WEBVTT 00:00:20.749 --> 00:00:25.149 Hello, I'm Patrick Adams. And I'm Caroline Legere. 00:00:25.679 --> 00:00:29.280 And this is Librarians of Littles, a podcast 00:00:29.280 --> 00:00:33.920 where we discuss books, give makerspace ideas 00:00:33.920 --> 00:00:37.719 and tips and tricks for working with our youngest 00:00:37.719 --> 00:00:41.240 learners in the library setting. Today we will 00:00:41.240 --> 00:00:44.520 be discussing two books that come from the Texas 00:00:44.520 --> 00:00:48.439 2x2 list. The Texas 2x2 list is a list that is 00:00:48.439 --> 00:00:51.399 created annually by the Texas Library Association. 00:00:51.740 --> 00:00:55.979 It is a list of books that are perfect for children 00:00:55.979 --> 00:01:01.359 between the ages of 2 and 2nd grade. And so today 00:01:01.359 --> 00:01:03.479 we'll be discussing two of the books that come 00:01:03.479 --> 00:01:10.719 from the 2025 Texas 2x2 list. The first book 00:01:10.719 --> 00:01:15.879 is The Man Who Didn't Like Animals. It is written 00:01:15.879 --> 00:01:19.480 by Deborah Underwood and illustrated by LeUyen 00:01:19.480 --> 00:01:26.200 Fam. It is published by Clarion Books, an imprint 00:01:26.200 --> 00:01:32.379 of HarperCollins Publishers in 2024. This book 00:01:32.379 --> 00:01:36.980 has won a couple different awards and been on 00:01:36.980 --> 00:01:39.420 a couple lists including the Texas 2x2 list. 00:01:39.659 --> 00:01:42.739 The awards that it's received include The Children's 00:01:42.739 --> 00:01:47.079 Favorite Award Grades K -2 Selection for 2025. 00:01:47.859 --> 00:01:51.859 The Golden Kite Award Picture Book Text Winner 00:01:51.859 --> 00:01:57.400 for 2025. Librarian Favorite Award Grades K -2 00:01:57.400 --> 00:02:01.959 Selection 2025. The New York Times Best Illustrated 00:02:01.959 --> 00:02:06.700 Children's Book Selection for 2024. And the Teacher's 00:02:06.700 --> 00:02:11.300 Favorite Award Grades K -2 Selection for 2025. 00:02:11.610 --> 00:02:14.349 And for our author history, Deborah Underwood 00:02:14.349 --> 00:02:17.569 grew up in Walla Walla, Washington. As a child, 00:02:17.729 --> 00:02:20.169 she had dreams of being an astronaut, a singer, 00:02:20.349 --> 00:02:23.490 and a writer, and she now writes children's books 00:02:23.490 --> 00:02:26.889 and sings in a choir. Her father is a math professor 00:02:26.889 --> 00:02:29.639 and her mother is an English teacher. After college, 00:02:30.539 --> 00:02:33.879 she worked as a street musician and then writing 00:02:33.879 --> 00:02:36.759 memos for accountants. She eventually began to 00:02:36.759 --> 00:02:39.639 write kid stories. She jokingly admits that the 00:02:39.639 --> 00:02:41.680 first stories she wrote were pretty awful, but 00:02:41.680 --> 00:02:44.479 she kept trying. She has a group of author friends 00:02:44.479 --> 00:02:46.740 that all help each other by reading manuscripts 00:02:46.740 --> 00:02:48.879 and giving suggestions. She has written over 00:02:48.879 --> 00:02:51.659 30 children's books and has a pet cat named Bella 00:02:51.659 --> 00:02:54.360 that is a great help to the writing process. 00:02:54.650 --> 00:02:58.770 And she, as we've said, she's written 30 children's 00:02:58.770 --> 00:03:01.830 books, so she's got a plethora of books. But 00:03:01.830 --> 00:03:04.969 some of her other books include The Quiet Book, 00:03:05.310 --> 00:03:11.150 illustrated by Renata Luska. Outside Inside, 00:03:11.449 --> 00:03:15.310 illustrated by Cindy Derby. The Panda Problem, 00:03:15.969 --> 00:03:20.639 illustrated by Hannah Marks. Part -time princess 00:03:20.639 --> 00:03:24.300 girl by day princess by night illustrated by 00:03:24.300 --> 00:03:31.259 Cambria Evans and Bernard writes a book illustrated 00:03:31.259 --> 00:03:36.680 by Misa Saburi and the cat series Illustrated 00:03:36.680 --> 00:03:42.310 by Claudia Ruda And the illustrator of this book 00:03:42.310 --> 00:03:46.550 is Lee Nguyen Pham, the award -winning and critically 00:03:46.550 --> 00:03:49.409 acclaimed illustrator of more than 100 books 00:03:49.409 --> 00:03:52.650 for children. Born in Vietnam, LeUyen and 00:03:52.650 --> 00:03:55.310 her family left the country in the final days 00:03:55.310 --> 00:03:58.530 of the Vietnam War. Growing up in Southern California, 00:03:59.349 --> 00:04:01.969 Lee Nguyen always loved to doodle and draw, but 00:04:01.969 --> 00:04:04.409 her mother insisted she become a lawyer. For 00:04:04.409 --> 00:04:07.569 two years, Lee Nguyen attended UCLA, where she 00:04:07.569 --> 00:04:11.400 majored in political silence. Fortunately, the 00:04:11.400 --> 00:04:13.580 head of the art department spotted her artistic 00:04:13.580 --> 00:04:16.300 talent and helped her change course. Li Wen got 00:04:16.300 --> 00:04:19.079 an interview at the prestigious Art Center College 00:04:19.079 --> 00:04:22.139 of Design in Pasadena, won a scholarship to pay 00:04:22.139 --> 00:04:24.220 the tuition, and spent the next three years in 00:04:24.220 --> 00:04:26.639 an accelerated program and earned a degree in 00:04:26.639 --> 00:04:29.920 illustration. Following school, Li Wen worked 00:04:29.920 --> 00:04:33.240 as a layout artist for DreamWorks feature animation 00:04:33.240 --> 00:04:36.279 and illustrated books on the side. These days, 00:04:36.480 --> 00:04:38.740 Li Wen lives in Los Angeles with her husband 00:04:38.740 --> 00:04:41.300 Alex, who is also an artist, and their two sons, 00:04:41.600 --> 00:04:44.819 Adrian and Leo. She also has a cat named Sardine 00:04:44.819 --> 00:04:48.240 and a gecko named Kumquat. She adores traveling 00:04:48.240 --> 00:04:51.120 and speaking, but given her way, she would spend 00:04:51.120 --> 00:04:53.860 all her time making Star Wars -themed birthday 00:04:53.860 --> 00:04:59.899 cakes! I think I love her. Yes. Seems amazing. 00:05:01.040 --> 00:05:04.560 And she is another one that has done so many 00:05:04.560 --> 00:05:08.139 amazing books. She's been a part of a ton of 00:05:08.139 --> 00:05:12.240 books, including Lunar New Year Love Story written 00:05:12.240 --> 00:05:17.730 by Jean Luen Yang. She has done All of the Friends 00:05:17.730 --> 00:05:21.430 books by Shannon Hale, including Real Friends 00:05:21.430 --> 00:05:25.649 and Best Friends. She did the illustrations for 00:05:25.649 --> 00:05:29.050 all of the Princess in Black series written by 00:05:29.050 --> 00:05:33.569 Shannon and Dean Hale. She did the illustrations 00:05:33.569 --> 00:05:38.709 for Grace for President by Kelly DiPuscio and 00:05:38.709 --> 00:05:43.009 the Itty Bitty Kitty Corn series by Shannon Hale. 00:05:43.160 --> 00:05:46.620 and the Blackberry Farm series by Adele Griffin. 00:05:47.100 --> 00:05:49.399 Also, she did the illustrations for the Alvin 00:05:49.399 --> 00:05:53.300 Ho series by Lenore Look. She was the author 00:05:53.300 --> 00:05:57.879 and illustrator of a book called Outside Inside. 00:05:59.360 --> 00:06:02.639 And for this book, the summary, there once was 00:06:02.639 --> 00:06:05.939 a man who didn't like animals, or so he thought. 00:06:06.439 --> 00:06:08.720 As animals show up on the man's doorstep, he 00:06:08.720 --> 00:06:11.850 finds that he has different hobbies in common 00:06:11.850 --> 00:06:14.990 with each of them and slowly learns to like them. 00:06:15.250 --> 00:06:18.189 More and more animals begin to gather. First 00:06:18.189 --> 00:06:21.350 he starts with a simple cat and then a second 00:06:21.350 --> 00:06:25.470 and then a dog and a second and then pigs and 00:06:25.470 --> 00:06:29.410 goats and cows and more begin to collect in the 00:06:29.410 --> 00:06:33.279 man's tiny home. the man's neighbors begin to 00:06:33.279 --> 00:06:35.259 complain the man realizes that his tiny home 00:06:35.259 --> 00:06:38.079 is not the place for these animal and turns them 00:06:38.079 --> 00:06:41.920 out as the animals leave his heart breaks as 00:06:41.920 --> 00:06:45.259 he realizes even though he loves his tiny tidy 00:06:45.259 --> 00:06:49.740 home he loves the animals more he reunites with 00:06:49.740 --> 00:06:53.699 the animals and starts a rather famous farm as 00:06:53.699 --> 00:07:00.379 we find that this man is old MacDonald so I thought 00:07:00.379 --> 00:07:05.120 this was an incredibly cute story. I love how 00:07:05.120 --> 00:07:09.620 well written it is. The text is pretty simplistic, 00:07:10.560 --> 00:07:13.899 but it just tells such a warm and wonderful story. 00:07:14.620 --> 00:07:16.660 It will definitely keep the kids' attention. 00:07:17.639 --> 00:07:21.600 The illustrations are a beautiful, warm, soft 00:07:21.600 --> 00:07:25.319 kind of illustration that... it just makes you 00:07:25.319 --> 00:07:27.740 feel just really kind of comfortable. That's 00:07:27.740 --> 00:07:30.139 how I would describe it. It's just like comfortable, 00:07:30.139 --> 00:07:33.720 beautiful artwork. The twist at the end of the 00:07:33.720 --> 00:07:36.079 story where we find out that the man is Old MacDonald 00:07:36.079 --> 00:07:40.439 is just a clever kind of way to introduce the 00:07:40.439 --> 00:07:44.379 students to this idea that before Old MacDonald 00:07:44.379 --> 00:07:46.160 had a farm, maybe he did something different. 00:07:46.319 --> 00:07:49.579 So it's a cute kind of twist on the story and 00:07:49.579 --> 00:07:52.949 it's... just a heartwarming story of a man who 00:07:52.949 --> 00:07:55.209 finally decides you know what animals aren't 00:07:55.209 --> 00:07:57.810 so bad and he really does have a heart for them 00:07:57.810 --> 00:08:00.449 i think that our students will really love that 00:08:00.449 --> 00:08:02.970 because so many of our students love animals 00:08:02.970 --> 00:08:07.449 as well and so that will really grab their attention 00:08:07.449 --> 00:08:09.290 and then just the fact that throughout the book 00:08:09.290 --> 00:08:12.370 there are a lot of like animal noises being made 00:08:12.370 --> 00:08:15.810 so i think that will be just oh it's just such 00:08:15.810 --> 00:08:19.259 a sweet and cute story I love it a lot and I 00:08:19.259 --> 00:08:21.939 think my students will love it as well. I think 00:08:21.939 --> 00:08:23.740 I'm going to give this one a five out of five 00:08:23.740 --> 00:08:27.560 bookmarks. I think this is just really a perfect 00:08:27.560 --> 00:08:31.759 story. I really enjoyed it. Yeah, I agree. I 00:08:31.759 --> 00:08:34.039 love this book a lot. Yeah, when you picked this 00:08:34.039 --> 00:08:37.240 one, I thought it was interesting because I didn't 00:08:37.240 --> 00:08:40.419 realize it was on the two by two list at all. 00:08:40.620 --> 00:08:43.220 But when I was I was putting together a book 00:08:43.220 --> 00:08:45.580 order this last week and this was definitely 00:08:45.580 --> 00:08:49.000 on it and I went ahead and like picked it for 00:08:49.000 --> 00:08:53.679 order for my library and Because I just all the 00:08:53.679 --> 00:08:55.159 things you said like I just fell in love with 00:08:55.159 --> 00:08:57.240 it right away and I love that It's kind of it 00:08:57.240 --> 00:09:00.200 also encourages kids to kind of try something 00:09:00.200 --> 00:09:03.200 new like yeah, you think you don't like animals 00:09:03.200 --> 00:09:08.440 right now but Maybe if you give it a chance you 00:09:08.440 --> 00:09:11.059 might end up liking it you never know and kind 00:09:11.059 --> 00:09:13.320 of encourages kids to have an open mind a little 00:09:13.320 --> 00:09:16.779 bit and then like with it being old McDonald 00:09:16.779 --> 00:09:21.720 at the end, I think that's a rather clever plot 00:09:21.720 --> 00:09:24.659 twist there where the kids can can just relate 00:09:24.659 --> 00:09:26.980 to it a lot more actually, because it's just 00:09:26.980 --> 00:09:29.659 something that's so very familiar to them. But 00:09:29.659 --> 00:09:33.039 anyhow, I yeah, I put this on my order list independently 00:09:33.039 --> 00:09:35.799 of all this. And because it's just an adorable, 00:09:36.220 --> 00:09:39.980 fun book. So it really is a good choice. Thank 00:09:39.980 --> 00:09:43.860 you. Yes, this was like such a great story. And 00:09:44.379 --> 00:09:47.240 Like you said, yeah, I think that a lot of kids 00:09:47.240 --> 00:09:50.200 will realize hey, you know, I I'm not really 00:09:50.200 --> 00:09:53.320 that kind of a animal person But that's what 00:09:53.320 --> 00:09:55.440 the the man in the story does to he's like I'm 00:09:55.440 --> 00:09:57.720 not an animal person and then like the first 00:09:57.720 --> 00:09:59.879 Animal that shows up as a cat and he's like go 00:09:59.879 --> 00:10:02.659 away. I don't like you and then it talks about 00:10:02.659 --> 00:10:06.139 well he likes to sleep in the Sun and he likes 00:10:06.139 --> 00:10:08.679 to watch the rain and eat at a certain time and 00:10:08.679 --> 00:10:10.740 the cat does all those things and it's like oh, 00:10:10.860 --> 00:10:12.840 maybe we do have a little bit more in common 00:10:12.840 --> 00:10:15.659 and So you can use that for a lot of things, 00:10:16.039 --> 00:10:18.519 like whether you're a cat person or not, but 00:10:18.519 --> 00:10:21.980 it can also be used as a, well, you know, I might 00:10:21.980 --> 00:10:26.039 not know this other person, but maybe we have 00:10:26.039 --> 00:10:27.919 something in common. You can kind of use it as 00:10:27.919 --> 00:10:31.460 a lesson where you can be like, you know, getting 00:10:31.460 --> 00:10:34.419 to know people or things, you might find that 00:10:34.419 --> 00:10:36.419 there's some more commonalities there that you 00:10:36.419 --> 00:10:39.840 can connect with and make connections to people. 00:10:40.110 --> 00:10:42.970 as well as animals that way and so having some 00:10:42.970 --> 00:10:44.509 conversations like that would be a great way 00:10:44.509 --> 00:10:50.110 to use this book also yeah so yeah as far as 00:10:50.110 --> 00:10:53.769 a makerspace activity i was going simple with 00:10:53.769 --> 00:10:55.529 this one i just think this is such a great book 00:10:55.529 --> 00:10:58.730 that it doesn't need a a ton of stuff to go with 00:10:58.730 --> 00:11:02.970 it but using some legos having some toy animals 00:11:02.970 --> 00:11:05.470 and having the students build their own farm 00:11:05.470 --> 00:11:09.490 for all of the animals and making their own old 00:11:09.490 --> 00:11:11.730 McDonald's farm using some Legos would be a fun 00:11:11.730 --> 00:11:15.149 way for the students to be able to connect to 00:11:15.149 --> 00:11:19.230 this story. If you wanted to create kind of have 00:11:19.230 --> 00:11:21.330 them do it sequentially based on the animals 00:11:21.330 --> 00:11:23.049 as they're introduced in the book you could have 00:11:23.049 --> 00:11:24.590 you could add that into it and they could do 00:11:24.590 --> 00:11:27.330 some sequencing with it so start with a place 00:11:27.330 --> 00:11:30.590 for the cats and you could have them build some 00:11:30.590 --> 00:11:34.269 plate an area for the cats to build on and then 00:11:34.269 --> 00:11:37.809 an area for the dogs and then an area for the 00:11:37.850 --> 00:11:40.149 the pigs and the cows and goats and all those 00:11:40.149 --> 00:11:44.330 things. So you could have each student build 00:11:44.330 --> 00:11:47.590 a full farm or you could have groups of students 00:11:47.590 --> 00:11:49.409 build a portion of the farm and then kind of 00:11:49.409 --> 00:11:52.009 put them together to make the whole farm. So 00:11:52.009 --> 00:11:54.350 you can do a lot of different team building and 00:11:54.350 --> 00:11:59.610 kind of cooperation. activities with them to 00:11:59.610 --> 00:12:01.909 introduce this, which would be a lot of fun to 00:12:01.909 --> 00:12:04.250 see what they could come up with. I know, like 00:12:04.250 --> 00:12:07.129 if you gave somebody the cat section, they could 00:12:07.129 --> 00:12:09.830 build a bunch of places for the cats to climb 00:12:09.830 --> 00:12:13.029 and hide and all that kind of stuff. And like, 00:12:13.149 --> 00:12:16.090 so if you gave them a specific area and told 00:12:16.090 --> 00:12:18.549 them maybe some of the needs of that animal, 00:12:19.330 --> 00:12:22.809 then they could build specific portions of the 00:12:22.809 --> 00:12:25.879 farm that way. because like a goat is definitely 00:12:25.879 --> 00:12:28.820 going to need a different kind of area than a 00:12:28.820 --> 00:12:33.179 pig and or a dog or a chicken you know and so 00:12:33.179 --> 00:12:37.240 having them having them kind of think about the 00:12:37.240 --> 00:12:40.139 animal and the needs of that animal you could 00:12:40.139 --> 00:12:42.980 actually have them start thinking how they could 00:12:42.980 --> 00:12:46.519 decide design the space for that specific animal 00:12:46.519 --> 00:12:48.720 and then put them all together at the end and 00:12:48.720 --> 00:12:51.179 let the kids kind of look at what everybody created 00:12:51.179 --> 00:12:54.850 be a fun fun little activity It is. It's a really 00:12:54.850 --> 00:12:58.789 fun makerspace idea where kids get to be like 00:12:58.789 --> 00:13:02.450 truly creative and it has just enough direction 00:13:02.450 --> 00:13:06.590 for them to kind of be successful but then be 00:13:06.590 --> 00:13:08.590 really independent and creative with it. Yeah. 00:13:08.830 --> 00:13:13.570 I love it. For our Library of Littles management 00:13:13.570 --> 00:13:16.730 tip today, we're going to talk about First Book 00:13:16.730 --> 00:13:21.090 Marketplace. This is an online resource, kind 00:13:21.090 --> 00:13:23.840 of. Well, it's definitely online, but it's a 00:13:23.840 --> 00:13:28.519 resource that can be used for schools that are 00:13:28.519 --> 00:13:32.759 Kind of title one ish so the name of the website 00:13:32.759 --> 00:13:36.279 that you would go to is its first book marketplace 00:13:36.279 --> 00:13:41.240 FB marketplace org and this is an organization 00:13:41.240 --> 00:13:45.320 that a lot of Publishers will go to when they 00:13:45.320 --> 00:13:47.580 have a surplus of books that they're looking 00:13:47.580 --> 00:13:50.850 to offload they'll give it to First Book Marketplace 00:13:50.850 --> 00:13:54.850 and then people from organizations who qualify 00:13:54.850 --> 00:14:00.429 can get books and other educational resources 00:14:00.429 --> 00:14:03.629 for very, very, very cheap. I've been using them 00:14:03.629 --> 00:14:08.450 for the last four years, I think. So when I qualified, 00:14:09.049 --> 00:14:12.230 I went to their page and went to the page that 00:14:12.230 --> 00:14:15.070 said that... I filled out a little bit of paperwork 00:14:15.070 --> 00:14:18.269 and it was just very simple, easy to do stuff 00:14:18.269 --> 00:14:21.289 where it asked me the name of my school and our 00:14:21.289 --> 00:14:25.009 address and then some general information about 00:14:25.009 --> 00:14:27.470 our demographics. I did have to find like the 00:14:27.470 --> 00:14:29.909 percentage of our students who speak English 00:14:29.909 --> 00:14:33.190 as a second language and the percentage of our 00:14:33.190 --> 00:14:36.429 students who qualify for free and reduced lunch 00:14:36.429 --> 00:14:39.549 and things like that, but I only had to do it 00:14:39.549 --> 00:14:42.990 one time. Four years ago, and then once I qualified 00:14:42.990 --> 00:14:46.250 they were like congratulations here you go, and 00:14:46.250 --> 00:14:51.149 I got free access to shop any of their Everything 00:14:51.149 --> 00:14:55.929 that they have really because it is kind of stuff 00:14:55.929 --> 00:14:59.629 that publishers are looking to offload sometimes 00:15:00.080 --> 00:15:04.080 It is stuff that I wouldn't necessarily want 00:15:04.080 --> 00:15:05.940 to buy. You kind of have to comb through it and 00:15:05.940 --> 00:15:08.299 see what's applicable for your school and what's 00:15:08.299 --> 00:15:10.799 applicable for your students. But sometimes they 00:15:10.799 --> 00:15:14.159 have really phenomenal deals. Like I've gotten 00:15:14.159 --> 00:15:20.259 books like really good like brand new like the 00:15:20.259 --> 00:15:24.029 Walmart. Books that they've been trying to sell 00:15:24.029 --> 00:15:26.549 at Walmart that Walmart wasn't able to sell for 00:15:26.549 --> 00:15:30.350 whatever reason, like the good Disney five -in 00:15:30.350 --> 00:15:35.470 -one storybooks for a quarter each. And I don't 00:15:35.470 --> 00:15:37.809 have them set up as a vendor. I never use library 00:15:37.809 --> 00:15:40.649 money for this one. This is one that I always 00:15:40.649 --> 00:15:44.049 use my personal money for. But I've been able 00:15:44.049 --> 00:15:47.450 to get, a couple of times, I've gotten a whole 00:15:47.450 --> 00:15:51.159 palette of well over 1 ,000 books. that are appropriate 00:15:51.159 --> 00:15:56.679 for pre -k for like $250 and all I had to do 00:15:56.679 --> 00:15:58.740 was pay for shipping and that was it. They sent 00:15:58.740 --> 00:16:01.220 all of them over and it was like a quarter each 00:16:01.220 --> 00:16:04.820 and it was fabulous which is I mean it's 250 00:16:04.820 --> 00:16:07.779 of my personal money is it's it's kind of significant 00:16:07.779 --> 00:16:10.419 but for how much value I got and I was able to 00:16:10.419 --> 00:16:14.230 give every student that year got a total of ten 00:16:14.230 --> 00:16:16.789 books each to take home to me that was worth 00:16:16.789 --> 00:16:19.789 it and then i had enough left over that actually 00:16:19.789 --> 00:16:21.789 i think the next year i was able to give each 00:16:21.789 --> 00:16:24.570 student four books to take home and just keep 00:16:24.570 --> 00:16:27.529 forever because a lot of our students because 00:16:27.529 --> 00:16:30.570 they qualify for pre -k there's many students 00:16:30.570 --> 00:16:33.250 at my school who live in a book desert and just 00:16:33.250 --> 00:16:37.399 will never purchase a book on their own and We 00:16:37.399 --> 00:16:40.460 don't have very many returning students at our 00:16:40.460 --> 00:16:42.379 school because it's all three and four year olds 00:16:42.379 --> 00:16:45.159 and most of them move on to kindergarten the 00:16:45.159 --> 00:16:48.860 next year. But of the few that do return, I have 00:16:48.860 --> 00:16:52.240 seen, like there are kids that, like if they're 00:16:52.240 --> 00:16:55.220 bus riders, I'll see them come back to school 00:16:55.220 --> 00:16:58.059 like on the first day and they'll still be holding 00:16:58.059 --> 00:17:00.100 that book that I gave them from the previous 00:17:00.100 --> 00:17:02.980 year because they have nothing to do on the bus. 00:17:03.500 --> 00:17:06.099 and they need something to do so they'll take 00:17:06.099 --> 00:17:08.140 that book with them. It's very sweet. I love 00:17:08.140 --> 00:17:10.740 it when that happens. That usually happens like 00:17:10.740 --> 00:17:13.299 between five and ten kids like on the first day 00:17:13.299 --> 00:17:15.920 of school will like be coming back with their 00:17:15.920 --> 00:17:19.000 book that they got last year on the last day. 00:17:19.099 --> 00:17:20.920 They're coming back on the first day of school 00:17:20.920 --> 00:17:23.259 with it and they're like, I don't know, makes 00:17:23.259 --> 00:17:26.400 me feel great to see when that happens. but First 00:17:26.400 --> 00:17:29.940 Book also has some free digital resources that 00:17:29.940 --> 00:17:33.339 I personally haven't utilized because I've only 00:17:33.339 --> 00:17:36.559 been in pre -k and our students don't really 00:17:36.559 --> 00:17:40.759 use ebooks or anything just yet. Not a whole 00:17:40.759 --> 00:17:46.059 lot anyway. I don't, I do give parents some resources 00:17:46.059 --> 00:17:49.839 for ebooks if they're going to do it with their 00:17:49.839 --> 00:17:53.009 child, but I don't encourage it. of it because 00:17:53.009 --> 00:17:58.670 our kids get so so bombarded with screens everywhere 00:17:58.670 --> 00:18:02.109 I do try and encourage our parents to read them 00:18:02.109 --> 00:18:05.509 physical books at three and four years old but 00:18:05.509 --> 00:18:08.829 their first book does have some really great 00:18:08.829 --> 00:18:10.890 online resources that might be better suited 00:18:10.890 --> 00:18:13.230 for like older children probably is okay for 00:18:13.230 --> 00:18:15.029 pre -k2 if I'm being honest I haven't really 00:18:15.029 --> 00:18:19.369 looked through it a ton then they also will occasionally 00:18:19.369 --> 00:18:23.289 offer grants that are funded through Pizza Hut 00:18:23.289 --> 00:18:26.390 and Build -A -Bear. Those are the two really 00:18:26.390 --> 00:18:29.529 big donors that I see go through them a whole 00:18:29.529 --> 00:18:33.490 lot. So I have my email alerts set up so that 00:18:33.490 --> 00:18:36.849 they just every time I see that they like they'll 00:18:36.849 --> 00:18:38.650 email me every time they've got like a grant 00:18:38.650 --> 00:18:41.259 opportunity that they're Like looking to find 00:18:41.259 --> 00:18:43.779 something like they'll say we're looking to find 00:18:43.779 --> 00:18:45.940 you know this number of social and emotional 00:18:45.940 --> 00:18:50.259 books and you know there's we have you. You can 00:18:50.259 --> 00:18:52.380 have a hundred dollars to spend on just social 00:18:52.380 --> 00:18:54.480 emotional books and it's just for free right 00:18:54.480 --> 00:18:59.019 there and because it's cheaper to cuz it's all 00:18:59.019 --> 00:19:02.720 books that have been donated by publishers it's 00:19:02.720 --> 00:19:05.220 usually the most expensive I've seen. books get 00:19:05.220 --> 00:19:07.640 there is like three or four dollars so if you're 00:19:07.640 --> 00:19:10.099 paying only three or four dollars per book and 00:19:10.099 --> 00:19:12.859 you get to spend a hundred dollars like that 00:19:12.859 --> 00:19:15.759 kind of goes you can get a decent amount of books 00:19:15.759 --> 00:19:19.440 for that so yeah that's our tip this week is 00:19:19.440 --> 00:19:22.759 using looking at first book marketplace for free 00:19:22.759 --> 00:19:26.400 and reduced well i guess very reduced cost books 00:19:26.400 --> 00:19:30.380 that that's amazing i have not used this resource 00:19:30.380 --> 00:19:33.069 but i'm definitely going to be filling out the 00:19:33.069 --> 00:19:35.690 paperwork to see if I can qualify because to 00:19:35.690 --> 00:19:38.069 be able to get books that kids can keep in their 00:19:38.069 --> 00:19:41.349 hands and they get to keep for themselves is 00:19:41.349 --> 00:19:44.109 for such low prices is amazing. And like you 00:19:44.109 --> 00:19:47.329 said, I just love the idea of those kids that 00:19:47.329 --> 00:19:50.210 otherwise wouldn't have any books get to have 00:19:50.210 --> 00:19:53.710 some that are theirs to keep is just amazing. 00:19:53.950 --> 00:19:56.869 I love that. Such a cool resource. So I'm definitely 00:19:56.869 --> 00:19:59.049 gonna have to look into this more. Yeah, and 00:19:59.049 --> 00:20:02.910 I've offered it since I qualify for our whole 00:20:02.910 --> 00:20:06.029 school. I've offered it to to like, because I 00:20:06.029 --> 00:20:08.509 know there's quite a few teachers who prefer 00:20:08.509 --> 00:20:11.670 to give their students like for an end of year 00:20:11.670 --> 00:20:14.609 gift or a Christmas gift. They like to give their 00:20:14.609 --> 00:20:18.470 kids like a specific book to take home. So I've 00:20:18.470 --> 00:20:20.829 offered it to my teachers as well. And I've had 00:20:20.829 --> 00:20:24.450 a couple of teachers like say that they'll that 00:20:24.450 --> 00:20:26.920 they'd like to go through there because Like 00:20:26.920 --> 00:20:29.319 Scholastic used to offer like one dollar books 00:20:29.319 --> 00:20:30.960 or like real cheap books for teachers, but they 00:20:30.960 --> 00:20:34.140 don't really do it that cheap anymore. So this 00:20:34.140 --> 00:20:38.319 is kind of a good supplement for that. For those 00:20:38.319 --> 00:20:41.539 teachers who are looking for gifting their students 00:20:41.539 --> 00:20:44.619 is that's I mean, gifting an entire school of 00:20:44.619 --> 00:20:47.660 students with books is a significant undertaking, 00:20:47.720 --> 00:20:51.039 but just doing like a classroom for a teacher 00:20:51.039 --> 00:20:54.559 like that's. a lot more reasonable so and when 00:20:54.559 --> 00:20:57.740 I do give away books like that too I do definitely 00:20:57.740 --> 00:21:01.059 supplement with book fair money that's usually 00:21:01.059 --> 00:21:04.359 where my the book fair profits go for my school 00:21:04.359 --> 00:21:07.440 just because we get we do get a significant amount 00:21:07.440 --> 00:21:10.839 of funding or we have in the past um for my library 00:21:10.839 --> 00:21:14.460 and I haven't really needed the extra money for 00:21:14.460 --> 00:21:17.119 building up the library so I always gave it right 00:21:17.119 --> 00:21:21.420 back to the kids and like through gifting them 00:21:21.420 --> 00:21:24.940 with books. So that kind of took the sting out 00:21:24.940 --> 00:21:28.440 of it a little bit too with not funding for other 00:21:28.440 --> 00:21:33.980 things. So yeah, very cool. All right. Well, 00:21:33.980 --> 00:21:36.319 the next book that we're going to talk about 00:21:36.319 --> 00:21:40.920 today is called Look. It is published by Simon 00:21:40.920 --> 00:21:43.500 and Schuster Books for Young Readers in 2024. 00:21:44.259 --> 00:21:48.940 The author is Gabby Snyder and the illustrator 00:21:48.940 --> 00:21:54.869 is Samantha Cotterill. This book has won a Junior 00:21:54.869 --> 00:21:58.650 Library Guild Selection, Outstanding Science 00:21:58.650 --> 00:22:03.329 Trade Books for 2025, Kentucky Bluegrass Award 00:22:03.329 --> 00:22:07.430 for 2025 for Preschool, Pennsylvania Best of 00:22:07.430 --> 00:22:11.849 2024 for grades K through 12, and the Texas 2x2 00:22:11.849 --> 00:22:20.799 for 2025. And the author as a child, Gabie absolutely 00:22:20.799 --> 00:22:23.980 loved reading and writing. However, she didn't 00:22:23.980 --> 00:22:27.279 think it was a practical career choice and first 00:22:27.279 --> 00:22:30.359 opted to study psychology at the University of 00:22:30.359 --> 00:22:33.279 Washington. After dabbling in writing on the 00:22:33.279 --> 00:22:36.400 side for a few years, she obtained her master's 00:22:36.400 --> 00:22:39.000 in creative writing at the University of Texas. 00:22:39.619 --> 00:22:43.380 She then had a series of jobs that helped others 00:22:43.380 --> 00:22:46.519 with writing such as grant writing and instructional 00:22:46.519 --> 00:22:49.720 design. It wasn't until she took a break from 00:22:49.720 --> 00:22:53.039 working when her kids were little, three and 00:22:53.039 --> 00:22:56.319 five years old, that she fell in love with picture 00:22:56.319 --> 00:23:00.140 books and began writing for herself. She currently 00:23:00.140 --> 00:23:05.259 lives in Oregon with her family. And some of 00:23:05.259 --> 00:23:07.900 the other books that she's written are Two Dogs 00:23:07.900 --> 00:23:11.799 on a Trike, illustrated by Robin Rosenthal, Listen, 00:23:11.930 --> 00:23:17.009 illustrated by Stephanie Gregan. Count on us 00:23:17.009 --> 00:23:20.549 climate activists from one to a billion illustrated 00:23:20.549 --> 00:23:24.670 by Sarah Walsh and today illustrated by Stephanie 00:23:24.670 --> 00:23:30.839 Gregan. and the illustrator Samantha Cotterill 00:23:30.839 --> 00:23:34.160 is an award -winning author and illustrator of 00:23:34.160 --> 00:23:36.700 children's books. She frequently collaborates 00:23:36.700 --> 00:23:39.980 with authors and wrote and illustrated a series 00:23:39.980 --> 00:23:42.680 of books designed to teach specific skills to 00:23:42.680 --> 00:23:47.339 children on the autism spectrum. And some of 00:23:47.339 --> 00:23:50.740 her other books are Look written by Gabi Snyder, 00:23:50.960 --> 00:23:54.599 A Grand Day written by Jean Reedy, Thankful written 00:23:54.599 --> 00:23:58.670 by Elaine Vickers, The Secret Rhino Society, 00:23:58.910 --> 00:24:02.089 written by Jonathan E. Jacobs Just Add Glitter, 00:24:02.289 --> 00:24:06.970 written by Angela D. Tirlesi Once Upon a Slime, 00:24:07.089 --> 00:24:10.089 written by Andy Maxwell Charlotte and the Rock, 00:24:10.269 --> 00:24:13.970 written by Stephen W. Martin Jinx and the Doom 00:24:13.970 --> 00:24:19.240 Fight Crime, written by Lisa Manchev and the 00:24:19.240 --> 00:24:21.640 books that she has written and illustrated herself 00:24:21.640 --> 00:24:26.940 are No More Bows and the Little Senses book series. 00:24:27.380 --> 00:24:29.980 The books in that series are The Beach is Loud, 00:24:30.380 --> 00:24:34.319 Nope, Never, Not for Me, Can I Play Too, and 00:24:34.319 --> 00:24:37.400 It Was Supposed to Be Sunny. And with those four 00:24:37.400 --> 00:24:39.660 books, it looks like, I haven't read any of them 00:24:39.660 --> 00:24:41.619 personally, but it looks like they're all meant 00:24:41.619 --> 00:24:44.660 to be social stories, kind of written specifically 00:24:44.660 --> 00:24:48.359 for kids that are probably on the autism spectrum 00:24:48.359 --> 00:24:52.019 that need a little bit more guidance with socialization 00:24:52.019 --> 00:24:56.299 and things like that. So the book summary for 00:24:56.299 --> 00:24:59.000 this book is, in this beautifully illustrated 00:24:59.000 --> 00:25:01.779 picture book, the narrator speaks directly to 00:25:01.779 --> 00:25:04.019 the reader and encourages the reader to look 00:25:04.019 --> 00:25:06.759 closely at the world around them and find all 00:25:06.759 --> 00:25:11.799 the patterns and beauty around. This book I thought 00:25:11.799 --> 00:25:15.450 was Really the pictures are what make the book 00:25:15.450 --> 00:25:20.130 the pictures are so bright and so vivid and I'm 00:25:20.130 --> 00:25:25.130 not really sure how she made them I think that 00:25:25.130 --> 00:25:29.890 it must have been like a mix of Hand drawing 00:25:29.890 --> 00:25:34.990 and collage. I'm not sure but they're just very 00:25:34.990 --> 00:25:39.599 bold very bright incredibly vivid and just Rather 00:25:39.599 --> 00:25:42.559 lovely. I don't know. So in this book there's 00:25:42.559 --> 00:25:47.839 the narrator speaking to the reader is just like 00:25:47.839 --> 00:25:51.859 Okay, the world can be kind of crazy and you 00:25:51.859 --> 00:25:54.039 might feel overwhelmed sometimes But when you 00:25:54.039 --> 00:25:57.559 feel overwhelmed like really just stop take a 00:25:57.559 --> 00:26:01.200 moment take a breath and look around you You 00:26:01.200 --> 00:26:04.220 can find patterns that can be comforting you 00:26:04.220 --> 00:26:08.039 can find beauty everywhere like and it kind of 00:26:08.039 --> 00:26:10.359 points out that there's specific things that 00:26:10.359 --> 00:26:12.440 kind of keep repeating like maybe a polka dot 00:26:12.440 --> 00:26:17.980 pattern or it could be like a shadow that like 00:26:17.980 --> 00:26:20.460 you know of a picket fence or something that 00:26:20.460 --> 00:26:23.680 were there's like a repeating a b a b kind of 00:26:23.680 --> 00:26:27.539 a pattern and it's really just direct it's not 00:26:27.539 --> 00:26:33.299 really a story per se but it's directly teaching 00:26:33.299 --> 00:26:38.359 mindfulness And patterning but like I said, I 00:26:38.359 --> 00:26:41.980 really feel like the it's the The pictures that 00:26:41.980 --> 00:26:45.240 make it there's just certain pages where like 00:26:45.240 --> 00:26:48.640 I don't even know how she did it like I think 00:26:48.640 --> 00:26:51.000 she must have made a collage and like taken a 00:26:51.000 --> 00:26:54.980 picture of it I'm not sure but there's certain 00:26:54.980 --> 00:26:56.880 pictures where like you can see like a close 00:26:56.880 --> 00:27:00.160 -up of a child on a page and like some things 00:27:00.160 --> 00:27:03.079 in the foreground like some flowers in the foreground 00:27:03.079 --> 00:27:05.920 and then Behind it like the background is kind 00:27:05.920 --> 00:27:07.720 of blurry and like you can kind of see other 00:27:07.720 --> 00:27:09.759 things too But it's like kind of encouraging 00:27:09.759 --> 00:27:12.220 you to focus on the things that are closer up, 00:27:12.319 --> 00:27:16.519 you know, I don't know it was just Really pretty 00:27:16.519 --> 00:27:19.059 I loved the pictures in this book a whole lot 00:27:19.059 --> 00:27:22.740 if you couldn't tell I agree like it was a really 00:27:22.740 --> 00:27:26.160 cool book that the colors that are used are just 00:27:26.160 --> 00:27:31.220 so eye -catching and I love the pictures in this 00:27:31.220 --> 00:27:34.900 book. The colors were so vibrant and eye -catching. 00:27:35.240 --> 00:27:38.640 And like you said, I was really engaged with 00:27:38.640 --> 00:27:41.779 the pictures because there was a lot of layering. 00:27:42.180 --> 00:27:44.579 So like there were things that were in the foreground 00:27:44.579 --> 00:27:46.720 and things in the background that kind of just 00:27:46.720 --> 00:27:49.180 made the pictures just, they felt like they were 00:27:49.180 --> 00:27:52.759 popping off the page. It was amazing. I loved 00:27:52.759 --> 00:27:57.000 it. It was so cool. And like, The story itself 00:27:57.000 --> 00:28:00.460 is relatively simple, but those pictures just 00:28:00.460 --> 00:28:04.440 keep you engaged in the story. And I love that 00:28:04.440 --> 00:28:06.720 it does teach, like you said, that mindfulness 00:28:06.720 --> 00:28:10.140 of being able to just be like, let's take a second, 00:28:10.460 --> 00:28:16.720 find something to kind of slow down and be able 00:28:16.720 --> 00:28:21.450 to kind of focus on what is important instead 00:28:21.450 --> 00:28:24.130 of being just overwhelmed with all of the input 00:28:24.130 --> 00:28:26.630 that's around us kind of and that's such an important 00:28:26.630 --> 00:28:29.869 thing for a lot of students to learn is that 00:28:29.869 --> 00:28:31.809 even though there's a lot of things happening 00:28:31.809 --> 00:28:35.710 around you learning how to be able to focus on 00:28:35.710 --> 00:28:38.569 what you need so that you're not distracted and 00:28:38.569 --> 00:28:41.170 not overwhelmed and like that's hard for lots 00:28:41.170 --> 00:28:43.109 of people not just students that's hard for a 00:28:43.109 --> 00:28:45.829 lot of people I think that sensory input sometimes 00:28:45.829 --> 00:28:49.200 just could be So overwhelming. So this was just 00:28:49.200 --> 00:28:52.079 like, it was just a beautiful story. And like, 00:28:52.180 --> 00:28:55.519 it was like, the story itself is relatively simple, 00:28:55.519 --> 00:28:59.019 but the impact that it can have on students is 00:28:59.019 --> 00:29:00.980 pretty amazing. And those pictures, like you 00:29:00.980 --> 00:29:04.440 said, just so bright and vibrant and beautiful. 00:29:05.680 --> 00:29:08.720 I know this one, I was like, I kind of like, 00:29:08.940 --> 00:29:12.700 I don't know how, like if librarians can nominate 00:29:12.700 --> 00:29:14.359 something for a Caldecott, but I kind of want 00:29:14.359 --> 00:29:21.190 to. Yeah. I loved it a lot. I think if I was, 00:29:21.569 --> 00:29:23.329 I think I would probably give this one a five 00:29:23.329 --> 00:29:27.190 out of five. I think I would. Yeah. I was going 00:29:27.190 --> 00:29:29.470 to say four out of five, but no, I can't think 00:29:29.470 --> 00:29:31.509 of why I would knock it down to a four out of 00:29:31.509 --> 00:29:34.630 five. It doesn't, it doesn't have a direct story, 00:29:34.630 --> 00:29:37.569 which I think is why I was kind of leaning toward 00:29:37.569 --> 00:29:39.529 four out of five at first. But I think it does 00:29:39.529 --> 00:29:42.750 such a good job with that mindfulness piece and 00:29:42.750 --> 00:29:46.509 the pictures are so engaging. Yeah, five out 00:29:46.509 --> 00:29:49.650 of five. Yeah, I agree. It doesn't have like 00:29:49.650 --> 00:29:54.750 a real full story, but it definitely flows through 00:29:54.750 --> 00:29:57.069 the book. So like, even though there's not the 00:29:57.069 --> 00:30:00.190 story, you're progressing through the book by 00:30:00.190 --> 00:30:02.410 looking for those patterns and everything. So 00:30:02.410 --> 00:30:05.589 I think it's still, I think that's what kind 00:30:05.589 --> 00:30:08.269 of, even though there's not the story, the progression 00:30:08.269 --> 00:30:11.950 feels natural enough to make it through the book 00:30:11.950 --> 00:30:16.470 that it's still a good story. Mm -hmm It is it's 00:30:16.470 --> 00:30:20.710 a really good book and it kind of like my personal 00:30:20.710 --> 00:30:23.710 kids struggle with anxiety a lot and one of the 00:30:23.710 --> 00:30:27.490 strategies they use For grounding is that you 00:30:27.490 --> 00:30:30.470 know Look around you and name five things that 00:30:30.470 --> 00:30:32.609 you can see and four things that you can hear 00:30:32.609 --> 00:30:37.210 and all that business so that was kind of A really 00:30:37.210 --> 00:30:41.349 great way to kind of tie that in with that Those 00:30:41.349 --> 00:30:44.880 grounding strategies as well. So yeah i just 00:30:44.880 --> 00:30:47.680 enjoyed it a lot and on the very very last page 00:30:47.680 --> 00:30:51.119 of this book it actually has i didn't write anything 00:30:51.119 --> 00:30:53.200 specific for the makerspace activity of this 00:30:53.200 --> 00:30:56.759 book because on the very last page it has suggestions 00:30:56.759 --> 00:31:01.240 on how to integrate it into your curriculum and 00:31:01.240 --> 00:31:03.700 what activities that you can do afterward so 00:31:03.700 --> 00:31:06.220 and they're Just so many different directions 00:31:06.220 --> 00:31:08.599 you could take it in because it does talk about 00:31:08.599 --> 00:31:11.839 a whole lot of different kinds of patterns So 00:31:11.839 --> 00:31:15.319 it would really depend on I think I mean this 00:31:15.319 --> 00:31:18.920 book did win us. It was the science trade book 00:31:18.920 --> 00:31:22.920 award right like it just I mean it won that for 00:31:22.920 --> 00:31:26.039 a reason like it lends itself to so many different 00:31:26.039 --> 00:31:30.160 kinds of like Concepts like that with the patterning 00:31:30.160 --> 00:31:31.920 and everything that you see everywhere in there 00:31:31.920 --> 00:31:36.819 that it's really You could do pretty much any 00:31:36.819 --> 00:31:39.019 kind of patterning. There's a lot of different 00:31:39.019 --> 00:31:42.500 art activities that could go with it. Like, it 00:31:42.500 --> 00:31:47.500 could be very much tailored to anything specific 00:31:47.500 --> 00:31:50.700 in your curriculum at any given time, I think. 00:31:51.099 --> 00:31:53.619 Like, that any time of the year. Like, you could 00:31:53.619 --> 00:31:57.079 really do it just about any time and just fit 00:31:57.079 --> 00:32:00.180 it in perfectly to whatever your curriculum is 00:32:00.180 --> 00:32:03.099 right then, as far as like math and science. 00:32:03.289 --> 00:32:07.930 Like, it's kind of a perfect steam book. Yeah. 00:32:08.869 --> 00:32:10.529 I agree. When I was reading it, I was thinking 00:32:10.529 --> 00:32:12.069 of all the different ways you could use like 00:32:12.069 --> 00:32:14.930 in the fall, you could do it like patterning 00:32:14.930 --> 00:32:17.809 with like leaves in the winter, you could do 00:32:17.809 --> 00:32:20.750 patterning with like the designs of snowflakes 00:32:20.750 --> 00:32:24.269 in the spring, like flowers blooming, like there's 00:32:24.269 --> 00:32:26.289 so many different ways that you can incorporate 00:32:26.289 --> 00:32:28.710 it with. different things that are happening 00:32:28.710 --> 00:32:32.549 and in nature and just, yeah, there's so many 00:32:32.549 --> 00:32:35.109 cool ways that you could use this book. It's, 00:32:35.109 --> 00:32:36.970 it's pretty awesome. And I love that the book 00:32:36.970 --> 00:32:40.190 gives you a bunch of ideas of how you can incorporate 00:32:40.190 --> 00:32:43.529 it and use it with your curriculum, which is 00:32:43.529 --> 00:32:45.769 really awesome. Yeah. And because it has so many 00:32:45.769 --> 00:32:47.289 different kinds of patterns, it could go anywhere 00:32:47.289 --> 00:32:49.910 from pre -K with just like a simple AB pattern 00:32:49.910 --> 00:32:53.990 to like a more complex, like upper elementary, 00:32:54.069 --> 00:32:56.740 like it had Oh, I don't remember the I'm not 00:32:56.740 --> 00:32:59.420 looking at the book right now, but it like it 00:32:59.420 --> 00:33:01.799 had like different the names of different kinds 00:33:01.799 --> 00:33:04.200 of complex patterns in the world around them 00:33:04.200 --> 00:33:06.079 that words like you could do it with like any 00:33:06.079 --> 00:33:09.440 age level and really just whatever works for 00:33:09.440 --> 00:33:12.339 you. Well, it was kind of great. It's just a 00:33:12.339 --> 00:33:14.660 really great book all around and can be used 00:33:14.660 --> 00:33:19.559 for a lot of things. It's awesome. Yeah. All 00:33:19.559 --> 00:33:22.079 right, y 'all will. Thank you for joining us 00:33:22.079 --> 00:33:24.720 today on this episode of Librarians of Littles. 00:33:25.000 --> 00:33:27.660 We hope you found some fresh ideas for inspiring 00:33:27.660 --> 00:33:29.740 young readers and please be sure to subscribe 00:33:29.740 --> 00:33:33.000 and connect with us on social media. Happy reading! 00:33:34.559 --> 00:33:37.359 Thank you for listening to this episode of Librarians 00:33:37.359 --> 00:33:40.200 of Littles. We hope that you've enjoyed it. Check 00:33:40.200 --> 00:33:44.589 back each Wednesday for a new episode. Librarians 00:33:44.589 --> 00:33:47.369 of Littles is a podcast produced and hosted by 00:33:47.369 --> 00:33:51.029 Patrick Adams and Caroline Ligier. 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