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Creativity: Art & Writing
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Journals, Diaries & Letters (November, 2001)
With the advent of Internet e-mail far behind us, rarely does the postman deliver letters to our homes anymore. Even if you have a pen pal somewhere in the world, more than likely, you communicate electronically instead of on paper. The art of letter writing is quickly disappearing, and that's a shame. There are few things more exciting than receiving a real letter in the mail.
So, this month, we hearken back to letter and journal writing with the more than 20 books below. Read the diary of Teresa Viscardi,West to a Land of Plenty, recounting her trip from New York to the Idaho Territory in 1883. Share in the rigors of life on a New Hampshire farm through Catherine Hall's journal in the Newbery Award winner A Gathering of Days. And don't miss the letters from children to Rosa Parks in Dear Mrs. Parks, and Martin Luther King, Jr. in Dear Dr. King. Then sit down, with pen in hand, and write a letter to someone you know!
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Make a Gift (December 2002)
While school is out during the holidays, take time to make a gift for a friend, or try your hand at a new craft idea. Homemade gifts mean so much because you took the time to make them. Many craft ideas in the books below are simple and inexpensive to make. So, put on some holiday music and create!
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Make It and Take It (June 203)
If you're looking for a way to fill those summer hours, make it and take it! There are hundreds of books with craft ideas for all ages. Learn how to make rubbings on paper, how to create crayon stained glass, and how to cook your own play dough. And then snuggle up with the Newbery Award winner A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park and feel what it was like to live in 15th century Korea where some of the worlds most beautiful pottery was made. Ideas abound and most of the crafts in the books below call for few materials and much imagination. So get going&be crafty!
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Poetry Alive! (October, 2002)
Nothing can make you laugh, cry or sing out loud like a great poem. Some poems are funny. Some are sad. Some play with words in clever innovative ways that surprise and delight us. All of us know that there's great poetry out there, but we often forget to look for it and sometimes don't know where to find it in a library. But it's easy. Most poetry books sit together on the shelf at the Dewey Decimal number of 811. So come to the library and browse that section. You'll be amazed at what you discover. Get started with the sampling below.
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Poetry Smoetry
When you start reading poetry,
are you filled with dread?
Do your ears fill with cotton?
Do your eyes roll in your head?
Perhaps you have not found,
the right poetry.
The kind that fills your heart with gladness
and makes you skip with glee.
Take a look at these books
and what they have to offer.
Then you'll be a poetry Prince
and not a poetry pauper.
And if you find you like it,
you might feel inspired.
Send a poem to Kids in Print,
maybe they'll say,
"you're hired."
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Snapshots in September (September 2005)
There's an old saying, "A picture is worth a thousand words."Snapshots capture people and places, bringing us an exact moment through the lens of a camera and its artistic photographer. The books below tell photographic stories about people we've not met and places we've not been through photos.
Meet Ma-Da and Lalita, who greet their friends with "Min gala ba!"and "Namaste!" as you take a photographic journey in Families by Uwe Ommer. Travel to New York with photographer Charles Smith to meet the boys choir of Harlem in Perfect Harmony: A Musical Journey with the Boys Choir of Harlem. Explore how people and animals around the world engage in play through the photos of Ann Morris in Play. And travel to Montana with George Ancona to experience a real Powwow.
May these and the books below inspire you to take snapshots of your own world!
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