{"id":459,"date":"2008-05-21T10:29:12","date_gmt":"2008-05-21T17:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=459"},"modified":"2008-08-01T08:40:38","modified_gmt":"2008-08-01T15:40:38","slug":"summertime-summertime-sum-sum-summertime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2008\/05\/summertime-summertime-sum-sum-summertime\/","title":{"rendered":"Summertime, Summertime, Sum Sum Summertime"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a><\/a>Memorial Day is fast approaching, and with that means the beginning of summer, outdoor barbecues, and for children’s\/YA librarians, summer reading program time! If you’re planning a summer-themed storytime, consider adding these books to your repertoire.<\/p>\n

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Patterned after Gertrude Stein’s famous quote from her poem, Sacred Emily<\/em> (“A rose is a rose is a rose”), Summer is Summer<\/em>is a joyous celebration of the ordinary things that make summer great: “A bee is a bee is a bee\/a tree is a tree is a tree\/Cool in the shade\/Pink lemonade\/Summer is summer is summer.” Dandelions blowing in the wind, fishing off a log, baseball games (“rain or shine\/baseball time\/summer is summer is summer”), building sandcastles, and a nighttime boardwalk create an atmosphere of a long, lazy, and carefree summer. The children will enjoy the rhythmic text and bright illustrations, while adults will undoubtedly become nostalgic about their own childhood summers.<\/p>\n

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Preschoolers and kindergartners would probably appreciate Come On, Rain! <\/em>more than toddlers, I couldn’t resist not including one of my favorite summertime books. Growing up in the New Orleans area definitely makes you appreciative of a summer shower and a sweating glass of iced tea, especially when it’s been several days since rain. The young girl in this book is just dying <\/em>for a rainstorm. Tess begs her mother for permission to wear her swimsuit; eventually, her mother relents, just in time for a big rainstorm. Tess and her friends romp in the rain; their spirit inspires the drained adults to rejoice in the rain. Karen Hesse’s text and Jon J. Muth’s illustrations brilliantly evokes the effect a merciless summer day can have and the sheer fun of playing in the rain. I adore this book.<\/p>\n

Do you have any favorite summer-time themed books?<\/p>\n

Books Mentioned:<\/p>\n

Gershator, Phillis and David. Summer is Summer<\/em>. New York: Henry Holt, 2006.<\/p>\n

Hesse, Karen. Come On, Rain!<\/em> New York: Scholastic, 1999.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Memorial Day is fast approaching, and with that means the beginning of summer, outdoor barbecues, and for children’s\/YA librarians, summer reading program time! If you’re planning a summer-themed storytime, consider adding these books to your repertoire. Patterned after Gertrude Stein’s famous quote from her poem, Sacred Emily (“A rose is a rose is a rose”), Summer is Summeris a joyous celebration of the ordinary things that make summer great: “A bee is a bee is a bee\/a tree is a tree is a tree\/Cool in the shade\/Pink lemonade\/Summer is summer is summer.” Dandelions blowing in the wind, fishing off a log, baseball games (“rain or shine\/baseball time\/summer is summer is summer”), building sandcastles, and a nighttime boardwalk create an atmosphere of a long, lazy, and carefree summer. The children will enjoy the rhythmic text and bright illustrations, while adults will undoubtedly become nostalgic about their own childhood summers. Preschoolers and…<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogger-jennifer-schultz","category-childrens-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459","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=459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}