{"id":12136,"date":"2015-12-24T00:01:21","date_gmt":"2015-12-24T05:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=12136"},"modified":"2015-12-18T10:06:38","modified_gmt":"2015-12-18T15:06:38","slug":"picture-books-the-greatest-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/picture-books-the-greatest-gift\/","title":{"rendered":"Picture books, the greatest gift"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Last year I read over 500 picture books. I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve read quite that many this year, but I have kept up a steady pace. I certainly have changed the way I look at picture books. Spending a year on the Caldecott committee does that \u2013 I will never look at a picture book the same way again, and this is a good thing. For one, it has made it easier for me to share how to look at the art in these books. I have been working with our local school board to help teachers look more closely at picture books. I spent a week in early December with the Grade 1 teachers. I showed them what I saw in the books, and they shared what they saw. I was amazed that I was able to find something new in The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend<\/em>. I consider all the books our committee chose<\/a> as friends. I carry them in my car. They are lifelong companions. They are gifts.<\/p>\n

Speaking of book gifts. This makes me so proud to be Canadian that I am shouting it from my virtual rooftops. IBBY Canada<\/a>, Groundwood Books , Sydney Smith, and JonArno Lawson have banded together to give a gift to the Syrian refugees<\/a> that are coming to our country. Along with a copy of Sidewalk Flowers<\/em>, each book will contain a card inviting them to take a trip to their local public library. It makes my librarian heart melt, this does.<\/p>\n

So whatever you are doing this day, be it celebrating with family, eating cookies, working, lounging by the fire, or just relaxing, enjoy a gift. Find a favourite picture book and read it aloud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last year I read over 500 picture books. I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve read quite that many this year, but I have kept up a steady pace. I certainly have changed the way I look at picture books. Spending a year on the Caldecott committee does that \u2013 I will never look at a picture book the same way again, and this is a good thing. For one, it has made it easier for me to share how to look at the art in these books. I have been working with our local school board to help teachers look more closely at picture books. I spent a week in early December with the Grade 1 teachers. I showed them what I saw in the books, and they shared what they saw. I was amazed that I was able to find something new in The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend. I…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"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":[66,210,22,10,36],"tags":[189,194,876],"class_list":["post-12136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogger-angela-reynolds","category-books-2","category-childrens-literature","category-committees","category-slice-of-life","tag-books","tag-caldecott","tag-gifts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12136","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\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}