WEBVTT 00:00:00.110 --> 00:00:04.570 I went, the week before spring break, Sarah's 00:00:04.570 --> 00:00:10.470 school, had, um, Jared Krasowska. And that was 00:00:10.470 --> 00:00:13.509 cool. That was really cool. It was a really good, 00:00:13.550 --> 00:00:18.929 he does a really good presentation and he was 00:00:18.929 --> 00:00:21.030 really personable, really nice, really nice guy. 00:00:21.250 --> 00:00:25.489 Cause he was here that week because that Friday, 00:00:27.170 --> 00:00:30.219 it was, I guess it wasn't the week of Spring 00:00:30.219 --> 00:00:31.920 break it was the week before spring. It was the 00:00:31.920 --> 00:00:34.359 week before that. Yeah, but that Friday was the 00:00:34.359 --> 00:00:38.020 North Texas Teen Book Festival and he was one 00:00:38.020 --> 00:00:42.159 of the the speakers that afternoon and so that's 00:00:42.159 --> 00:00:44.820 why he was like in North Texas and that's why 00:00:44.820 --> 00:00:47.500 He was able to do that because he did that's 00:00:47.500 --> 00:00:50.420 cool He did North Riverside in the morning and 00:00:50.420 --> 00:00:52.960 then he did blue bonnet in the afternoon and 00:00:52.960 --> 00:00:55.799 so I went to his last session in the afternoon 00:00:55.799 --> 00:00:58.359 and it was really cool because he's got he's 00:00:58.299 --> 00:01:02.060 Got an interesting life. He grew up in like Massachusetts 00:01:02.060 --> 00:01:04.959 and So like the other thing is I didn't realize 00:01:04.959 --> 00:01:07.379 he had as many books as he has like I always 00:01:07.379 --> 00:01:09.719 say that but Like there are certain books that 00:01:09.719 --> 00:01:11.939 he's really famous for and then there's other 00:01:11.939 --> 00:01:13.640 books that I didn't realize that he had done 00:01:13.640 --> 00:01:16.000 He's really famous for the lunch lady series 00:01:16.000 --> 00:01:21.500 and for his book. Hey kiddo But I didn't realize 00:01:21.500 --> 00:01:23.319 that he started out doing like picture books 00:01:23.319 --> 00:01:25.959 and stuff like that and so he's got some picture 00:01:25.959 --> 00:01:30.150 books and then he also has done the Jedi Academy 00:01:30.150 --> 00:01:32.909 books. Oh really? That was it? Yeah. Yeah. I 00:01:32.909 --> 00:01:34.930 didn't realize that. Which is pretty cool. But 00:01:34.930 --> 00:01:37.670 he's he talked about his life in a little bit, 00:01:37.810 --> 00:01:40.689 not a ton, but like he was basically raised by 00:01:40.689 --> 00:01:47.349 his grandparents and he wanted to be like an 00:01:47.349 --> 00:01:52.569 author and an illustrator and he talked to the 00:01:52.569 --> 00:01:56.540 kids he talks about like how his first book idea 00:01:56.540 --> 00:02:00.859 that he had he wrote this story and he sent it 00:02:00.859 --> 00:02:04.099 out like literally like 20 or 30 times and got 00:02:04.099 --> 00:02:06.959 rejected every single time and he kept doing 00:02:06.959 --> 00:02:09.080 it and kept doing it and then he finally realized 00:02:09.080 --> 00:02:11.900 that maybe that wasn't the best approach so instead 00:02:11.900 --> 00:02:16.780 of trying to get his foot in the door with his 00:02:16.780 --> 00:02:20.919 stories he started making postcards with just 00:02:20.919 --> 00:02:25.009 random illustrations and sending those out finally 00:02:25.009 --> 00:02:27.469 he got kind of like somebody saw his artwork 00:02:27.469 --> 00:02:29.849 and started with him from there and he went like 00:02:29.849 --> 00:02:31.870 that's when he made he was able to make his first 00:02:31.870 --> 00:02:33.629 picture book and that kind of thing go from that 00:02:33.629 --> 00:02:38.550 that's interesting and when he after his like 00:02:38.550 --> 00:02:41.129 a couple of his books came out he was doing a 00:02:41.129 --> 00:02:44.770 tour an author tour and he ended up back at the 00:02:44.770 --> 00:02:48.569 elementary school that he went to school at and 00:02:48.569 --> 00:02:52.669 the lunch ladies were the same lunch ladies that 00:02:52.669 --> 00:02:56.349 he had And, like, one of them came up to him 00:02:56.349 --> 00:02:59.189 and said, you know, like, my kid or my grandkid 00:02:59.189 --> 00:03:02.509 really loves this book. And he was like, whoa. 00:03:03.650 --> 00:03:06.289 And he said it. He was like, you don't really 00:03:06.289 --> 00:03:09.430 think of them as people when you're a kid? That's 00:03:09.430 --> 00:03:12.750 true. And so, like, the fact that she had a family 00:03:12.750 --> 00:03:15.650 and had children in her life that were reading 00:03:15.650 --> 00:03:19.509 his picture books is kind of like, it was like 00:03:19.509 --> 00:03:22.199 a gut punch, like, whoa. my reality is completely 00:03:22.199 --> 00:03:24.240 changed now that I know this information kind 00:03:24.240 --> 00:03:26.780 of thing and that's when he started thinking 00:03:26.780 --> 00:03:29.879 about making the lunch lady series and when they 00:03:29.879 --> 00:03:32.240 originally made the series he was trying to figure 00:03:32.240 --> 00:03:33.699 out how to make it and he wanted to make it a 00:03:33.699 --> 00:03:35.560 picture book and he that didn't feel right they 00:03:35.560 --> 00:03:37.199 tried making a chapter book that didn't feel 00:03:37.199 --> 00:03:38.680 right and that's when he was like graphic novel 00:03:38.680 --> 00:03:42.780 but at the time main publishers weren't making 00:03:42.780 --> 00:03:46.520 graphic novels like it was it was a risky thing 00:03:46.520 --> 00:03:50.460 and it was still relatively new and so He said 00:03:50.460 --> 00:03:53.580 that like he finally convinced them But they 00:03:53.580 --> 00:03:55.659 were like, okay But you can use only three colors 00:03:55.659 --> 00:03:57.560 because we're not doing full color because that's 00:03:57.560 --> 00:04:00.099 too expensive to print and so that's why he chose 00:04:00.099 --> 00:04:03.659 like The yellow is the main color and then like 00:04:03.659 --> 00:04:08.379 the black and white beyond it kind of thing And 00:04:08.379 --> 00:04:12.120 then the what I thought was really cool was he 00:04:12.120 --> 00:04:16.579 showed the kids how he does his artwork too He 00:04:17.180 --> 00:04:20.620 He was able to project using his iPad or whatever 00:04:20.620 --> 00:04:23.339 he used his tablet that he used And he explained 00:04:23.339 --> 00:04:26.319 to them that when he first did all of the artwork 00:04:26.319 --> 00:04:30.540 The way he does it is he's like he shows he showed 00:04:30.540 --> 00:04:33.199 him a picture of what his table looks like and 00:04:33.199 --> 00:04:35.300 What materials he has on it and stuff and he's 00:04:35.300 --> 00:04:37.459 lit I got these kind of erasers here and this 00:04:37.459 --> 00:04:42.560 and this this is like he has like a brush and 00:04:42.560 --> 00:04:47.279 black ink and blue colored pencil and I had always 00:04:47.279 --> 00:04:50.000 seen people use like blue colored pencils and 00:04:50.000 --> 00:04:53.459 stuff like that for their sketching and I didn't 00:04:53.459 --> 00:04:56.420 really understand why and he explained it to 00:04:56.420 --> 00:05:00.040 he explained it and so he showed us as he did 00:05:00.040 --> 00:05:04.319 it on the tablet he sketches using this it's 00:05:04.319 --> 00:05:09.139 a special blue colored pencil and once he sketched 00:05:09.139 --> 00:05:13.060 out what he wanted he goes over it in black ink 00:05:14.689 --> 00:05:17.829 And what happens is when, so when he was originally 00:05:17.829 --> 00:05:19.870 making these, now it's all done digitally, but 00:05:19.870 --> 00:05:21.730 when he's originally, when he was originally 00:05:21.730 --> 00:05:25.829 making them, he was doing it on paper and sending 00:05:25.829 --> 00:05:30.350 it to the publisher. But the publisher doesn't 00:05:30.350 --> 00:05:34.310 want the paper copies. So what he had to do is 00:05:34.310 --> 00:05:39.230 he would sketch and then ink and then scan it 00:05:39.230 --> 00:05:42.029 into his computer to send it to the publisher. 00:05:42.509 --> 00:05:46.670 Well that blue colored pencil Yeah, when you 00:05:46.670 --> 00:05:51.089 scan it That blue never shows up on the paper 00:05:51.089 --> 00:05:55.069 So all that's left is the black ink that he put 00:05:55.069 --> 00:05:59.050 on the page That's cool And that's and then he 00:05:59.050 --> 00:06:01.269 could send that off and they could add the color 00:06:01.269 --> 00:06:03.189 and that kind of stuff to it from there for the 00:06:03.189 --> 00:06:05.589 publisher So that was kind of cool. And so he 00:06:05.589 --> 00:06:09.910 actually did one on his tablet like drew out 00:06:09.910 --> 00:06:14.839 the lunch lady and like wrote a note like, thank 00:06:14.839 --> 00:06:17.759 you, blue bonnet elementary, whatever. And then 00:06:17.759 --> 00:06:20.480 he saved that file and he sent it to the librarian 00:06:20.480 --> 00:06:22.379 so that she could send it out to like all the 00:06:22.379 --> 00:06:24.600 teachers and stuff. So they have that, which 00:06:24.600 --> 00:06:28.579 is pretty cool. Yeah. It was really cool. It 00:06:28.579 --> 00:06:31.319 was a pretty, it was a really great experience 00:06:31.319 --> 00:06:33.800 and he does a really good job of being a presenter 00:06:33.800 --> 00:06:37.459 and like. answering the kids' questions and doing 00:06:37.459 --> 00:06:40.060 that kind of stuff. It was a lot of fun and I 00:06:40.060 --> 00:06:42.439 went back and was like, I gotta see how many 00:06:42.439 --> 00:06:45.439 of his picture books we have in our library system 00:06:45.439 --> 00:06:47.339 so that I can order some of them and stuff like 00:06:47.339 --> 00:06:50.519 that because... That's cool. I'll have to look 00:06:50.519 --> 00:06:53.800 into that too. Yeah, because he's got like, I 00:06:53.800 --> 00:06:59.120 think it's called Punk Farm? Yeah, Punk Farm 00:06:59.120 --> 00:07:02.079 is one of them. And it's a children's book about 00:07:02.079 --> 00:07:04.740 a group of farm animals who form a secret punk 00:07:04.740 --> 00:07:07.720 rock band and play music after the farmer goes 00:07:07.720 --> 00:07:11.259 to bed, featuring a humorous take on Old MacDonald 00:07:11.259 --> 00:07:13.000 and stuff like that. Like, and that came out, 00:07:13.220 --> 00:07:15.579 that was his first, like one of his first books 00:07:15.579 --> 00:07:20.459 and it was 2005. That's cool. And so, yeah, different 00:07:20.459 --> 00:07:22.000 things like that. I was like, that's pretty awesome. 00:07:22.579 --> 00:07:27.459 That is. So, it was pretty cool. It was a good 00:07:27.459 --> 00:07:31.480 experience. I'm glad I... crashed and went to 00:07:31.480 --> 00:07:34.779 that presentation because it was a lot of fun. 00:07:35.360 --> 00:07:37.699 That's very cool. That sounds like a lot of fun. 00:07:38.399 --> 00:07:41.899 I'm glad you got to do that too. Yeah. Maybe 00:07:41.899 --> 00:08:05.980 we'll be able to do that for us soon. Hello, 00:08:06.019 --> 00:08:09.160 I'm Patrick Adams. And I'm Caroline Legere. 00:08:09.540 --> 00:08:12.620 And this is Librarians a Littles, a podcast where 00:08:12.620 --> 00:08:15.759 we discuss books and makerspace activities and 00:08:15.759 --> 00:08:19.160 give tips and tricks for working with our youngest 00:08:19.160 --> 00:08:23.819 learners in the library setting. Today, we are 00:08:23.819 --> 00:08:26.040 going to be sharing two books that come from 00:08:26.040 --> 00:08:30.620 the Texas 2x2 list. The Texas 2x2 list is a list 00:08:30.620 --> 00:08:35.190 of 20 titles that are cultivated every year by 00:08:35.190 --> 00:08:38.710 the Texas Library Association. These books are 00:08:38.710 --> 00:08:42.649 the best books of the year for students between 00:08:42.649 --> 00:08:47.149 the ages of two and second grade. The first book 00:08:47.149 --> 00:08:50.330 that we're going to look at is called Big Bike, 00:08:50.669 --> 00:08:54.909 Little Bike. It is written by Kelly Dubay Gillis 00:08:54.909 --> 00:08:59.370 and illustrated by Jacob Suva. It is published 00:08:59.370 --> 00:09:05.049 by Harper Collins in 2025. It is on the Texas 00:09:05.049 --> 00:09:08.710 2x2 list for 2026, and that is the only list 00:09:08.710 --> 00:09:12.350 or award that has been given to this book to 00:09:12.350 --> 00:09:17.649 date. A little bit about the author, Kelly Dubey 00:09:17.649 --> 00:09:20.870 Gillis. Kelly grew up in Bay City, Michigan. 00:09:21.669 --> 00:09:25.110 When she was old enough, she would ride her bike 00:09:25.110 --> 00:09:28.850 to the library. At the age of 10, she entered 00:09:28.850 --> 00:09:33.250 a Be an Author contest at the library and won. 00:09:33.870 --> 00:09:35.809 She decided that she wanted to be an author after 00:09:35.809 --> 00:09:38.529 that. Between then and now, she had a variety 00:09:38.529 --> 00:09:43.529 of jobs, but she has spent over the past 10 years 00:09:43.529 --> 00:09:46.809 as a member of the Society of Children's Book 00:09:46.809 --> 00:09:49.769 Writers and Illustrators, learning how to write 00:09:49.769 --> 00:09:52.769 books for young readers. She now lives outside 00:09:52.769 --> 00:09:56.429 of Cleveland, Ohio with her family. and she continues 00:09:56.429 --> 00:10:01.649 to visit the library often. Some of her other 00:10:01.649 --> 00:10:06.129 books, she's only got one other. It is If You 00:10:06.129 --> 00:10:09.950 Find a Fawn, a What to Do for Wild Wanderers 00:10:09.950 --> 00:10:15.190 book. It is illustrated by Waza Pink, which I 00:10:15.190 --> 00:10:17.470 need to look into that because that's an interesting 00:10:17.470 --> 00:10:19.029 name and I want to find out what other kinds 00:10:19.029 --> 00:10:22.070 of books that person has illustrated. It is, 00:10:22.370 --> 00:10:27.460 yeah. I'm also intrigued. And the illustrator 00:10:27.460 --> 00:10:30.440 for this book is Jacob Suva, and he is an illustrator 00:10:30.440 --> 00:10:33.879 of picture books living in upstate New York with 00:10:33.879 --> 00:10:37.639 his family of two sons, one dog named Ruby, one 00:10:37.639 --> 00:10:40.899 cat with a sneezing problem, and one turtle named 00:10:40.899 --> 00:10:45.480 Michelangelo. That's fun. He used to think his 00:10:45.480 --> 00:10:49.019 imagination and creativity was a curse, but now 00:10:49.019 --> 00:10:52.039 he sees them as the bits that make up great stories. 00:10:52.409 --> 00:10:56.809 That's nice. I like it. Yeah. And some of the 00:10:56.809 --> 00:11:02.009 other books that he has illustrated are Butterflies 00:11:02.009 --> 00:11:06.129 Are Pretty Gross by Rosemary Mosco. Where Does 00:11:06.129 --> 00:11:12.250 a Pirate Go Potty by Don Babprovich. Oh dear. 00:11:12.789 --> 00:11:16.950 Pachovnik. There we go. Where Does a Cowgirl 00:11:16.950 --> 00:11:21.179 Go Potty by Don Babprovich. Hide and Seek Ladybugs 00:11:21.179 --> 00:11:24.299 by Paul Wright. Why is for Yet a Growth Mindset 00:11:24.299 --> 00:11:28.860 Alphabet by Shannon Anderson. Pedro's Pan. A 00:11:28.860 --> 00:11:31.620 Gold Rush Story by Matthew Laisley. Flowers Are 00:11:31.620 --> 00:11:36.419 Pretty Weird by Rosemary Mosco. The Bear Stylist 00:11:36.419 --> 00:11:38.500 by Stephen Butler. The Girl with the Big Big 00:11:38.500 --> 00:11:41.980 Questions by Brittany Nguyen Le. And The Kid 00:11:41.980 --> 00:11:45.419 with Big Big Ideas, also by Brittany Nguyen Le. 00:11:45.659 --> 00:11:48.059 And there's one more! The Boy with the Big Big 00:11:48.059 --> 00:11:54.289 Feelings. Bye! Brittany Wyn Lee yeah and so the 00:11:54.289 --> 00:11:58.110 summary for this book is a bike is found by different 00:11:58.110 --> 00:12:01.009 characters some being animals some being humans 00:12:01.009 --> 00:12:05.070 and it is described as many things being big 00:12:05.070 --> 00:12:09.980 small fast slow dirty clean old and new Each 00:12:09.980 --> 00:12:13.019 character sees the bike differently based on 00:12:13.019 --> 00:12:16.480 their ability, their environment, their attitudes 00:12:16.480 --> 00:12:21.399 and perspectives. The bike is used by many characters 00:12:21.399 --> 00:12:26.220 and is recycled over many times. And so this 00:12:26.220 --> 00:12:33.700 is just a really cute story that uses some alliteration 00:12:33.700 --> 00:12:38.139 and just some repetition of sounds and words. 00:12:38.730 --> 00:12:42.230 And I think that this is going to be a really 00:12:42.230 --> 00:12:44.730 great book to use with my pre -K students. I 00:12:44.730 --> 00:12:47.809 haven't used this book with them yet, but I think 00:12:47.809 --> 00:12:49.909 I can see this being one that they're going to 00:12:49.909 --> 00:12:53.809 enjoy. I really love that the characters in it 00:12:53.809 --> 00:12:58.389 are kind of those archetypal characters. So like 00:12:58.389 --> 00:13:04.289 when the cheetah that runs by sees the bike and 00:13:04.289 --> 00:13:07.379 jumps on it, it's the bike is going up a hill 00:13:07.379 --> 00:13:11.620 and so he describes it as being slow and so like 00:13:11.620 --> 00:13:13.759 doesn't surprise you that like the cheetah wants 00:13:13.759 --> 00:13:15.980 to move faster kind of thing and so he gets off 00:13:15.980 --> 00:13:18.659 the bike and then the turtle is the one that 00:13:18.659 --> 00:13:21.340 finds it at the top of the hill and gets on it 00:13:21.340 --> 00:13:24.580 and as he's going down the hill it's too fast 00:13:24.580 --> 00:13:26.759 kind of thing you know and so he gets off of 00:13:26.759 --> 00:13:29.980 it that and so like there's some silliness and 00:13:29.980 --> 00:13:33.179 that goes along with that but there's also like 00:13:33.179 --> 00:13:38.179 this that it's being used and reused by so many 00:13:38.179 --> 00:13:43.379 characters it gets muddy it gets cleaned up it 00:13:43.379 --> 00:13:47.730 gets dumped, it gets picked up and redone and 00:13:47.730 --> 00:13:51.889 remade and reused by people and it goes from 00:13:51.889 --> 00:13:55.009 being old to being new again and back and forth 00:13:55.009 --> 00:13:58.789 and it's just a really cute story that I think 00:13:58.789 --> 00:14:01.529 our students will really love. I think the illustrations 00:14:01.529 --> 00:14:05.509 in it are really pretty great. They're not super 00:14:05.509 --> 00:14:07.970 overwhelming. There's a lot of white space in 00:14:07.970 --> 00:14:12.519 the pictures, but they are pretty amazing and 00:14:12.519 --> 00:14:14.679 I think just overall this is going to be a really 00:14:14.679 --> 00:14:16.259 good book that a lot of our students are going 00:14:16.259 --> 00:14:22.100 to enjoy. Yeah I like this one a lot too and 00:14:22.100 --> 00:14:27.240 I like that it's kind of it the text is somewhat 00:14:27.240 --> 00:14:29.500 simplistic but I think it's kind of in a good 00:14:29.500 --> 00:14:31.840 way where it just it makes it more accessible 00:14:31.840 --> 00:14:35.960 for our youngest readers of all, like toddlers 00:14:35.960 --> 00:14:38.139 and, you know, three and four year olds. But 00:14:38.139 --> 00:14:41.559 then it also, because it's all kind of centered 00:14:41.559 --> 00:14:45.480 around the same bike, it's, and the bike can 00:14:45.480 --> 00:14:47.820 be different things to the different characters, 00:14:48.460 --> 00:14:53.340 and it kind of helps older kids even kind of 00:14:53.340 --> 00:14:56.919 promote discussion of you know, the same bike 00:14:56.919 --> 00:14:59.620 can be a different thing to a different person. 00:14:59.899 --> 00:15:02.059 You know, what's right for you isn't necessarily 00:15:02.059 --> 00:15:05.320 right for me. So you could discuss like, and 00:15:05.320 --> 00:15:07.019 it's not always right for every person all the 00:15:07.019 --> 00:15:10.700 time. So you could discuss, you know, different 00:15:10.700 --> 00:15:13.960 perspectives and go at it from that angle, or 00:15:13.960 --> 00:15:16.019 you could do it with like an Earth Day lesson 00:15:16.019 --> 00:15:19.539 even, and talk about a lot of recycling and reusing 00:15:19.539 --> 00:15:23.539 things. This was a really really great book. 00:15:23.799 --> 00:15:25.960 It's just I love that it's you know as far as 00:15:25.960 --> 00:15:30.179 like the text at first glance it is you know 00:15:30.179 --> 00:15:33.899 very it appears more simplistic but then you 00:15:33.899 --> 00:15:37.759 can go deeper if you choose to and you can have 00:15:37.759 --> 00:15:40.860 a lot of discussion with it. It's really up to 00:15:40.860 --> 00:15:43.059 you and how far you want to go with it so it 00:15:43.059 --> 00:15:47.659 was a really really great book. Yeah I liked 00:15:47.659 --> 00:15:49.799 it a lot I was surprised because when I first 00:15:49.799 --> 00:15:51.960 looked at it I was like oh this is kind of this 00:15:51.960 --> 00:15:53.700 must this must be one of the books that's for 00:15:53.700 --> 00:15:56.059 like the two -year -old kind of age range of 00:15:56.059 --> 00:15:59.000 the this series but as i was like looking at 00:15:59.000 --> 00:16:02.259 it i was like oh this is actually just a really 00:16:02.259 --> 00:16:05.679 good well -written story that and one thing that 00:16:05.679 --> 00:16:08.179 popped out to me which will bring us into the 00:16:08.179 --> 00:16:10.899 makerspace activity is like all of the adjectives 00:16:10.899 --> 00:16:13.440 that are being used throughout the book to describe 00:16:13.440 --> 00:16:16.559 the bike and so like i said that's a perfect 00:16:16.559 --> 00:16:20.139 segue because my makerspace connection for this 00:16:20.460 --> 00:16:25.820 I would make some little cards with different 00:16:25.820 --> 00:16:29.639 adjectives on them and then kind of shuffle them 00:16:29.639 --> 00:16:31.860 up and randomly give them out to the students 00:16:31.860 --> 00:16:35.340 with an adjective and I would pull out the Legos 00:16:35.340 --> 00:16:40.320 and have the kids build a bike out of Legos or 00:16:40.320 --> 00:16:43.000 it doesn't have to be a bike I might just say 00:16:43.000 --> 00:16:46.110 a Means of travel so they could build a car they 00:16:46.110 --> 00:16:48.350 could build a skateboard they could build a bike 00:16:48.350 --> 00:16:50.269 or a scooter whatever they want to build but 00:16:50.269 --> 00:16:54.809 it has to Be able to be described using the adjective 00:16:54.809 --> 00:16:58.450 that they get on the card So if they get a slow 00:16:58.450 --> 00:17:01.029 if the card that they get says slow then they 00:17:01.029 --> 00:17:03.470 have to whatever they build it has to be slow 00:17:03.470 --> 00:17:07.000 or if they get like a big then they have to they 00:17:07.000 --> 00:17:10.500 have to build something big or small or and use 00:17:10.500 --> 00:17:12.759 those adjectives and do it kind of as like a 00:17:12.759 --> 00:17:14.740 connection to the adjectives the way the bike 00:17:14.740 --> 00:17:17.380 is being described using describing words our 00:17:17.380 --> 00:17:20.279 adjectives you are giving you we're giving you 00:17:20.279 --> 00:17:22.319 the describing word now you have to make something 00:17:22.319 --> 00:17:25.200 that fits that and see what they can come up 00:17:25.200 --> 00:17:27.279 with for that kind of doing like a little bit 00:17:27.279 --> 00:17:30.799 of a an english lesson introducing adjectives 00:17:30.799 --> 00:17:35.440 and describing words that way yeah so i think 00:17:35.440 --> 00:17:39.859 that would be a fun activity and even by restricting 00:17:39.859 --> 00:17:42.240 the kids by giving them just a random adjective 00:17:42.240 --> 00:17:45.920 I think their creativity would come up with a 00:17:45.920 --> 00:17:49.619 lot of unique ideas. I think it'd be a lot of 00:17:49.619 --> 00:17:51.759 fun to see what they came up with when you say 00:17:51.759 --> 00:17:55.500 hey whatever you make it has to be this. I like 00:17:55.500 --> 00:17:58.980 that it still gives them a lot of independence 00:17:58.980 --> 00:18:03.119 and creative control but then they have to think 00:18:03.119 --> 00:18:06.369 of it in a different way with those that stipulation 00:18:06.369 --> 00:18:08.509 there. That's a great idea. I wouldn't have come 00:18:08.509 --> 00:18:11.009 up with that. I like it. Yeah, I like it just 00:18:11.009 --> 00:18:13.269 because it's different. It's not like I like 00:18:13.269 --> 00:18:16.349 to kind of surprise the kids sometimes with something 00:18:16.349 --> 00:18:19.109 and just be like, here's a random rule that you 00:18:19.109 --> 00:18:22.069 have to follow and just see what happens. And 00:18:22.069 --> 00:18:24.890 so I think that would be pretty fun. That's very 00:18:24.890 --> 00:18:30.990 cool. Good plan. Yeah. All right, so for our 00:18:30.990 --> 00:18:33.750 Library of Littles Makerspace Spotlight this 00:18:33.750 --> 00:18:36.430 week, we've been talking a lot about tech stuff 00:18:36.430 --> 00:18:38.470 like robots and stuff like that. I figured we'd 00:18:38.470 --> 00:18:42.089 go low -key, low -tech this time and discuss 00:18:42.089 --> 00:18:45.170 Kiva Planks because this is something that I 00:18:45.170 --> 00:18:48.609 always have out in my library as part of my Makerspace. 00:18:49.109 --> 00:18:51.710 They are a lot of fun. My students really enjoy 00:18:51.710 --> 00:18:54.259 them. And so I think everybody should have them. 00:18:54.400 --> 00:18:57.160 Kiva planks are uniform precision cut wooden 00:18:57.160 --> 00:19:00.380 building blocks that rely entirely on gravity 00:19:00.380 --> 00:19:04.019 and balance rather than glue or connectors. They're 00:19:04.019 --> 00:19:08.259 designed for ages five and up and they are a 00:19:08.259 --> 00:19:11.380 staple in STEM education for teaching principles 00:19:11.380 --> 00:19:14.539 of physics, engineering, and architecture. The 00:19:14.539 --> 00:19:19.339 website is pretty cool. They've got a ton of 00:19:19.339 --> 00:19:24.569 free materials. Like they've got free grant writing 00:19:24.569 --> 00:19:27.930 packets, they've got free educator guides, they've 00:19:27.930 --> 00:19:33.789 got free lesson plans. They have a free 40 plank 00:19:33.789 --> 00:19:37.789 building ideas PDF. They have free hands -on 00:19:37.789 --> 00:19:42.089 learning grids and free posters and all these 00:19:42.089 --> 00:19:44.089 things on their website that you can get for 00:19:44.089 --> 00:19:47.509 them and so like yeah they've got a ton of resources 00:19:47.509 --> 00:19:49.970 they will be happy to give you like all of these 00:19:49.970 --> 00:19:53.750 resources if you have the materials so it's not 00:19:53.750 --> 00:19:55.670 something that you have to come up with your 00:19:55.670 --> 00:19:59.190 own ideas for you can and often i do but it's 00:19:59.190 --> 00:20:02.190 nice to have some of those things back up like 00:20:02.190 --> 00:20:05.089 for like if you have a sub and you need to have 00:20:05.089 --> 00:20:08.569 a quick lesson you can look and see what they've 00:20:08.569 --> 00:20:11.119 got available on their website See what kind 00:20:11.119 --> 00:20:14.000 of activities they have that you can use with 00:20:14.000 --> 00:20:18.500 these materials and honestly These kids the kids 00:20:18.500 --> 00:20:22.079 my students love using the Kiva planks there 00:20:22.079 --> 00:20:24.099 are days when I give them a challenge and other 00:20:24.099 --> 00:20:26.099 days where they just get to build whatever they 00:20:26.099 --> 00:20:29.920 want with them and There's always kids at the 00:20:29.920 --> 00:20:35.099 tables building with them if it's a like a free 00:20:35.099 --> 00:20:39.180 build they love to try and see how like how big 00:20:39.180 --> 00:20:42.579 of a tower they can build or they like to use 00:20:42.579 --> 00:20:46.359 them like dominoes just to see how it they topple 00:20:46.359 --> 00:20:49.420 over but like i've given them challenges where 00:20:49.420 --> 00:20:54.059 they have to build specific things like playground 00:20:54.059 --> 00:20:58.140 equipment or design a park and they can use the 00:20:58.140 --> 00:21:00.740 wooden planks to do all of that as well or build 00:21:00.740 --> 00:21:03.279 homes or build houses and other buildings and 00:21:03.279 --> 00:21:06.390 all sorts of stuff and truly they get pretty 00:21:06.390 --> 00:21:09.309 creative with it and I love the kiva planks because 00:21:09.309 --> 00:21:12.690 they are just wooden planks and so yeah it says 00:21:12.690 --> 00:21:15.769 they're for five but younger kids can use them 00:21:15.769 --> 00:21:19.089 and older kids I have my fifth graders use them 00:21:19.089 --> 00:21:22.329 all the time too because like I'll have my fifth 00:21:22.329 --> 00:21:26.250 graders try and build like a roller coaster track 00:21:26.250 --> 00:21:30.170 using the kiva planks and they have to build 00:21:30.170 --> 00:21:33.720 a track like where they build the track that 00:21:33.720 --> 00:21:37.000 starts high and slowly moves low but with like 00:21:37.000 --> 00:21:39.319 bumps and hills and stuff like that along the 00:21:39.319 --> 00:21:43.900 way and then you can get with the sets they have 00:21:43.900 --> 00:21:46.640 kiva balls which are really just they're ping 00:21:46.640 --> 00:21:48.779 pong balls with the kiva name on them but you 00:21:48.779 --> 00:21:50.400 could just have ping pong balls give them a ping 00:21:50.400 --> 00:21:52.339 pong ball and use it on the track and see what 00:21:52.339 --> 00:21:54.819 happens with it and that kind of thing so like 00:21:54.819 --> 00:21:57.940 the age range and what you can have the kids 00:21:57.940 --> 00:22:04.259 do with them is so widespreading that it's really 00:22:04.259 --> 00:22:11.900 not a bad tool to use for for any age group really 00:22:11.900 --> 00:22:15.440 and the really cool thing is they're not like 00:22:15.440 --> 00:22:20.480 crazy expensive for 400 for 400 planks it costs 00:22:20.480 --> 00:22:24.759 about $200 okay but you could get like a they 00:22:24.759 --> 00:22:28.059 have an architecture set which has a hundred 00:22:28.059 --> 00:22:30.839 planks and it's only 75 bucks kind of thing so 00:22:30.839 --> 00:22:34.720 they're definitely depending on how many pieces 00:22:34.720 --> 00:22:39.940 you want in the set and like what you're looking 00:22:39.940 --> 00:22:45.519 to use them for. Cause you can go as high as 00:22:45.519 --> 00:22:50.819 like, I think we have in my campus, my makerspace 00:22:50.819 --> 00:22:55.119 teacher has one of the big wooden storage bins 00:22:55.119 --> 00:22:59.140 and there are a thousand. planks a thousand of 00:22:59.140 --> 00:23:01.940 the kiva planks in that and that's five hundred 00:23:01.940 --> 00:23:06.599 dollars you know um i don't think i think i have 00:23:06.599 --> 00:23:09.319 um in the library i think i'm closer to like 00:23:09.319 --> 00:23:14.680 the 400 piece set probably not even that i probably 00:23:14.680 --> 00:23:17.859 only have i probably have like 200 pieces but 00:23:17.859 --> 00:23:20.700 you know like there's so many different ways 00:23:20.700 --> 00:23:23.599 these can be used and the price range is reasonable 00:23:23.599 --> 00:23:28.789 for them and like i said When you like that just 00:23:28.789 --> 00:23:31.630 having all of those free resources that are available 00:23:31.630 --> 00:23:35.809 with these To help you if you're not sure what 00:23:35.809 --> 00:23:42.069 you want to use them for different ideas Yeah 00:23:42.069 --> 00:23:46.829 So they've got so many you just on their website 00:23:46.829 --> 00:23:51.470 Across the top. There's an educator form and 00:23:51.470 --> 00:23:55.220 so it's good like for classroom use and that 00:23:55.220 --> 00:23:56.680 kind of thing. And they've got all these different 00:23:56.680 --> 00:24:03.859 ideas and yeah, there's so many cool things that 00:24:03.859 --> 00:24:07.539 they have available. Oh, and if you go to the 00:24:07.539 --> 00:24:10.940 shop under additional products, they literally, 00:24:11.119 --> 00:24:13.579 it's a tab that's just free resources and it's 00:24:13.579 --> 00:24:18.559 all the different free PDFs that you can get. 00:24:18.880 --> 00:24:21.519 Nice. I'm gonna have to check that out later. 00:24:22.000 --> 00:24:23.799 So yeah they've got a lot of cool stuff because 00:24:23.799 --> 00:24:28.599 they've got space planning tips and hands -on 00:24:28.599 --> 00:24:32.480 learning grid PDFs and all sorts of stuff. Yeah. 00:24:33.599 --> 00:24:36.559 I think one of my favorite ones is there's a 00:24:36.559 --> 00:24:39.380 Kiva planks instruction booklet with just like 00:24:39.380 --> 00:24:41.960 with different things that with 40 planks what 00:24:41.960 --> 00:24:46.470 you can have kids build. So you could give like, 00:24:46.549 --> 00:24:49.650 yeah, there's 10 complete lesson plans in that 00:24:49.650 --> 00:24:52.990 one alone. That one's aimed for grades three 00:24:52.990 --> 00:24:56.450 to eight, but a lot of these things you can adjust 00:24:56.450 --> 00:25:01.349 and change to do different things. That's cool. 00:25:01.349 --> 00:25:04.750 It's a lot of fun. A lot of fun. And a lot of 00:25:04.750 --> 00:25:07.390 my students really enjoy building with them. 00:25:07.670 --> 00:25:10.589 And like I said, even just, it teaches a lot 00:25:10.589 --> 00:25:15.529 of cool things too, because. Yeah. Kids they 00:25:15.529 --> 00:25:17.990 kind of explore how they can make it so that 00:25:17.990 --> 00:25:21.150 because that they're all the same length and 00:25:21.150 --> 00:25:25.049 so trying to Build longer creations or taller 00:25:25.049 --> 00:25:27.569 creations. They have to start getting creative 00:25:27.569 --> 00:25:31.509 with how they put the planks together And so 00:25:31.509 --> 00:25:33.630 it's a lot of fun and there's a lot of like learning 00:25:33.630 --> 00:25:36.410 and a lot of problem -solving that they bring 00:25:36.410 --> 00:25:39.559 up and then with the older kids, you can get 00:25:39.559 --> 00:25:42.279 into discussions about like structural integrity 00:25:42.279 --> 00:25:46.559 and that kind of stuff too. It's a really, it's 00:25:46.559 --> 00:25:52.160 a really cool, simple concept, but a really amazing 00:25:52.160 --> 00:25:56.299 tool to use in the classroom. Yeah. I've had, 00:25:56.579 --> 00:25:59.059 I don't have any Kiva planks currently. I don't 00:25:59.059 --> 00:26:01.380 have much makerspace stuff at all currently. 00:26:01.500 --> 00:26:05.900 I'm working on that. Um, but I have had them 00:26:05.900 --> 00:26:09.079 in the past. and they're always a really big 00:26:09.079 --> 00:26:14.200 hit. They look a lot like Jenga pieces, really. 00:26:15.599 --> 00:26:18.539 And they're designed slightly differently, but 00:26:18.539 --> 00:26:22.000 not much at all. But they really are like, they 00:26:22.000 --> 00:26:24.859 are kind of a simple tool, but they're very effective. 00:26:25.619 --> 00:26:29.220 And I think because they're all pretty much the 00:26:29.220 --> 00:26:32.099 same size, I think that's a benefit of them. 00:26:32.759 --> 00:26:34.960 because it kind of forces the kids to be a little 00:26:34.960 --> 00:26:36.579 bit more creative and they kind of know what 00:26:36.579 --> 00:26:38.779 they're working with. There's no like, I feel 00:26:38.779 --> 00:26:40.420 like when they start building with other things 00:26:40.420 --> 00:26:43.500 that have different shapes. I mean, there's benefits 00:26:43.500 --> 00:26:46.440 to that too, obviously, but they'll go, oh, I 00:26:46.440 --> 00:26:48.579 wish I had this extra piece and I don't have 00:26:48.579 --> 00:26:51.299 it. And like this one, they don't really get 00:26:51.299 --> 00:26:54.519 frustrated like that. Like they have to recognize 00:26:54.519 --> 00:26:56.519 right away. This is what you're working with. 00:26:57.019 --> 00:27:00.019 These, this is your. These are what your constraints 00:27:00.019 --> 00:27:03.180 are. And I think that's kind of good for them. 00:27:03.859 --> 00:27:06.420 So they're a really great tool. They're always 00:27:06.420 --> 00:27:09.759 super popular. Like you said, it's simple, but 00:27:09.759 --> 00:27:15.759 effective. It's great. So the next book that 00:27:15.759 --> 00:27:20.279 we're going to talk about today is Cranky Krabby 00:27:20.279 --> 00:27:24.119 Crow Saves the World. It is written and illustrated 00:27:24.119 --> 00:27:27.559 by Corey Taber and it's published by Green Willow 00:27:27.559 --> 00:27:29.740 Books, which is an imprint of Harper Collins 00:27:29.740 --> 00:27:34.380 Publishers in 2025. The only reading list that 00:27:34.380 --> 00:27:38.539 this one is on is the Texas 2x2, but it did win 00:27:38.539 --> 00:27:41.819 a couple of other awards this last year. It is 00:27:41.819 --> 00:27:47.299 an ALSC notable children's book. It got the CCBC 00:27:47.299 --> 00:27:50.759 Choices Libby Picture Book Award finalist. I 00:27:50.759 --> 00:27:53.779 didn't know Libby was giving awards. That's new. 00:27:53.779 --> 00:27:56.859 That was news to me. That started in 2024. Looked 00:27:56.859 --> 00:28:01.200 that up. This was a publisher's weekly best book, 00:28:01.539 --> 00:28:05.099 a junior library guild selection, and school 00:28:05.099 --> 00:28:11.759 library journal best book of the year. So yeah, 00:28:11.819 --> 00:28:14.680 a lot going on for this book. Like all of his 00:28:14.680 --> 00:28:17.019 books I feel like. All of them I feel like are 00:28:17.019 --> 00:28:20.759 just gonna win the awards because that's what 00:28:20.759 --> 00:28:28.009 he does. Yeah, and Corey Tabor is just an amazing 00:28:28.009 --> 00:28:30.289 author and illustrator overall. So it's not a 00:28:30.289 --> 00:28:33.410 surprise that he's on all these lists and awards 00:28:33.410 --> 00:28:35.789 and everything because his books are always so 00:28:35.789 --> 00:28:38.950 amazing. They are. They're pretty great. Yeah, 00:28:39.490 --> 00:28:43.509 so Corey Tabor is an author and illustrator of 00:28:43.509 --> 00:28:47.230 children's books. He won a Caldecott honor for 00:28:47.230 --> 00:28:51.470 Melfell and he has won the Geisel three times. 00:28:51.849 --> 00:28:55.650 for the books Fox has a Problem, Fox at Night, 00:28:56.210 --> 00:28:59.630 and Fox the Tiger. He currently lives in Tacoma, 00:28:59.630 --> 00:29:05.490 Washington with his wife and son. And some of 00:29:05.490 --> 00:29:08.210 the other books that he's written are, he's expanding 00:29:08.210 --> 00:29:11.630 the Fox series. There's Fox versus Fox, Fox the 00:29:11.630 --> 00:29:14.269 Tiger, Fox at Night, Fox has a Problem, Fox versus 00:29:14.269 --> 00:29:19.170 Winter, Fox is Late, Fox and the Bike Ride, and 00:29:19.170 --> 00:29:22.190 Fox and the Jumping Contest. That's a lot of 00:29:22.190 --> 00:29:25.609 Fox books, but those are fabulous and those are 00:29:25.609 --> 00:29:28.549 always checked out at my school. Some of the 00:29:28.549 --> 00:29:30.470 other books that he's done are Simon and the 00:29:30.470 --> 00:29:34.869 Better Bone, Sir Ladybug and the Bookworms, Sir 00:29:34.869 --> 00:29:39.150 Ladybug and the Queen Bee, Melfell, Ursula Upside 00:29:39.150 --> 00:29:44.170 Down, and Snail Crossing. And in this particular 00:29:44.170 --> 00:29:48.859 book, A lone crow sits on a telephone wire when 00:29:48.859 --> 00:29:50.680 a squirrel approaches him and invites him to 00:29:50.680 --> 00:29:52.619 have fun by throwing garbage into the street 00:29:52.619 --> 00:29:56.119 below. Crow's reaction is to caw at him until 00:29:56.119 --> 00:30:00.420 he goes away. Then Crow is approached by a hummingbird, 00:30:00.680 --> 00:30:03.980 a rat, a bat, and a cat, and with all of them, 00:30:04.160 --> 00:30:08.039 Crow caws at them until they leave. Once they're 00:30:08.039 --> 00:30:11.339 all gone, the telephone on the telephone pole 00:30:11.339 --> 00:30:14.940 rings and the voice on the other end asks, Secret 00:30:14.940 --> 00:30:18.359 Agent Crow if he has cleared the area. Crow then 00:30:18.359 --> 00:30:21.279 gets down in the secret elevator in the telephone 00:30:21.279 --> 00:30:25.039 pole where he goes to a rocket which launches 00:30:25.039 --> 00:30:28.099 him into space and destroys the meteor that was 00:30:28.099 --> 00:30:33.059 heading toward Earth with lasers. After he completes 00:30:33.059 --> 00:30:36.480 his mission, Crow goes back to his telephone 00:30:36.480 --> 00:30:39.799 wire and invites all of the characters that he 00:30:39.799 --> 00:30:43.299 so offended before to watch the meteor shower 00:30:43.299 --> 00:30:47.769 with him. Like all of Corey Tabor's books like 00:30:47.769 --> 00:30:51.470 this one was just really Great really clever 00:30:51.470 --> 00:30:55.630 a love that it starts off with just a rude crow 00:30:55.630 --> 00:30:58.089 It was kind of it starts off kind of predictably 00:30:58.089 --> 00:31:01.349 with you know all the characters coming up one 00:31:01.349 --> 00:31:03.789 at a time asking crow to do different things 00:31:03.789 --> 00:31:06.789 with them and He just caused at them kind of 00:31:06.789 --> 00:31:09.829 simply until they all go away But I love that 00:31:09.829 --> 00:31:11.809 he has a secret mission over there like that 00:31:11.809 --> 00:31:15.789 was just an unexplained unexpected plot twist 00:31:15.789 --> 00:31:17.809 that i don't think any of the kids are going 00:31:17.809 --> 00:31:21.009 to see coming i sure didn't see it coming actually 00:31:21.009 --> 00:31:23.289 i love that he goes into space and saves the 00:31:23.289 --> 00:31:25.289 world and then he's like kind to everyone when 00:31:25.289 --> 00:31:27.529 he comes back and is like hey let's all hang 00:31:27.529 --> 00:31:30.910 out together and then at the very end like at 00:31:30.910 --> 00:31:34.289 the on the very last page there's a very small 00:31:34.289 --> 00:31:36.690 little secret code with some symbols for kids 00:31:36.690 --> 00:31:40.009 to decode and I don't remember what it said. 00:31:40.190 --> 00:31:42.609 I decoded it and I forgot what it was, but that 00:31:42.609 --> 00:31:45.509 was a fun little addition there where it was 00:31:45.509 --> 00:31:48.210 like you could talk about secret agents and secret 00:31:48.210 --> 00:31:51.569 codes and stuff and like do it with older kids 00:31:51.569 --> 00:31:55.289 and like, you know, create a secret code of some 00:31:55.289 --> 00:31:58.490 kind for them too. Like it was just, it was great. 00:31:58.670 --> 00:32:01.809 It was a great book. It's a five out of five 00:32:01.809 --> 00:32:05.670 for sure. It's a good one. Highly recommended. 00:32:06.359 --> 00:32:08.640 I really enjoyed this story because like you 00:32:08.640 --> 00:32:11.660 said at first it's very predictable and then 00:32:11.660 --> 00:32:14.440 all of a sudden it goes on a tangent that was 00:32:14.440 --> 00:32:18.299 not at all expected and so I really enjoyed being 00:32:18.299 --> 00:32:21.079 surprised by a picture book like just because 00:32:21.079 --> 00:32:23.000 that is not at all where I thought that story 00:32:23.000 --> 00:32:26.180 was going and so like I knew it was called like 00:32:26.180 --> 00:32:29.339 that he saves the world but I was like how is 00:32:29.339 --> 00:32:31.849 this like because he's just being I didn't think 00:32:31.849 --> 00:32:33.950 he was gonna literally save the world. Yeah. 00:32:34.009 --> 00:32:36.430 I'm not sure what I thought was gonna happen, 00:32:36.529 --> 00:32:39.730 but it wasn't that. And so like, I was like, 00:32:39.829 --> 00:32:42.049 okay, it's just a cranky crab calling at everybody 00:32:42.049 --> 00:32:44.269 getting them to leave him alone kind of thing. 00:32:45.390 --> 00:32:48.190 And so like, I like, and I should have known 00:32:48.190 --> 00:32:50.930 something was gonna happen when it has that saves 00:32:50.930 --> 00:32:54.490 the world portion in in parentheses, but like, 00:32:54.849 --> 00:32:57.960 it was just so routine and so predictable and 00:32:57.960 --> 00:33:01.039 then all of a sudden it was not anymore. And 00:33:01.039 --> 00:33:03.920 so it was fun. It was a lot of fun. I think the 00:33:03.920 --> 00:33:06.799 kids are definitely gonna enjoy this book and 00:33:06.799 --> 00:33:08.400 this will be one that they want to read again 00:33:08.400 --> 00:33:11.640 and again. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely five out of 00:33:11.640 --> 00:33:16.759 five. Yeah, it was great. Good one. Yeah, and 00:33:16.759 --> 00:33:19.359 I like that you can talk about like at the beginning 00:33:19.359 --> 00:33:23.039 if you want to make an SEL connection you totally 00:33:23.039 --> 00:33:25.380 could with like talking about kindness and like 00:33:25.380 --> 00:33:28.319 other people's perspectives and yeah he was rude 00:33:28.319 --> 00:33:33.299 it's true but he had a good reason to be and 00:33:33.299 --> 00:33:36.339 you know he's actually saving everybody and you 00:33:36.339 --> 00:33:38.559 know if you want to you could even go deeper 00:33:38.559 --> 00:33:40.759 with that and be like you know what sometimes 00:33:40.759 --> 00:33:44.279 people are rude in general and sometimes they're 00:33:44.279 --> 00:33:45.940 just having a bad day and you don't know what 00:33:45.940 --> 00:33:48.660 their reasons are And yeah, they're probably 00:33:48.660 --> 00:33:50.559 not really secret agents trying to clear the 00:33:50.559 --> 00:33:53.720 world, clear the area so that they can go save 00:33:53.720 --> 00:33:58.220 the world, but like, they might, you know, have 00:33:58.220 --> 00:34:00.500 other things going on in their lives that's where 00:34:00.500 --> 00:34:03.740 it's not necessarily about you. Like, you don't 00:34:03.740 --> 00:34:06.900 know if they're being rude for other reasons 00:34:06.900 --> 00:34:09.019 and maybe you just give them some space and let 00:34:09.019 --> 00:34:11.280 them come around. Like, you don't have to be 00:34:11.280 --> 00:34:13.239 rude back. You could talk to them about that 00:34:13.239 --> 00:34:15.630 and things like that. and just make some social 00:34:15.630 --> 00:34:19.389 emotional connections that way. Yeah, it's a 00:34:19.389 --> 00:34:24.989 great book. And I think for a makerspace activity 00:34:24.989 --> 00:34:28.010 for this one with younger kids, I think we would 00:34:28.010 --> 00:34:31.829 build rockets with either magnetiles or Legos 00:34:31.829 --> 00:34:34.829 and build a nice little rocket for Crow to go 00:34:34.829 --> 00:34:37.849 save the world in because obviously he can't 00:34:37.849 --> 00:34:41.150 do that if he doesn't have a rocket. So we got 00:34:41.150 --> 00:34:45.510 to help him out. Absolutely. I think that, I 00:34:45.510 --> 00:34:47.869 think the kids would love doing that too. That'll 00:34:47.869 --> 00:34:53.730 be so much fun. Yeah. Very cool. Well, thank 00:34:53.730 --> 00:34:56.150 you all for joining us today on this episode 00:34:56.150 --> 00:34:58.230 of Librarians of Littles and we hope you found 00:34:58.230 --> 00:35:00.989 some new ideas for inspiring our young readers. 00:35:01.550 --> 00:35:04.090 Be sure to subscribe and connect with us on social 00:35:04.090 --> 00:35:06.610 media. Happy reading! Thank you for listening 00:35:06.610 --> 00:35:09.829 to this episode of Librarians of Littles. We 00:35:09.829 --> 00:35:12.170 hope that you've enjoyed it. Check back each 00:35:12.170 --> 00:35:16.340 Wednesday for a new episode. Librarians of Littles 00:35:16.340 --> 00:35:19.320 is a podcast produced and hosted by Patrick Adams 00:35:19.320 --> 00:35:23.519 and Caroline Legere. Editor, Patrick Adams. 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I 00:36:08.860 --> 00:36:11.699 did I also missed the region 11 conference because 00:36:11.699 --> 00:36:15.739 of book fair like yeah it was bad timing i i 00:36:15.739 --> 00:36:18.199 don't know i'm going to be planning my did you 00:36:18.199 --> 00:36:23.059 fix your fall book fair date so that it doesn't 00:36:23.059 --> 00:36:26.380 impact that again not yet because i don't have 00:36:26.380 --> 00:36:29.139 anything i don't i don't know when to plan it 00:36:29.139 --> 00:36:32.039 for next year i was gonna talk with my principal 00:36:32.039 --> 00:36:34.800 about that like in june talk to yeah talk to 00:36:34.800 --> 00:36:36.719 your principal at it here's what i'll tell you 00:36:36.719 --> 00:36:40.159 mine is scheduled for the last week in october 00:36:40.759 --> 00:36:43.199 Which is already a crazy week and so I just kind 00:36:43.199 --> 00:36:45.539 of steer into the skid with it because it's dress 00:36:45.539 --> 00:36:47.599 -up days every because it's red ribbon week so 00:36:47.599 --> 00:36:49.519 there's dress -up days every single day and you 00:36:49.519 --> 00:36:55.300 get the yeah, the The character dress -up parade 00:36:55.300 --> 00:36:58.719 and all that kind of stuff. Yeah, and so I do 00:36:58.719 --> 00:37:04.639 it that week and honestly the Friday before that 00:37:04.639 --> 00:37:07.219 and Next week it might our next year. It might 00:37:07.219 --> 00:37:09.530 not be the week before but it might be during 00:37:09.530 --> 00:37:11.849 that week but our campus also does a trunk or 00:37:11.849 --> 00:37:14.550 treat event yeah and so that's my evening event 00:37:14.550 --> 00:37:19.909 for the book fair and it does well so trying 00:37:19.909 --> 00:37:21.630 to set up something like that would be good but 00:37:21.630 --> 00:37:25.469 no um yeah the north texas teen festival just 00:37:25.469 --> 00:37:28.570 was not going to be on mine because that was 00:37:28.570 --> 00:37:32.550 that was also the week that monday i was out 00:37:32.550 --> 00:37:36.119 help dealing with sarah because she had her colonoscopy 00:37:36.119 --> 00:37:39.480 and then that Wednesday I took a half day to 00:37:39.480 --> 00:37:42.099 go to see that author visit so trying to take 00:37:42.099 --> 00:37:44.400 that Friday off too I was like that's too much 00:37:44.400 --> 00:37:49.719 in one week to do so but next year I'd like to 00:37:49.719 --> 00:37:52.179 I think I'm gonna try and like plan in like September 00:37:52.179 --> 00:37:56.679 and just put that day in as a day off to go next 00:37:56.679 --> 00:37:58.800 year because I've never been and I hear it's 00:37:58.800 --> 00:38:03.010 an amazing experience and so I'd like to go It 00:38:03.010 --> 00:38:07.530 is. I went two years ago, I think. Yeah, it's 00:38:07.530 --> 00:38:10.030 really good. It's like TLA light. It's good. 00:38:10.150 --> 00:38:12.809 Yeah, that's it. And I've never been, and so 00:38:12.809 --> 00:38:16.070 I'd like to add that to my list of experiences 00:38:16.070 --> 00:38:18.730 to go to that. And it's free. And that's it. 00:38:18.849 --> 00:38:21.710 It doesn't cost anything other than me coming 00:38:21.710 --> 00:38:26.889 up with subplans for the day. So I do want to 00:38:26.889 --> 00:38:29.829 do it. I do want to go. And so I think I'm going 00:38:29.829 --> 00:38:32.320 to try and make that happen this year. I was 00:38:32.320 --> 00:38:34.099 pretty irritated that I couldn't go this year 00:38:34.099 --> 00:38:37.400 but that's okay. Yeah. This year's wonky in a 00:38:37.400 --> 00:38:42.099 lot of ways. Yeah this year you know it's a learning 00:38:42.099 --> 00:38:44.019 year especially for you like growing year because 00:38:44.019 --> 00:38:47.039 it's all the new stuff and so that is what's 00:38:47.039 --> 00:38:50.820 happening absolutely. Next year is a like we 00:38:50.820 --> 00:38:52.820 can make a goal next year we're gonna try and 00:38:52.820 --> 00:38:56.380 go. I'm going. It's happening.