WEBVTT 00:00:20.489 --> 00:00:24.929 Hello, I'm Patrick Adams. And I'm Caroline Legere. 00:00:25.260 --> 00:00:28.160 And this is Librarians of Littles, a podcast 00:00:28.160 --> 00:00:31.719 where we share books, give makerspace ideas, 00:00:32.039 --> 00:00:35.299 and give tips and tricks for working with our 00:00:35.299 --> 00:00:38.840 youngest learners in the library setting. Today, 00:00:39.219 --> 00:00:43.219 we have two winter holiday books to share as 00:00:43.219 --> 00:00:46.700 it's getting closer to that time of year. The 00:00:46.700 --> 00:00:51.539 first of which is called Happy Holidays. It is 00:00:51.539 --> 00:00:55.439 published by Little Simon, an imprint of Simon 00:00:55.439 --> 00:00:57.799 & Schuster's children's publishing division in 00:00:57.799 --> 00:01:03.200 2022. The author is Cindy Jin, and the illustrator 00:01:03.200 --> 00:01:09.620 is Rob Sayegh Jr. This book is not on any lists 00:01:09.620 --> 00:01:13.719 and has not received any awards, but our author 00:01:13.719 --> 00:01:17.299 Cindy Jin is very elusive. There's not a lot 00:01:17.299 --> 00:01:20.129 about her online other than She lives in New 00:01:20.129 --> 00:01:22.870 York and she writes and edits children's books 00:01:22.870 --> 00:01:25.909 and she has actually written quite a few books. 00:01:26.129 --> 00:01:30.189 Some of them include Supermom, illustrated by 00:01:30.189 --> 00:01:34.450 Jenin Mohamed. How Do You Say Goodnight, illustrated 00:01:34.450 --> 00:01:40.230 by Shirley Benitez. Into the Sandcastle, a Lift 00:01:40.230 --> 00:01:43.790 the Flat book, illustrated by Alison Black. Being 00:01:43.790 --> 00:01:48.209 Brave, illustrated by Ashley Dugan. Lake Life 00:01:48.209 --> 00:01:54.829 with You. illustrated by Andres Lendazabal. The 00:01:54.829 --> 00:01:57.609 Birthday Buddy, illustrated by Letitia Moreno. 00:01:58.909 --> 00:02:03.250 The Wheels on the Costume, illustrated by Lauren 00:02:03.250 --> 00:02:08.009 Lowen. VIP, Very Important Preschooler, illustrated 00:02:08.009 --> 00:02:11.629 by Ella Bailey. 100 Days of Kindness, illustrated 00:02:11.629 --> 00:02:15.219 by Grace Habib. and many more. And before we 00:02:15.219 --> 00:02:17.900 go on, I need to tell you, I need to find this 00:02:17.900 --> 00:02:21.159 book because I want it. She has a book called 00:02:21.159 --> 00:02:27.099 The Wheels on the Costume. And it is a book about 00:02:27.099 --> 00:02:32.939 kids that are in wheelchairs and that kind of 00:02:32.939 --> 00:02:37.639 like, and so how they their costumes can be made 00:02:37.639 --> 00:02:40.569 and used around the wheelchairs and it is all 00:02:40.569 --> 00:02:43.469 rhymes and goes to the Wheels on the Bus song. 00:02:44.229 --> 00:02:49.289 That's cool. I love the inclusion that it it 00:02:49.289 --> 00:02:51.969 pushes for and so I really, really need to get 00:02:51.969 --> 00:02:54.729 a copy of it and add it to my library because 00:02:54.729 --> 00:02:57.210 I think that's amazing. So that's very cool. 00:02:58.050 --> 00:03:07.000 Yeah. Wow. Cool. And the Illustrator. Rob lives 00:03:07.000 --> 00:03:10.080 in San Francisco. He is a former toy designer 00:03:10.080 --> 00:03:13.460 who later became an artist and illustrator. He 00:03:13.460 --> 00:03:16.919 draws inspiration for stories and arts by collecting 00:03:16.919 --> 00:03:20.580 vintage toys and exploring San Francisco. He 00:03:20.580 --> 00:03:23.439 frequently does school visits both in person 00:03:23.439 --> 00:03:26.939 and virtual. Visits are about 45 minutes each 00:03:26.939 --> 00:03:28.840 and there is a form on his website for those 00:03:28.840 --> 00:03:30.759 interested in setting up a school visit with 00:03:30.759 --> 00:03:34.930 him. And some of his other books include Arlo 00:03:34.930 --> 00:03:39.469 Draws an Octopus by Lori Mortenson, I'm Not Scared 00:03:39.469 --> 00:03:43.710 You're Scared by Seth Meyers, Cue Pig by Claire 00:03:43.710 --> 00:03:48.330 Tattersfield, and One Summer Night by Tammy Solzano. 00:03:50.370 --> 00:03:55.250 And so for this book it is a very cute book that 00:03:55.250 --> 00:03:59.430 is in rhyme and just points out that many families 00:03:59.430 --> 00:04:02.009 celebrate different holidays during the winter 00:04:02.009 --> 00:04:04.889 months, but it all kind of revolves around being 00:04:04.889 --> 00:04:08.629 with family and spending time together and making 00:04:08.629 --> 00:04:12.210 memories. It's a very cute little book. It's 00:04:12.210 --> 00:04:16.290 not super long, but I really love that it mentions 00:04:16.290 --> 00:04:22.930 more than just like the one main winter. Holiday, 00:04:23.209 --> 00:04:25.269 it includes Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and 00:04:25.269 --> 00:04:30.970 even Christmaca, which is awesome because I have 00:04:30.970 --> 00:04:34.790 a very diverse... campus of students and not 00:04:34.790 --> 00:04:36.870 every one of my students quite a few actually 00:04:36.870 --> 00:04:39.790 do not actually celebrate Christmas and so to 00:04:39.790 --> 00:04:41.970 be inclusive and be like yes Christmas is a thing 00:04:41.970 --> 00:04:45.050 and not to discredit it but to also include some 00:04:45.050 --> 00:04:47.709 of those other holidays that other students celebrate 00:04:47.709 --> 00:04:50.910 is just really nice and it's a it's a really 00:04:50.910 --> 00:04:54.410 cute story and I love that with each mention 00:04:54.410 --> 00:04:56.829 of each holiday there's like a little Christmas 00:04:56.829 --> 00:05:00.949 card that's made to celebrate each of those holidays 00:05:01.370 --> 00:05:05.889 and the illustrations are just kind of they're 00:05:05.889 --> 00:05:10.009 very bright and colorful and cute and like there's 00:05:10.009 --> 00:05:13.649 again I love books that have inclusion so there's 00:05:13.649 --> 00:05:15.889 a there's a child that's in a wheelchair and 00:05:15.889 --> 00:05:19.449 there's like families with very diverse like 00:05:19.449 --> 00:05:23.629 skin tone colors and it's you know like it just 00:05:23.629 --> 00:05:25.930 shows all the different kinds of families and 00:05:25.930 --> 00:05:28.870 like they chose grandparents with their grandchildren 00:05:28.870 --> 00:05:32.360 and all the things it's just a really sweet story 00:05:32.360 --> 00:05:36.180 that I really enjoy. I like to use this with 00:05:36.180 --> 00:05:40.139 my pre -K students because a lot of them, if 00:05:40.139 --> 00:05:41.660 they celebrate Christmas, they don't realize 00:05:41.660 --> 00:05:46.139 other things are going on other than Christmas. 00:05:46.600 --> 00:05:49.920 That's true. Let's be real. We're in a very Christian 00:05:49.920 --> 00:05:53.259 society where that is the focus. But there, I 00:05:53.259 --> 00:05:55.759 have quite a few students that they celebrate 00:05:55.759 --> 00:05:59.259 something else. And so to bring that in and to 00:05:59.259 --> 00:06:01.420 expose those children that have only celebrated 00:06:01.420 --> 00:06:05.139 Christmas to the understanding that, hey, there's 00:06:05.139 --> 00:06:08.800 other things going on too that are about spending 00:06:08.800 --> 00:06:12.759 time with family and enjoying the season together. 00:06:13.220 --> 00:06:16.540 And so it's just a really nice book to be able 00:06:16.540 --> 00:06:19.220 to share with those students and I enjoy it a 00:06:19.220 --> 00:06:22.850 lot. I love it. This was the first time that 00:06:22.850 --> 00:06:25.449 I had the privilege of reading this one, and 00:06:25.449 --> 00:06:28.670 I do love how inclusive it is. It was really 00:06:28.670 --> 00:06:31.290 good. It was nice and short and to the point, 00:06:31.589 --> 00:06:36.170 but it just really made sure to really include 00:06:36.170 --> 00:06:41.209 everyone, which was fabulous. Yeah, because it's 00:06:41.209 --> 00:06:44.269 hard to make sure that everybody is included, 00:06:44.329 --> 00:06:46.670 but this book does an excellent job of doing 00:06:46.670 --> 00:06:52.730 that. When I was in the classroom, I always like 00:06:52.730 --> 00:06:55.990 doing the winter holidays in general always made 00:06:55.990 --> 00:06:59.250 me a little bit nervous. That was a big part 00:06:59.250 --> 00:07:01.389 of our curriculum for a long time. We had like 00:07:01.389 --> 00:07:03.370 three solid weeks where it was just like winter 00:07:03.370 --> 00:07:08.730 holidays. And that was, I always at the beginning 00:07:08.730 --> 00:07:12.470 of that unit, On the very first day, I always 00:07:12.470 --> 00:07:15.269 sent home a letter explaining to families that 00:07:15.269 --> 00:07:17.990 we would be learning about different holidays 00:07:17.990 --> 00:07:23.050 and I asked families to write back and let me 00:07:23.050 --> 00:07:26.790 know if there's any holidays that they celebrate 00:07:26.790 --> 00:07:29.230 that they wanted us to cover in school so that 00:07:29.230 --> 00:07:31.949 we would make sure that we would include everybody 00:07:31.949 --> 00:07:35.250 within our classroom and just make sure that 00:07:35.250 --> 00:07:38.430 nobody was left out if they wanted to learn about. 00:07:38.540 --> 00:07:41.579 themselves or see themselves in the curriculum 00:07:41.579 --> 00:07:46.319 there. And I think in the library, in the classroom, 00:07:46.819 --> 00:07:48.980 it's, you know, it's kind of reasonable to send 00:07:48.980 --> 00:07:52.680 that one letter home for 20 kids and to make 00:07:52.680 --> 00:07:55.500 sure all 20 kids are included. And like, you 00:07:55.500 --> 00:07:57.579 know, if parent, then parents have the choice, 00:07:57.579 --> 00:08:00.800 if they want us to learn about their, you know, 00:08:00.920 --> 00:08:02.860 celebrations, we can celebrate with them. And 00:08:02.860 --> 00:08:06.699 if they, you know, don't, that's okay too. You 00:08:06.699 --> 00:08:09.980 do you, that's cool. In the library, though, 00:08:10.379 --> 00:08:14.519 serving so many kids, it's really, really hard 00:08:14.519 --> 00:08:17.899 to make sure that everybody is included, especially 00:08:17.899 --> 00:08:21.379 with something like this, where you don't really 00:08:21.379 --> 00:08:24.000 know what everybody celebrates. And the assumption, 00:08:24.019 --> 00:08:26.199 I think, is naturally to assume that everybody 00:08:26.199 --> 00:08:28.720 celebrates Christmas, just because the way our 00:08:28.720 --> 00:08:33.620 society is. But that's obviously not the case. 00:08:34.080 --> 00:08:37.220 We do have a lot of different religions and celebrations 00:08:37.220 --> 00:08:39.600 going on and some people abstain altogether and 00:08:39.600 --> 00:08:43.179 that's okay too. So I just love that this one 00:08:43.179 --> 00:08:47.379 just makes sure that everybody is included to 00:08:47.379 --> 00:08:51.399 the best of our ability and that we do recognize 00:08:51.399 --> 00:08:53.919 that there are, you know, we have differences 00:08:53.919 --> 00:08:57.320 and that's cool. We're still all celebrating. 00:08:57.500 --> 00:09:00.000 It's still a happy time of year, no matter what. 00:09:00.179 --> 00:09:04.899 So it's great. I love it. And that's the thing, 00:09:05.120 --> 00:09:09.919 like my school, for better or worse, they have 00:09:09.919 --> 00:09:12.460 every year that like they put up a Christmas 00:09:12.460 --> 00:09:14.740 tree in the front office and that kind of thing. 00:09:14.779 --> 00:09:18.059 And I keep the library pretty neutral and I've 00:09:18.059 --> 00:09:20.340 had teachers ask like, well, why don't you put, 00:09:20.960 --> 00:09:23.840 and I have to explain like, because first off 00:09:23.840 --> 00:09:27.600 we have kids coming in every morning. We have 00:09:27.600 --> 00:09:30.659 like groups of kids that wear head jeans and 00:09:30.659 --> 00:09:33.450 like clearly they're not. celebrating Christmas, 00:09:34.149 --> 00:09:36.009 the library should be a very welcoming place. 00:09:36.090 --> 00:09:39.009 And so I want everyone to feel welcome and not 00:09:39.009 --> 00:09:41.830 to intentionally exclude anyone. So that's the 00:09:41.830 --> 00:09:44.850 first thing. But then, like, I will read some 00:09:44.850 --> 00:09:47.789 like, I will read this book this year with the 00:09:47.789 --> 00:09:51.470 kids. Because just pretending it's not happening 00:09:51.470 --> 00:09:55.169 doesn't make sense either. No. So like, making 00:09:55.169 --> 00:09:57.710 sure that you just want to do it in a respectful 00:09:57.710 --> 00:10:00.950 way and make sure that you're not being exclusive. 00:10:01.190 --> 00:10:03.509 You know, one of my favorite parts when I was 00:10:03.509 --> 00:10:07.950 at my last campus was when we did have like the 00:10:07.950 --> 00:10:09.509 PE teacher and the music teacher and I would 00:10:09.509 --> 00:10:13.309 get together and we would each do a lesson. Like 00:10:13.309 --> 00:10:15.629 we pulled the whole group that we were seeing 00:10:15.629 --> 00:10:18.850 together and do a lesson on three different holidays 00:10:18.850 --> 00:10:22.669 that were happening in winter and kind of. each 00:10:22.669 --> 00:10:25.169 of us would take one to focus on and we would 00:10:25.169 --> 00:10:27.710 do a little mini lesson and we'd get to do three 00:10:27.710 --> 00:10:29.610 all three of them in the time that we saw the 00:10:29.610 --> 00:10:31.730 students and it was really cool to see the students 00:10:31.730 --> 00:10:35.610 be like oh i i do that at home but i didn't know 00:10:35.610 --> 00:10:38.870 others do that like and get to see the differences 00:10:38.870 --> 00:10:42.350 because i think that's a big part of this time 00:10:42.350 --> 00:10:45.669 of year is like yeah even though there are differences 00:10:45.669 --> 00:10:49.889 most of these holidays come down to the celebration 00:10:49.889 --> 00:10:55.049 of of family and being togetherness and just 00:10:55.049 --> 00:10:57.970 that kind, you know, and like there is that similarity 00:10:57.970 --> 00:11:00.950 that that thread we can keep together. And like, 00:11:01.110 --> 00:11:04.309 if we can hold onto that and make things happen 00:11:04.309 --> 00:11:08.750 that way. So, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And there are 00:11:08.750 --> 00:11:10.409 like, yeah. And like you said, there's a lot 00:11:10.409 --> 00:11:12.330 of similarities with a lot of them. Like almost 00:11:12.330 --> 00:11:14.450 all of them include some kind of a gift giving 00:11:14.450 --> 00:11:18.529 or, you know, just being kind in general. Yeah. 00:11:18.909 --> 00:11:22.830 Yeah. Being with family. Yeah. That kind of stuff. 00:11:23.190 --> 00:11:25.350 Absolutely. It's good. Yeah. This book is great 00:11:25.350 --> 00:11:29.110 for that. You know, what's fun that I haven't 00:11:29.110 --> 00:11:34.870 told you about yet. So my new campus is I, there's 00:11:34.870 --> 00:11:37.230 going to be two things happening in the library 00:11:37.230 --> 00:11:41.750 this year in the month of December. One that 00:11:41.750 --> 00:11:43.850 I guess they've always done that I don't really 00:11:43.850 --> 00:11:46.860 know about. Too much other than I know that Santa 00:11:46.860 --> 00:11:49.879 comes to the library. I don't know when. I think 00:11:49.879 --> 00:11:53.200 there's a family event at one night. And like 00:11:53.200 --> 00:11:55.799 Christmas comes to the library. I don't know. 00:11:55.820 --> 00:11:57.919 There's a Christmas tree in my back office. I 00:11:57.919 --> 00:12:01.039 guess I have to set it up. I'm not sure. So that'll 00:12:01.039 --> 00:12:09.500 be happening. But I have, I have thoughts, but 00:12:09.500 --> 00:12:16.340 okay. I know you do. I know I feel them. I'm 00:12:16.340 --> 00:12:18.659 not sure how that really looks just yet. I've 00:12:18.659 --> 00:12:21.919 just been told Santa comes and there's gonna 00:12:21.919 --> 00:12:24.059 be a lot of Christmas happening. I don't know 00:12:24.059 --> 00:12:27.500 what it looks like. I don't know. It's this campus's 00:12:27.500 --> 00:12:29.659 tradition. So this year I'm just gonna honor 00:12:29.659 --> 00:12:32.580 their traditions and we'll roll with it. The 00:12:32.580 --> 00:12:35.980 other fun thing that I'm 90 % sure is going to 00:12:35.980 --> 00:12:38.620 happen, not positive yet, is during the month 00:12:38.620 --> 00:12:42.899 of December to make it more inclusive. I'm gonna 00:12:42.899 --> 00:12:47.480 get to do a snowman at night theme throughout 00:12:47.480 --> 00:12:53.559 the whole school and it's my last campus. I know 00:12:53.559 --> 00:12:55.440 you already know this but nobody else does yet. 00:12:55.840 --> 00:12:58.360 We used to have a massive polar express day and 00:12:58.360 --> 00:13:00.600 I organized like a train ride for all the kids 00:13:00.600 --> 00:13:03.720 and Santa came and he brought cookies or he brought 00:13:03.720 --> 00:13:07.059 hot chocolate and bells and magic snow from the 00:13:07.059 --> 00:13:09.559 North Pole and it was it was a magical day but 00:13:09.559 --> 00:13:13.629 it always made me slightly uncomfortable because 00:13:13.629 --> 00:13:15.590 of everything we've been talking about with the 00:13:15.590 --> 00:13:20.649 inclusivity and such. I did emphasize the book 00:13:20.649 --> 00:13:24.909 a lot and made sure that there was a literature 00:13:24.909 --> 00:13:32.250 connection, but I knew I was intentionally excluding 00:13:32.250 --> 00:13:37.480 kids, more or less, and I didn't like that. This 00:13:37.480 --> 00:13:39.779 campus, I was talking to some other people about 00:13:39.779 --> 00:13:41.519 Polar Express Day and I was a little sad that 00:13:41.519 --> 00:13:43.360 I wasn't going to bring magic. But then I was 00:13:43.360 --> 00:13:45.500 like kind of glad that I wasn't going to, you 00:13:45.500 --> 00:13:48.539 know, focus on just Christmas. So this year, 00:13:48.659 --> 00:13:51.620 I think we're going to do a snowman at night 00:13:51.620 --> 00:13:55.740 theme and do like winterize the library and bring 00:13:55.740 --> 00:13:58.019 in a massive snow machine for the playground. 00:13:59.659 --> 00:14:02.840 And I know I'm pretty sure it's going to happen. 00:14:02.980 --> 00:14:06.970 We started looking at vendors. and do like, like 00:14:06.970 --> 00:14:09.269 cut up snowflakes and hang them around the library. 00:14:09.629 --> 00:14:12.429 I'm very excited already. And I don't, I don't 00:14:12.429 --> 00:14:14.129 know, I've got Book Fair in a couple weeks, so 00:14:14.129 --> 00:14:16.350 I have Book Fair brain, so I haven't figured 00:14:16.350 --> 00:14:18.690 out all the little things that are going to go 00:14:18.690 --> 00:14:21.090 along with it. But I'm pretty excited. I still 00:14:21.090 --> 00:14:24.990 get to do a massive like winter event. And since 00:14:24.990 --> 00:14:28.379 it's going to be more snow themed, it'll be more 00:14:28.379 --> 00:14:31.620 inclusive for everybody, and the snowflakes and 00:14:31.620 --> 00:14:34.039 such can stay up until February, and I'm very 00:14:34.039 --> 00:14:36.539 excited. I'm gonna have to figure out how that 00:14:36.539 --> 00:14:39.740 works soon. I don't know. It's gonna be great. 00:14:40.179 --> 00:14:42.139 That's my little tangent for today. I hope you 00:14:42.139 --> 00:14:45.080 enjoyed it. That does sound interesting. No, 00:14:45.580 --> 00:14:48.679 I do. I did enjoy it because it made me think. 00:14:50.000 --> 00:14:53.500 Have you read Peter Reynolds' The Gift of Words? 00:14:54.879 --> 00:14:58.470 I don't think so. Okay. you need to read it. 00:14:58.590 --> 00:15:02.509 Because in it, it's about this boy that's looking 00:15:02.509 --> 00:15:06.690 for words of hope and love and joy. And in it, 00:15:07.909 --> 00:15:11.350 he collects these words and puts them all over 00:15:11.350 --> 00:15:18.090 a tree. So if you're going to have a tree in 00:15:18.090 --> 00:15:21.850 your library, you could read the book and have 00:15:21.850 --> 00:15:25.330 students come up with words and that's what you 00:15:25.330 --> 00:15:27.909 put on the tree. So then it's still more inclusive 00:15:27.909 --> 00:15:30.490 because it doesn't have to be specifically Christmas, 00:15:30.909 --> 00:15:33.610 but it can be words of affirmation and words 00:15:33.610 --> 00:15:39.110 of hope and joy. I like that. That you need to 00:15:39.110 --> 00:15:45.519 do this. That's great. Okay, there you go. And 00:15:45.519 --> 00:15:47.659 like they even have like on the Scholastic website 00:15:47.659 --> 00:15:50.080 for Peter Reynolds, they even have like a an 00:15:50.080 --> 00:15:51.840 activity sheet where it's like the gift of words 00:15:51.840 --> 00:15:54.299 and it explains and then it just has like where 00:15:54.299 --> 00:15:57.340 kids can brainstorm words before they make like 00:15:57.340 --> 00:16:00.299 a thing to put on the tree and stuff. So there 00:16:00.299 --> 00:16:04.179 you go. Thank you. I like that. That would be 00:16:04.179 --> 00:16:06.580 if I was going to be if it's like a you have 00:16:06.580 --> 00:16:09.950 to put up this Christmas tree. Like that's how 00:16:09.950 --> 00:16:11.970 I would end up getting around that. Cause I don't 00:16:11.970 --> 00:16:14.049 like that. Like not that I don't like Christmas 00:16:14.049 --> 00:16:15.789 trees. I have, we have a Christmas tree at my 00:16:15.789 --> 00:16:17.850 house that will be put up after Thanksgiving. 00:16:18.169 --> 00:16:20.450 Like it's not that I'm against Christmas. It's 00:16:20.450 --> 00:16:24.330 just that in, in the library setting, I don't 00:16:24.330 --> 00:16:26.610 want to exclude any of my students. And so like 00:16:26.610 --> 00:16:30.090 that might be a way where those students can 00:16:30.090 --> 00:16:33.490 still be included because they're it's not about 00:16:33.490 --> 00:16:37.289 a religious thing. It's just those, those words 00:16:37.289 --> 00:16:42.059 that are comforting and joyful and happy that 00:16:42.059 --> 00:16:44.860 are being put on the tree. And so like, they 00:16:44.860 --> 00:16:48.379 could be included in that without it becoming 00:16:48.379 --> 00:16:54.240 like a thing, you know? We got off on a really 00:16:54.240 --> 00:16:56.840 big tangent for this one, which was a really 00:16:56.840 --> 00:17:02.840 long, I know. It was important conversation. 00:17:02.960 --> 00:17:06.440 It was good. Yeah. All right, so the makerspace 00:17:06.440 --> 00:17:10.900 activity for this book. The makerspace activity 00:17:10.900 --> 00:17:12.859 that I would do with this book for my students 00:17:12.859 --> 00:17:16.099 is I bust out the card stock and have them make 00:17:16.099 --> 00:17:20.839 a winter card and have them draw a picture of 00:17:20.839 --> 00:17:23.559 how their family celebrates during the winter. 00:17:23.700 --> 00:17:26.559 And so they can make it as unique as they want 00:17:26.559 --> 00:17:30.279 it to be for them. It might just be a picture 00:17:30.279 --> 00:17:32.200 of just their family. It might be a picture of 00:17:32.200 --> 00:17:33.980 their family with a Christmas tree and Santa 00:17:33.980 --> 00:17:36.420 Claus. It might be a picture of their family 00:17:36.420 --> 00:17:39.059 with a menorah. It might, you know, there's all 00:17:39.059 --> 00:17:41.339 the different things that it could be, but it's 00:17:41.339 --> 00:17:44.180 up to the student to decide what part of winter 00:17:44.180 --> 00:17:46.359 and those winter holidays is important to them 00:17:46.359 --> 00:17:49.759 to put on it. And then I would have some like 00:17:49.759 --> 00:17:52.700 different like words pre -written up on like 00:17:52.700 --> 00:17:54.660 a board for them so they could put something 00:17:54.660 --> 00:17:58.240 inside. The the card itself and then they'd have 00:17:58.240 --> 00:18:01.539 a little card to take home. I Love that holiday. 00:18:01.859 --> 00:18:05.619 Yeah. Yeah, that's super cool. Very personalized. 00:18:05.619 --> 00:18:10.720 Yeah, love it So that'd be a nice way just to 00:18:10.720 --> 00:18:15.779 be oh allowed them to make it something that's 00:18:15.779 --> 00:18:18.359 You know unique to them and personal for them. 00:18:18.359 --> 00:18:22.140 So yeah, I like that's very cool Yeah, especially 00:18:22.140 --> 00:18:24.990 around that time of year like Don't like you 00:18:24.990 --> 00:18:27.210 know I don't pull out the crayons and markers 00:18:27.210 --> 00:18:30.529 and stuff too often because it becomes like a 00:18:30.529 --> 00:18:35.970 giant mess, but When we're getting close to winter 00:18:35.970 --> 00:18:39.450 break Kind of just steer into the skid and go 00:18:39.450 --> 00:18:41.450 with it right like it's gonna be a mess It's 00:18:41.450 --> 00:18:44.109 gonna be all the things everywhere, so let's 00:18:44.109 --> 00:18:46.910 just roll with it and just go ahead. Let's do 00:18:46.910 --> 00:18:56.900 it live it up And so this brings us to our library 00:18:56.900 --> 00:19:00.920 of littles management tip. And so as we're talking 00:19:00.920 --> 00:19:02.740 about winter holiday, something else that happens 00:19:02.740 --> 00:19:06.960 in December is hour of code. And for many people, 00:19:07.119 --> 00:19:10.099 hour of code is something that's done with the 00:19:10.099 --> 00:19:13.900 older students where they sit on a computer and 00:19:13.900 --> 00:19:17.019 practice coding using maybe like the hour of 00:19:17.019 --> 00:19:20.640 code website or other apps or programs that are 00:19:20.640 --> 00:19:24.369 set up for that purpose. that becomes really 00:19:24.369 --> 00:19:26.670 limiting, especially for our younger students, 00:19:26.890 --> 00:19:32.009 our pre -K students who coding is a skill that 00:19:32.009 --> 00:19:35.750 they can begin building the foundation for. Cause 00:19:35.750 --> 00:19:38.710 really what it comes down to at the pre -K level 00:19:38.710 --> 00:19:41.309 is it's a lot of learning cause and effect. I 00:19:41.309 --> 00:19:45.089 told the machine to do this and then this happened. 00:19:45.470 --> 00:19:50.180 And so there are some amazing tools that are 00:19:50.180 --> 00:19:54.880 available to practice teaching coding to our 00:19:54.880 --> 00:19:59.660 younger learners. If you start really big, there 00:19:59.660 --> 00:20:04.119 are the let's go code activities, which have 00:20:04.119 --> 00:20:07.079 basically they're squares of different shapes 00:20:07.079 --> 00:20:10.259 and colors that have different movements and 00:20:10.259 --> 00:20:12.339 they're big enough for kids to stand on. And 00:20:12.339 --> 00:20:15.299 so you can put those on the floor and code having 00:20:15.299 --> 00:20:19.180 the kids walk through the library following the 00:20:19.180 --> 00:20:21.579 the steps that are on the cards so that you can 00:20:21.579 --> 00:20:23.900 have that whole body movement then we can move 00:20:23.900 --> 00:20:27.960 on to things like the code and go mouse or the 00:20:27.960 --> 00:20:32.579 code and go mouse robots or the bee bots or i 00:20:32.579 --> 00:20:37.440 love using things like the coda pillar i have 00:20:37.440 --> 00:20:41.599 to be honest though i enjoyed coda pillar before 00:20:41.599 --> 00:20:44.380 they altered it i enjoyed coda pillar when you 00:20:44.380 --> 00:20:49.250 had to plug the pieces in together Yeah, they 00:20:49.250 --> 00:20:51.829 don't do that anymore. The new code of pillars, 00:20:51.829 --> 00:20:54.890 it's all already connected and you just turn 00:20:54.890 --> 00:20:58.990 a dial on each segment to change what it does. 00:20:59.609 --> 00:21:03.470 The old ones, each segment did a specific thing 00:21:03.470 --> 00:21:05.609 and so you could unplug them and plug them back 00:21:05.609 --> 00:21:07.750 in and they're all USB port plugs just getting 00:21:07.750 --> 00:21:10.009 plugged in. And so you could change it that way. 00:21:10.170 --> 00:21:13.069 And I liked the physically having to take it 00:21:13.069 --> 00:21:15.250 apart and put it back together to change the 00:21:15.250 --> 00:21:19.680 movements. Cause I think that was more of like 00:21:19.680 --> 00:21:22.700 a concrete change, as opposed to just turning 00:21:22.700 --> 00:21:25.920 a dial on the piece to change what it does for 00:21:25.920 --> 00:21:30.339 the kids. But I digress. There's also the botly, 00:21:30.339 --> 00:21:32.880 the coding robot, which uses a remote control 00:21:32.880 --> 00:21:36.779 to tell it how to move. And one of my favorites 00:21:36.779 --> 00:21:43.740 is actually Cubeto. Cubeto is a wooden robot 00:21:43.740 --> 00:21:47.380 where it's a it's a cube, but it comes with basically, 00:21:47.920 --> 00:21:51.259 it's kind of like a wooden tablet. In the wooden 00:21:51.259 --> 00:21:54.579 tablet, there are spots for you to place plastic 00:21:54.579 --> 00:21:59.079 tiles. Each plastic tile is a certain color and 00:21:59.079 --> 00:22:02.779 those colors tell the robot what to do. And so 00:22:02.779 --> 00:22:05.740 like some of the tiles tell the robot to move 00:22:05.740 --> 00:22:07.980 forward. Some of the tiles tell it to move right. 00:22:08.079 --> 00:22:10.619 Some of it tell it to move left. And there's 00:22:10.619 --> 00:22:13.339 even a tile that tells it to follow the function. 00:22:13.359 --> 00:22:15.849 And then at the bottom of the the tablet, the 00:22:15.849 --> 00:22:20.430 wooden tablet, there are four open spaces that 00:22:20.430 --> 00:22:22.369 you can make functions. So like when you put 00:22:22.369 --> 00:22:26.410 that function piece into the code, it does the 00:22:26.410 --> 00:22:28.910 four steps that you tell it to do in the function, 00:22:28.970 --> 00:22:32.069 which is kind of cool. And so all of these things 00:22:32.069 --> 00:22:37.170 allow the kids to move pieces and change things 00:22:37.170 --> 00:22:40.950 to see what the robots can do. And none of them 00:22:40.950 --> 00:22:44.619 require screens, which is really great. I love 00:22:44.619 --> 00:22:47.700 that it doesn't have to be them in front of a 00:22:47.700 --> 00:22:52.539 screen doing the things. The other ones that 00:22:52.539 --> 00:22:55.799 are great are the Sphero Indie because those 00:22:55.799 --> 00:22:58.200 use the mats and it's a little car that just 00:22:58.200 --> 00:23:01.400 follows the mats and you can the mats have a 00:23:01.400 --> 00:23:04.500 set function but you can go in and change that 00:23:04.500 --> 00:23:06.940 function to be something different so you can 00:23:06.940 --> 00:23:09.440 have the car do different things as they go over 00:23:09.440 --> 00:23:13.460 the different mats and Another fun one is using, 00:23:13.480 --> 00:23:16.380 they're expensive, but using the cubelets as 00:23:16.380 --> 00:23:18.420 well. Like having the kids, telling the kids 00:23:18.420 --> 00:23:21.920 that they need an input, they need an output 00:23:21.920 --> 00:23:24.380 and they need a power source and letting them 00:23:24.380 --> 00:23:26.880 see what they can come up with with those. There's 00:23:26.880 --> 00:23:29.140 lots of different ways that we can introduce 00:23:29.140 --> 00:23:33.039 coding to these younger kids and there are lots 00:23:33.039 --> 00:23:37.559 of fun. There are some really great things available. 00:23:38.019 --> 00:23:40.079 Some of them get very expensive very quickly. 00:23:42.319 --> 00:23:45.539 It's I think in my opinion a lot of them are 00:23:45.539 --> 00:23:47.519 really worth it because it's not the kids just 00:23:47.519 --> 00:23:50.420 sitting in front of a screen It does have them 00:23:50.420 --> 00:23:55.200 physically Doing something not just sitting in 00:23:55.200 --> 00:23:57.299 front of a computer and dragging the thing and 00:23:57.299 --> 00:24:01.619 saying, okay, it's done like and Like this is 00:24:01.619 --> 00:24:04.500 really just at this point at this age It's learning 00:24:04.500 --> 00:24:06.920 cause and effect and if it doesn't do what I 00:24:06.920 --> 00:24:09.539 want it to do. I need to change it so that it 00:24:09.539 --> 00:24:12.359 does what I want it to do and it's a it's a lot 00:24:12.359 --> 00:24:16.000 of fun. I a lot of times what I'll do is I will 00:24:16.000 --> 00:24:20.440 use some of those like the coding mats that like 00:24:20.440 --> 00:24:24.299 the um that I mentioned earlier the let's go 00:24:24.299 --> 00:24:28.019 code activity set and I'll put pieces out and 00:24:28.019 --> 00:24:30.039 I'll let the kids move them around and then like 00:24:30.039 --> 00:24:33.720 I'm their robot kind of that does what they've 00:24:33.720 --> 00:24:36.240 coded and we see if it works what they want me 00:24:36.240 --> 00:24:38.460 to be able to do and what I end up doing based 00:24:38.460 --> 00:24:41.180 on what the the mats on the floor that they placed 00:24:41.180 --> 00:24:43.380 tell me to do and that kind of thing. Oh that's 00:24:43.380 --> 00:24:46.319 a great idea. That's kind of usually how I introduce 00:24:46.319 --> 00:24:50.259 it and then we get out like the code and go robots 00:24:50.259 --> 00:24:54.299 and stuff like that to let them see. But it's 00:24:54.299 --> 00:24:57.640 a lot of fun, it's a lot of hands -on and I feel 00:24:57.640 --> 00:24:59.900 like that's really where it needs to start with 00:24:59.900 --> 00:25:03.220 these young kids is the hands -on. so that they 00:25:03.220 --> 00:25:06.400 have that tactile part of the learning going 00:25:06.400 --> 00:25:11.180 on. Yeah, they really do need that. Our kids 00:25:11.180 --> 00:25:14.079 spend way too much time on screens in general 00:25:14.079 --> 00:25:17.039 anyway, so the less time we can have them on 00:25:17.039 --> 00:25:20.000 screens, I think, the better, as far as the younger 00:25:20.000 --> 00:25:23.279 learners go. I mean, they're gonna have to be 00:25:23.279 --> 00:25:25.839 on screens eventually, but they just spend so 00:25:25.839 --> 00:25:30.880 much time just stuck there that they... I don't 00:25:30.880 --> 00:25:33.299 feel like as much authentic learning goes on 00:25:33.299 --> 00:25:37.240 as it should, especially when they're given free 00:25:37.240 --> 00:25:40.160 rein most of the time at home to just do whatever 00:25:40.160 --> 00:25:43.900 they want on screens. They view it as an entertainment 00:25:43.900 --> 00:25:47.519 tool rather than something to actually engage 00:25:47.519 --> 00:25:51.480 with and learn on. Although obviously it can 00:25:51.480 --> 00:25:56.400 be used appropriately. They just, I think it's 00:25:56.400 --> 00:26:01.460 even harder to Introduce it, introduce screens 00:26:01.460 --> 00:26:05.059 because we're already working against how much 00:26:05.059 --> 00:26:08.220 time they already spend on screens doing, you 00:26:08.220 --> 00:26:12.299 know, doing absolutely nothing. So yeah, less 00:26:12.299 --> 00:26:16.220 less time on screens is better for a lot of a 00:26:16.220 --> 00:26:19.660 lot of reasons. But yeah, all those are really 00:26:19.660 --> 00:26:23.319 great ways to kind of introduce any kind of coding. 00:26:23.400 --> 00:26:27.480 And even if you can't afford to buy any of those 00:26:27.480 --> 00:26:29.690 things. Because you're right, it does get very 00:26:29.690 --> 00:26:32.309 expensive very quickly. There's other ways to 00:26:32.309 --> 00:26:35.009 like, like you can even just introduce like patterning 00:26:35.009 --> 00:26:39.049 or just because really you're telling the robot, 00:26:39.230 --> 00:26:41.329 you're giving the robot instructions, but you 00:26:41.329 --> 00:26:44.450 can't. give the robot instructions if you yourself 00:26:44.450 --> 00:26:46.569 can't take instructions like you still have to 00:26:46.569 --> 00:26:48.670 have that basic understanding of language and 00:26:48.670 --> 00:26:50.970 such so like you could also just have the kids 00:26:50.970 --> 00:26:54.490 follow basic instructions or do basic you know 00:26:54.490 --> 00:26:57.190 ab patterns or something with you know duplo 00:26:57.190 --> 00:27:00.990 legos or something and like just anything like 00:27:00.990 --> 00:27:03.910 that is also a good really basic like if you're 00:27:03.910 --> 00:27:06.230 just working with three and four year olds like 00:27:06.230 --> 00:27:09.690 like really basic skills like that are also really 00:27:09.690 --> 00:27:13.470 important for Future coding skills like following 00:27:13.470 --> 00:27:17.690 directions and patterning like that's That's 00:27:17.690 --> 00:27:19.690 those are skills that the a lot of these kids 00:27:19.690 --> 00:27:23.009 need help with anyway And those are going to 00:27:23.009 --> 00:27:27.329 be foundational for coding later on so I mean 00:27:27.329 --> 00:27:29.769 even if you can't afford any of the fancy stuff 00:27:29.769 --> 00:27:31.549 There's still other things that you can do in 00:27:31.549 --> 00:27:35.849 the library for sure for our code with pre -k 00:27:35.849 --> 00:27:39.769 and Just since we're also talking about our code 00:27:39.960 --> 00:27:42.420 I'm going to plug another book. One of the books 00:27:42.420 --> 00:27:47.680 that I love to use to introduce coding is How 00:27:47.680 --> 00:27:51.019 to Code a Sandcastle by Josh Funk, illustrated 00:27:51.019 --> 00:27:55.279 by Sarah Palacios. That's a great way to introduce 00:27:55.279 --> 00:27:58.539 the concept also because it talks about like, 00:27:58.619 --> 00:28:01.299 it's really problem solving. This is my problem. 00:28:01.579 --> 00:28:04.680 I need to work to get to a solution and sometimes 00:28:04.680 --> 00:28:07.549 my solution isn't. gonna work and so I'm gonna 00:28:07.549 --> 00:28:11.029 have to backtrack and try again. And so that's 00:28:11.029 --> 00:28:14.769 a great, great story that I try to use the week 00:28:14.769 --> 00:28:17.269 before Hour of Code so that I've kind of introduced 00:28:17.269 --> 00:28:20.309 the concept before we get our hands on some of 00:28:20.309 --> 00:28:22.470 those things too. Yeah, that's a great book. 00:28:22.690 --> 00:28:27.849 I love that one. Back to winter holidays. The 00:28:27.849 --> 00:28:31.410 next book we're gonna talk about is How Does 00:28:31.410 --> 00:28:33.940 Santa Go Down the Chimney? It's published by 00:28:33.940 --> 00:28:38.779 Candlewick Press in 2023. The author is Mac Barnett 00:28:38.779 --> 00:28:42.519 and the illustrator is John Klassen. And this 00:28:42.519 --> 00:28:47.299 one was a CCBC Choice Selection for 2024 and 00:28:47.299 --> 00:28:52.359 a Junior Library Guild Selection. And the author, 00:28:52.779 --> 00:28:56.980 Mac Barnett, has written a lot of books. He is 00:28:56.980 --> 00:29:00.680 the ninth U .S. National Ambassador for Young 00:29:00.680 --> 00:29:02.970 People's Literature. I didn't know that was a 00:29:02.970 --> 00:29:05.250 thing until this. He was appointed by the Library 00:29:05.250 --> 00:29:08.609 of Congress and Every Child a Reader. He is an 00:29:08.609 --> 00:29:10.789 award -winning, best -selling author of stories 00:29:10.789 --> 00:29:13.289 for children, and his work has been translated 00:29:13.289 --> 00:29:16.049 into more than 30 languages and has sold more 00:29:16.049 --> 00:29:19.250 than five million copies worldwide. He currently 00:29:19.250 --> 00:29:23.740 lives in Oakland, California. And he's written 00:29:23.740 --> 00:29:25.579 a whole lot, so I will not go through all of 00:29:25.579 --> 00:29:28.619 them. But some of his other books are, some of 00:29:28.619 --> 00:29:31.180 the novels he's written are the Terrible 2 series, 00:29:31.220 --> 00:29:34.660 which was written with Jory John. And he also 00:29:34.660 --> 00:29:38.359 did the Mac B Kid Spy series. He did the graphic 00:29:38.359 --> 00:29:43.019 novels, the first Cat in Space series. And he's 00:29:43.019 --> 00:29:46.200 done a whole lot with John Classen for picture 00:29:46.200 --> 00:29:47.680 books. Some of the picture books that they've 00:29:47.680 --> 00:29:50.400 worked on together are the shapes trilogy, which 00:29:50.400 --> 00:29:55.299 is Triangle, Square and Circle, which also has 00:29:55.299 --> 00:30:00.500 its own show on Apple Plus, Apple TV Plus. I 00:30:00.500 --> 00:30:02.559 don't know what that I don't watch TV. I don't 00:30:02.559 --> 00:30:04.440 know. I was not aware that that existed, but 00:30:04.440 --> 00:30:06.799 that sounds cool. I didn't know there was a show 00:30:06.799 --> 00:30:09.180 based on it either until this and I guess it's 00:30:09.180 --> 00:30:11.799 in stop motion or something. OK, I don't know. 00:30:12.009 --> 00:30:16.289 I don't really TV. I'm a reader. Yeah, all the 00:30:16.289 --> 00:30:18.269 way. So I don't really know about the TV things, 00:30:18.309 --> 00:30:21.930 but I guess there's a shapes show somewhere on 00:30:21.930 --> 00:30:25.789 Apple TV. So that's cool. Yeah, they've also 00:30:25.789 --> 00:30:28.730 another book that they've done together is the 00:30:28.730 --> 00:30:32.670 wolf, the duck and the mouse. And there was another 00:30:32.670 --> 00:30:35.559 one. I'm missing the Three Billy Goats Gruff. 00:30:36.000 --> 00:30:39.140 Some other books that Mac Barnett has done are 00:30:39.140 --> 00:30:41.740 20 Questions, which is illustrated by Christian 00:30:41.740 --> 00:30:46.299 Robinson. Leo, a ghost story, also illustrated 00:30:46.299 --> 00:30:49.980 by Christian Robinson. And he wrote the Jack 00:30:49.980 --> 00:30:54.359 series with Greg Pizzoli. And really, there's 00:30:54.359 --> 00:30:57.180 a lot more. I could keep going, but I will not. 00:31:00.400 --> 00:31:04.480 And then we have our illustrator, John Cleson. 00:31:05.400 --> 00:31:07.880 He is a children's book author and illustrator. 00:31:08.779 --> 00:31:13.500 His book, This Is Not My Hat, won the 2012 Caldecott 00:31:13.500 --> 00:31:18.480 Award, as well as the British Kate Greenway Medal 00:31:18.480 --> 00:31:21.720 for Illustration. He grew up in Niagara Falls 00:31:21.720 --> 00:31:27.240 and Toronto, Ontario. and he later studied animation 00:31:27.240 --> 00:31:30.720 at Sheridan College and moved to Los Angeles. 00:31:31.480 --> 00:31:35.740 So some of the books that he has done, he has 00:31:35.740 --> 00:31:39.599 written and illustrated the Hat Trilogy, The 00:31:39.599 --> 00:31:44.640 Rock from the Sky and the Skull, Tyrolean Folk 00:31:44.640 --> 00:31:48.759 Tale, which was, yeah, so those were the ones 00:31:48.759 --> 00:31:50.799 that he wrote and illustrated. Ben, he's also 00:31:50.799 --> 00:31:55.049 illustrated. Cat's Night Out by Carolyn Stutson, 00:31:56.109 --> 00:32:01.529 House Held Up by Trees by Ted Couser, and The 00:32:01.529 --> 00:32:05.650 Dark by Lemony Snicket, and then books by Mac 00:32:05.650 --> 00:32:09.349 Barnett that he has illustrated, The Shape Trilogy, 00:32:09.589 --> 00:32:13.490 Extra Yarn, Sam and Dave Dig a Hole, The Wolf, 00:32:13.589 --> 00:32:16.289 Duck and Mouse, and The Three Billy Goats Gruff. 00:32:17.899 --> 00:32:21.660 And in this book, there's an unseen narrator 00:32:21.660 --> 00:32:24.420 that just imagines different ways that Santa 00:32:24.420 --> 00:32:28.200 might go down the chimney on Christmas Eve, and 00:32:28.200 --> 00:32:34.859 some of the ways get real creative with it. They're 00:32:34.859 --> 00:32:37.039 just imagining the ways that Santa might go down 00:32:37.039 --> 00:32:39.559 the chimney, and it's like, does he turn into 00:32:39.559 --> 00:32:44.960 fire? No, probably not fire. I don't know maybe 00:32:44.960 --> 00:32:47.900 he turns into taffy and gets all stringy and 00:32:47.900 --> 00:32:50.519 that's how he goes down and it's just like really 00:32:50.519 --> 00:32:54.299 creative ways that Santa might go down the chimney 00:32:54.299 --> 00:32:57.880 and what Santa might do when he comes in um when 00:32:57.880 --> 00:33:01.420 he is in the house and like is he good with dogs 00:33:01.420 --> 00:33:05.119 I bet he knows their names the way it's written 00:33:05.119 --> 00:33:09.200 is very like there's only a couple of lines of 00:33:09.200 --> 00:33:12.950 text on each page So the emphasis is definitely 00:33:12.950 --> 00:33:16.730 on the illustrations. John Classen has won the 00:33:16.730 --> 00:33:20.529 Caldecott for a reason, for sure. The illustrations 00:33:20.529 --> 00:33:23.690 are fabulous. They're in his, you know, signature 00:33:23.690 --> 00:33:26.390 style, so it's like slightly darker and kind 00:33:26.390 --> 00:33:30.430 of, you can tell that it's been manipulated digitally. 00:33:30.990 --> 00:33:34.809 They're fabulous illustrations that really kind 00:33:34.809 --> 00:33:39.220 of make the book. And I love that it's the way 00:33:39.220 --> 00:33:42.980 it's written. It's very much sounds like a kid 00:33:42.980 --> 00:33:49.000 genuinely wondering like How Santa does all of 00:33:49.000 --> 00:33:51.660 these things like what happens when there's no 00:33:51.660 --> 00:33:55.359 You know chimney. What do we do now? Does he 00:33:55.359 --> 00:33:58.559 have night vision? I don't know and like I just 00:33:58.559 --> 00:34:02.319 love all the different wonderings in it and I 00:34:02.319 --> 00:34:05.119 think that you could it could begin a dialogue 00:34:05.119 --> 00:34:08.260 with kids on like different on what they think 00:34:08.260 --> 00:34:13.440 might happen. It's just a very it's I think the 00:34:13.440 --> 00:34:16.519 illustrations do make it very engaging. It's 00:34:16.519 --> 00:34:19.900 very MacBurnett style for of writing I think 00:34:19.900 --> 00:34:24.340 for picture books at least is very I don't know 00:34:24.340 --> 00:34:26.900 calming I guess like just the way they're written 00:34:26.900 --> 00:34:29.539 they're not rhyming or anything but I just feel 00:34:29.539 --> 00:34:33.150 like it's almost conversational where he's like 00:34:33.150 --> 00:34:36.809 talking directly to you is the way most of his 00:34:36.809 --> 00:34:39.590 books are written for the picture books anyway. 00:34:40.710 --> 00:34:43.650 And I like that there's like really no solution 00:34:43.650 --> 00:34:45.809 at the end of the book so and it leaves it open 00:34:45.809 --> 00:34:48.670 to the kids kind of wondering how he might go 00:34:48.670 --> 00:34:51.389 down the chimney himself. I do like with this 00:34:51.389 --> 00:34:55.409 one in particular how it does focus on Christmas 00:34:55.409 --> 00:34:58.250 and that is obviously a religious holiday but 00:34:58.250 --> 00:35:02.679 I think A lot of people also who celebrate Christmas 00:35:02.679 --> 00:35:05.420 in our society aren't necessarily religious. 00:35:05.579 --> 00:35:08.559 I think that's just like a societal thing that 00:35:08.559 --> 00:35:12.099 we do in America. That's just what a lot of us 00:35:12.099 --> 00:35:15.039 do, whether they are Christian or not, which 00:35:15.039 --> 00:35:18.239 is why, like in the last book, you know, there 00:35:18.239 --> 00:35:21.099 was the, how did they phrase it? Hanukrismus? 00:35:21.320 --> 00:35:24.380 Hanumus? Chrismica. Chrismica. There you go. 00:35:24.760 --> 00:35:29.449 Like, just because like that's it's It is a religious 00:35:29.449 --> 00:35:31.570 holiday and I get that and the you very much 00:35:31.570 --> 00:35:34.989 can go in that direction But being in a school 00:35:34.989 --> 00:35:37.650 library again talking about the inclusivity. 00:35:38.590 --> 00:35:43.210 I I think though there's a Greater like this 00:35:43.210 --> 00:35:46.230 one has a greater chance of like including Everybody 00:35:46.230 --> 00:35:49.210 because it's not going for their religious standpoint 00:35:49.210 --> 00:35:54.610 at all. It's just you know the more of the secular 00:35:54.610 --> 00:35:57.820 version of Christmas so to speak I guess because 00:35:57.820 --> 00:36:01.260 there is I mean the reality is there is kind 00:36:01.260 --> 00:36:03.820 of a lot of different ways that you could approach 00:36:03.820 --> 00:36:07.179 Christmas and this one I think is a little bit 00:36:07.179 --> 00:36:11.099 more inclusive. I would pair this with another 00:36:11.099 --> 00:36:16.320 holiday as well so that kids can you know recognize 00:36:16.320 --> 00:36:20.300 or learn that there's not just Christmas that 00:36:20.300 --> 00:36:24.360 we're celebrating but I do like the that it's 00:36:24.360 --> 00:36:29.320 a little bit more unique and it's not just like 00:36:29.320 --> 00:36:31.539 it is Christmas, but it's not, I guess, if that 00:36:31.539 --> 00:36:34.440 makes sense. I think, I mean, well, it is Christmas. 00:36:34.659 --> 00:36:38.159 I'll just admit it that, but it's, I feel like 00:36:38.159 --> 00:36:41.320 it's a more inclusive Christmas. Absolutely. 00:36:41.760 --> 00:36:43.940 I really enjoyed this book. It was really cute. 00:36:44.300 --> 00:36:47.719 I love some of the creative ways that they were 00:36:47.719 --> 00:36:50.559 thinking Santa might come in. Like the, if you 00:36:50.559 --> 00:36:52.659 don't have a chimney, does he slide in through 00:36:52.659 --> 00:36:56.329 like the mail slot and like the idea that Santa 00:36:56.329 --> 00:36:58.909 folds himself up into the size of an envelope 00:36:58.909 --> 00:37:04.929 with a Santa stamp and it's pushed into the slot 00:37:04.929 --> 00:37:06.849 by one of the reindeer or something like that. 00:37:07.369 --> 00:37:08.989 Like there's some really cute ones and I did 00:37:08.989 --> 00:37:11.329 like at the end that it was you know I don't 00:37:11.329 --> 00:37:13.369 know how he does it I'm just glad he does kind 00:37:13.369 --> 00:37:15.750 of thing and I just so like it's still open -ended 00:37:15.750 --> 00:37:19.210 and it's still it's not stepping on anyone's 00:37:19.210 --> 00:37:21.789 toes as far as like how the magic happens it's 00:37:21.789 --> 00:37:25.489 just some ideas and just happy that it happens 00:37:25.489 --> 00:37:29.070 kind of thing. So something's just happened and 00:37:29.070 --> 00:37:34.849 that's okay. Yep. Yeah. So I think for a makerspace 00:37:34.849 --> 00:37:37.750 activity for this one, it might be fun to like 00:37:37.750 --> 00:37:40.170 either build a house and try and fit Santa down 00:37:40.170 --> 00:37:42.429 the chimney. That would be kind of complicated 00:37:42.429 --> 00:37:46.440 though. So really just building any or you could 00:37:46.440 --> 00:37:48.679 build some kind of a contraption to get Santa 00:37:48.679 --> 00:37:50.659 inside of a house. There's a lot of different 00:37:50.659 --> 00:37:52.860 buildings, I think, that you could do with this 00:37:52.860 --> 00:37:55.719 one because of the different ways that Santa 00:37:55.719 --> 00:37:59.059 might go down the chimney on Christmas Eve. You 00:37:59.059 --> 00:38:01.039 could also just have the kids draw a picture 00:38:01.039 --> 00:38:04.219 of different ways that they think that Santa 00:38:04.219 --> 00:38:08.480 might go down the chimney. This one might be 00:38:08.480 --> 00:38:12.239 a fun one for... Um, like a class book where 00:38:12.239 --> 00:38:15.179 everybody comes up with their own way that Santa 00:38:15.179 --> 00:38:17.639 might go down the chimney on Christmas Eve and 00:38:17.639 --> 00:38:20.480 everybody could, you know, contribute a page 00:38:20.480 --> 00:38:23.500 to it and dictate a sentence with Santa goes 00:38:23.500 --> 00:38:26.079 down the chimney by, you know, and then they 00:38:26.079 --> 00:38:28.119 fill in the blank. So there's a lot of different 00:38:28.119 --> 00:38:29.719 directions. I think you could go with this one 00:38:29.719 --> 00:38:32.880 because it is so creative and unique with the 00:38:32.880 --> 00:38:34.579 different ways that Santa goes down the chimney. 00:38:35.400 --> 00:38:39.039 So yeah. I love those ideas. Yeah. I think, I 00:38:39.039 --> 00:38:42.699 think. a class book would be really fun to to 00:38:42.699 --> 00:38:45.519 see what all their ideas of what how Santa might 00:38:45.519 --> 00:38:49.099 do it yeah it's pretty cool yeah I think it would 00:38:49.099 --> 00:38:52.179 be a lot of fun it'd be cute I think the kids 00:38:52.179 --> 00:38:53.619 would enjoy reading that together after that 00:38:53.619 --> 00:38:57.699 was all completed too yeah yeah maybe I'll try 00:38:57.699 --> 00:39:00.199 that this year I think I might since I have Santa 00:39:00.199 --> 00:39:03.179 coming to my library apparently yeah we could 00:39:03.179 --> 00:39:12.079 read it to Santa okay anyway Well, thank you 00:39:12.079 --> 00:39:14.739 all for joining us today on this episode of Librarians 00:39:14.739 --> 00:39:16.760 of Littles, and we hope you found some fresh 00:39:16.760 --> 00:39:19.260 ideas for inspiring our young readers. 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