken from Penguin Random House<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Anna McQuinn’s Lola series is charming and authentic. Being a big sister comes with many responsibilities, including book-sharing time! Just because Lola is able to read to baby Leo doesn’t mean that she misses out on bedtime stories. Not only is Lola Reads to Leo<\/span> an adorable story about reading, it’s a sweet and positive story about having a baby in the family.<\/p>\n

\"lottieparis\"<\/a><\/p>\n

(image taken from Simon & Schuster<\/a>)<\/p>\n

I hope Angela Johnson continues with her Lottie Paris series; Lottie Paris and the Best Place<\/span> is the sequel (of sorts) to Lottie Paris Lives Here<\/span>, which introduced Lottie Paris and her Papa Pete (possibly her grandfather). Lottie Paris and Papa Pete are off to Lottie Paris’s favorite place–the library! Lottie Paris finds awesome books and even makes a new friend. This would be a fine read aloud for preschool or kindergarten visits.<\/p>\n

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\"biblioburro\"<\/a><\/p>\n

(image taken from Monica Brown<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Finally, Waiting for the Biblioburro<\/span> is based on librarian Luis Soriano’s biblioburro work in Colombia. Focusing on a little book-loving girl named Ana, this is an uplifting look at a very different sort of library that features the hard conditions of Ana’s community in a sensitive manner.<\/p>\n

Are you doing any special promotions\/activities for Library Card Sign-Up Month? What are your favorite library\/books\/reading centered titles? Let us know in the comments!<\/p>\n

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Now that 2015 summer reading programs are in the books, it’s time to turn our attention to National Library Card Sign-Up Month. My library is loving this year’s Snoopy campaign; we have a “Find the Snoopy” contest underway in order to promote the theme and library cards, as well as a display of our favorite library-themed reads. If you’re not quite ready to display the fall books yet, having a “books about libraries and reading” display should tide you over for a few weeks: (image taken from Penguin Random House) Sally Sutton’s books are must-reads for our construction\/building story times, but Construction\u00a0is my top favorite. If you’re familiar with the Sutton\/Lovelock picture books, you know that they are filled with big, bright, and detailed illustrations with a rhyme scheme perfect for reading aloud. Construction is no different, but this time, the hard workers are building something very special–a new library!…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[71,22],"tags":[819],"class_list":["post-11518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogger-jennifer-schultz","category-childrens-literature","tag-library-card-sign-up-month"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}