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Goodnight Already!  by Jory John & Benji Davies | Official Book Trailer

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Bear can't wait to go to sleep. But Duck wants to hang out. How will Bear ever fall asleep? Find out in this debut picture book by Jory John, illustrated by Benji Davies. Learn more about Goodnight Already! here: http://www.alreadybooks.com Purchase your copy today!

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Uploaded on Jun 2, 2015 Little Elliot, Big Family by Mike Curato When Mouse heads off to his family reunion, Little Elliot decides go for a walk. As he explores each busy street, he sees families in all shapes and sizes.

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Happy #dotday2015! We did some lovely #paintings for #StoryTime! #RU547 http://t.co/RsOD4Fox6n

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— Erin Hughes (@erinemilyhughes) September 17, 2015

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Pets is the theme of the 7th annual MrsP.com Be-a-Famous Writer Contest. The contest is for K-4 classrooms and the winning classroom is filled with books in every format from the generous sponsors of the contest. Here's what Mrs. P had to say about this year's contest:

How did you come up with the theme of pets?

Mrs. P: I picked this year's theme because children enjoy hearing stories about pets. Children also love to tell stories about pets. Whenever I am visiting classrooms via Skype, the students always ask me how many pets I have in my house. The answer is 1547! Yes, I know, it's a lot but it gives me ample opportunity to demonstrate the art of storytelling. I always leave the students with this message, "If you can tell a story, you can write a story."

I just look at the success of some of the books like Babymouse by Jennifer L. Holm, and know kids will love this theme. And wiith the excitement surrounding the new Dr. Seuss book What Pet Should I Get?, I hope this year's theme will tickle the student's imaginations.

What are some of your favorite books about Pets?

When I was young I can remember reading books starring animals and they have remained lifetime favorites. Stories like, Charlotte's Web, Old Yeller, Black Beauty, Sounder, and The Yearling, made a huge impression on me. I also loved Peter Rabbit, which I have in my Magic Library, and Winnie the Pooh. Oh there are so many. But as you know, I am a lover of the classics.

Any ideas to get students writing?

I think this could be a good writing prompt: Invent a new kind of pet. What would it look like? How would it sound? What would you feed it?

I also have my Imagination Launchers I created with my pet dog Spyri, named after the author of "Heidi," a favorite book of mine when I was little. Imagination Launchers are meant to help kids jump-start their imaginations and get those stories started. These are animated story prompts, and what kid doesn't like something animated? I also have a a printable worksheet kids can color too. Download Imagination launcher worksheet

For your younger students using poetry as a way to get stories ideas flowing can be a good learning device. I created several short animal poems you can share as examples with your students on my Poetry Fun Playlist .

How does the contest work for classrooms?

It is the classroom entering, not an individual student. This will be our 3nd year running the contest this way. The classroom will be recognized as the winner. For example "Mrs. P's 3rd Grade Class from Dreamy Valley" Everyone in the class that wins is winning books and prizes for their school. I make the winning story into a video for my YouTube site, so that they can share it with everyone they know. The video story is illustrated by Robin Robinson. http://www.robinillustration.com / and I also read the story live to the classroom that wins, if they have Skype technology.

The stories are judged by a panel of celebrity judges that includes Peter H. Reynolds children's book author, illustrator, bookshop owner and founder of FableVision. I have been participating in Dot Day with classrooms every year, and was so thrilled that he accepted my invitation to be a judge. He is such an advocate for creativity and children of all ages. And I just love his book, The Dot, as it really teachers children that it's A O. K. to make your unique mark on the world, and that's what my writing contest is all about.

And of course, Mr. Schu, having you as a judge is a real honor. With your vast knowledge of children's books, who better to spot a great story! (Thank you, Mrs. P!)

I also act as a judge. It's my favorite thing in the world to read the contest entries every year!

What are the details of the contest?

The contest is for classrooms only and is FREE to enter. Parents you can still participate by telling your child's teacher about it.

I invite classrooms to write a story on the topic of PETS no less than 250 words and not to exceed 1,000 words. It may be fiction or non-fiction. Any classroom from Kindergarten through 4th grade may enter. Just one story per classroom! It can be a collaborative story, or teachers can have their class vote on which child's story to enter. Find all the details at my contest website.

My amazing sponsors are providing books galore that will benefit the schools of the winners! Books in every format, real books, digital books and audio books! And what school doesn't need books? See my for details of what classrooms will win. Meet my sponsors : Education Resources, , FableVision Learning, & Powell's Books .

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Mrs. P's 7th Annual "Be-A-Famous-Writer" Contest

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Pets is the theme of the 7th annual MrsP.com Be-a-Famous Writer Contest. The contest is for K-4 classrooms and the winning classroom is filled with books in every format from the generous sponsors of the contest. Here's what Mrs. P had to say about this year's contest: How did you come up with the theme of pets?

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Jumpstart's Read for the Record brings together millions of adults and children around the world each year to read the same book on the same day in order to raise awareness about the critical importance of early literacy and access to high-quality books. This year Read for the Record will take place on October 29, 2020.

Jumpstart's 15th annual Read for the Record is a high-visibility annual fall campaign engaging over 2 million participants who aim to:

Increase awareness about the critical importance and impact of early literacy

Make high-quality children's books accessible for all children

Provide support for Jumpstart for Young Children's work with early learners in underserved communities across the country

Sharing high-quality picture books with young children is at the core of Jumpstart's mission. Each year, Jumpstart selects a campaign book that fosters language and social-emotional development, honors the diversity in our world, has a strong narrative, and appeals to young children. That book is read across the country and around the world by adults and young readers on Read for the Record day.

Jumpstart's team works with our selected publishing partner to create a special paperback edition of the campaign book with exclusive content.

Available in English or Spanish
* Activity guides and resources that bring the book to life
* Tips for reading with young children
* Vocabulary words
* Comprehension questions

Birth to Five

Children with access to high-quality early education programs enter kindergarten better prepared to succeed.

Lifelong Impact

Long-term outcomes of high-quality education programs include higher high school graduation rates and higher earned salaries.

$1 Spent = $13 Saved

High-quality early education programs provide the greatest return on social investment documented in social science. Every dollar invested saves taxpayers up to $13 in future costs.

Evelyn Del Rey Is Moving Away by Meg Medina is a celebration of lasting friendship, the power of connection, and encountering change.

Contact our Read for the Record team via email.

Newbery Medal winner Meg Medina's picture book named 2020 Read for the Record pick BOSTON, MA-Jumpstart, a national early education organization, announced their partnership with Somerville, Massachusetts-based independent children's book publisher

Whether you're leading an individual classroom or engaging an entire community, Jumpstart's Read for the Record is a powerful way to come together around for the power of reading. Schools, libraries, museums, and other organizations help bring Jumpstart's Read for the Record alive in communities around the world. From large group readings in school auditoriums to story hours and community-wide reading festivals, Read for the Record is truly an opportunity to rally your school, library, or larger community around the importance of high-quality early learning experiences.

The best part about Read for the Record is that everyone is invited to join in on the fun! No matter where you live or how old you are, all you need is a copy of the official campaign book or access to a computer with internet. When you pledge to read, you'll receive campaign news and updates on all things Read for the Record. Plus, we'll include the number of children and adults you plan to read with in our record-breaking total.

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Jumpstart's Read for the Record - Jumpstart

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Jumpstart's Read for the Record brings together millions of adults and children around the world each year to read the same book on the same day in order to raise awareness about the critical importance of early literacy and access to high-quality books. This year Read for the Record will take place on October 29, 2020.

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Dan Santat- American Library Association 2015: My Caldecott Influence

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All recipients of the 2015 Randolph Caldecott Medal and Honors were asked to record videos of Caldecott books which influenced us. I spoke about David Shannon's No, David!

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Number One Sam by Greg Pizzoli Book Trailer

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Order the book right here: http://printcenterstore.myshopify.com/collections/pizzoli They're off! Sam is the best race-car driver in history-he is number one at every race! But when his best friend, Maggie, shows that she has racing talent of her own, Sam doesn't know how to handle coming in second place.

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Backseat A-B-See by Maria van Lieshout - Book Trailer

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Backseat A-B-See makes sitting in the backseat much more fun. Using familiar road signs, this striking book introduces little ones to the alphabet and the world around them. This fresh and dynamic picture book will entertain and educate at home, in the classroom, and on the go.

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http://www.randomhousekids.com/books/detail/214532-bluebird#.UWWL6URQlnh In his most beautiful and moving work to date, The New Yorker illustrator Bob Staake explores the universal themes of loneliness, bullying, and the importance of friendship. In this emotional picture book, readers will be captivated as they follow the journey of a bluebird as he develops a friendship with a young boy and ultimately risks his life to save the boy from harm.

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The Watermelon Seed by Greg Pizzoli Book Trailer

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With perfect comic pacing, Greg Pizzoli introduces us to one funny crocodile who has one big fear: swallowing a watermelon seed. What will he do when his greatest fear is realized? Will vines sprout out his ears? Will his skin turn pink? This crocodile has a wild imagination that kids will love.

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OPEN THIS LITTLE BOOK by Jesse Klausmeier, illustrated by Suzy Lee -- BOOK TRAILER

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What will you find when you open this book? A fun story? Sweet characters? Lively pictures? Yes--and so much more! Open this little book and you will find . . . another book. And another. And another. Where will all these books take you? Open this little book to find out.

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How Rocket Learned to Read for iPad - Random House Children's Books

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Visit http://RHKidsApps.com Play and learn: http://www.readlikerocket.com Buy: http://www.randomhousekids.com/books/detail/80161-how-rocket-learned-to-read?isbn=9780375985645#.Ud8RY2Ra1V8 The New York Times Bestselling picture book that is teaching kids to read is now available as a playful interactive iPad app. Featuring the original story and artwork by Tad Hills, with delightful animations, lots of interactivity, and two bonus early-literacy games to play, children will be captivated by each enchanting page.

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Happy September 1st! Happy Library Card Sign-Up Month! I love celebrating book birthdays, literacy events, authors, and month-long celebrations. LibrarySparks' activity calendar is a wonderful resource to help you and your students keep track of what's going on throughout September.

1. Did you reach for the August/September 2015 issue of to page 28? ( LibrarySparks and turn Click here or here for the web version.)

2. Which events appealed to you? Were you inspired to incorporate a website into a unit or create a display?

3. Do you have a Makerspace? Could your students construct something on Skyscraper Day? What about for Roald Dahl Day?

4. How will you share the quotations scattered throughout the calendar with your students?
5. Did you figure out that I created the calendar? :)

6. Are you ready to have a FANTASTIC month?

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Happy September 1st! Happy Library Card Sign-Up Month! I love celebrating book birthdays, literacy events, authors, and month-long celebrations. LibrarySparks' activity calendar is a wonderful resource to help you and your students keep track of what's going on throughout September. 1. Did you reach for the August/September 2015 issue of to page 28?

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The Right Word is on its way to one of my students in #RU547.

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Watch John Schu's Vine "The Right Word is on its way to one of my students in #RU547." taken on 14 September 2015. It has 2 likes. The entertainment network where videos and personalities get really big, really fast. Download Vine to watch videos, remixes and trends before they blow up.

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How do you digitize a 17th-century book that's always been considered too fragile to open?

Very, very carefully.

Technically known as Shi zhu zhai shu hua pu, it is more commonly known as the Manual of Calligraphy and Painting. It is also considered to be the earliest Chinese book printed by the technique of polychrome xylography. The technique, also known as douban, was invented and perfected by Hu Zhengyan in the 17 th century, according to the Cambridge University Library, which owns the book.

"The method involves the use of multiple printing blocks which successively apply different colored inks to the paper to reproduce the effect of watercolor painting," explains the library. "Great skill is required to achieve a convincing result, but the beautiful gradations of color in this work have led to its reputation as 'perhaps the most beautiful set of prints ever made.'"

"The seventeenth century was a period of conspicuous consumption in China, and books like this were luxury objects created for pleasure rather than learning," explains the British Museum. "Great attention was paid to the creation of each illustration. Care was taken so that the subtle tonalities of color and fine brushwork of Chinese painting could be reproduced in the medium of print."

The book includes 140 illustrations, divided into eight categories: birds, plums, orchids, bamboos, fruit, stones, ink drawings (round fans) and miscellany. This particular copy of the book is thought to have been made in 1633 by the Ten Bamboo Studio in Nanjing, and is estimated to be worth millions.

And nobody had ever seen it.

"The binding is so fragile, and the manual so delicate, that until it was digitized, we have never been able to let anyone look through it or study it-despite its undoubted importance to scholars," writes Charles Aylmer, head of the Chinese department at Cambridge University Library.

"The book is printed and bound in a special way call a butterfly binding," says Grant Young, head of digital content for the digital content unit of the Cambridge University Library. "The leaves are printed on one side only, folded in half and glued together along the outer fold," explains the library. "This copy has been identified by the leading scholar of this work as the finest and only extant complete copy in the original binding of what he describes as the 'second superstate' of the first edition."

In fact, it was the binding that was part of what makes this work so special, Young says. "One of the special things about this copy of the book was that it retained its original nearly 400-year-old binding and covers." Although it had been reprinted many times, complete sets of early editions in the original binding are extremely rare, Aylmer writes.

But that's been the challenge in seeing the book to-date: Fear of damaging the binding. "It's not that the book was impossible to open," Young says. "As you can observe, we have been able to open it to photograph it. It's just that we had not let people open it previously because of the risk of damaging it."

This is where the "very, very carefully" comes in. Rather than using a scanner, the book was digitized, with assistance from the curator and conservators, by photographing the pages with professional, high-resolution (80 megapixel) cameras, Young says.

The result is that, for the first time, people all over the world can see the exquisite images. "Each image is followed by a text or poem, interspersed with instructions for basic artist technique, like the correct way to hold a paintbrush," writes Meg Miller in Co. Design. "For the 200-plus years it stayed in print, the book had a huge influence on color printing all across China."

The book is just one of the items from the library's Chinese collection that have recently been digitized. Other recently digitized items from the Chinese collection include:

One of the world's earliest printed books, a Buddhist text dated between 1127 and 1175

'The Manual of Famine Relief,' a 19th-century manuscript with instructions for the distribution of emergency rations to famine victims, including practical advice about foraging for natural substitutes to normal foodstuffs in the event of an emergency

A 14th-century banknote, printed on mulberry paper, long before it was used in Europe-and threatening decapitation to forgers

Three oracle bones(ox shoulder blades and turtle shells), which record information on a wide range of matters including warfare, agriculture, hunting and medical problems, as well as genealogical, meteorological and astronomical data, and are the earliest surviving examples of Chinese writing in the world

It's the Manual of Calligraphy, though, that's really captured people's attention, due to the exquisite illustrations. Digitizing it has enabled us to open not just the book, but a window to another time.

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Library Digitizes 17th-Century Chinese Art Book | Laserfiche

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How do you digitize a 17th-century book that's always been considered too fragile to open? Very, very carefully. Technically known as Shi zhu zhai shu hua pu, it is more commonly known as the Manual of Calligraphy and Painting . It is also considered to be the earliest Chinese book printed by the technique of polychrome xylography.