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25 October 2012

For the Detroit Bibliophiles: DPL Booksale!

Wish we could be there! From one of our very favorite libraries... Detroit Public Library:

The Detroit Public Library Friends Foundation Used Book Sale  
 Join us this week for the Detroit Public Library Friends Foundation Used Book Sale on Friday & Saturday, October 26-27, 2012 from 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. The sale will take place on "A" Level of the Main Library, located at 5201 Woodward Ave., Detroit, MI 48202.

Thousands of books are sorted by subject -- autobiography, biography, cookbooks, computer manuals, art books, science fiction, history, politics,rare and collectible books, African American titles, poetry, science, children's books, adult fiction and non-fiction, along with CDs, DVDs and audio books from $ .25 and up.

The sale benefits the Detroit Public Library's Summer Reading Program.

Join our Circle of Friends by calling (313) 481-1359 or visit www.detroitpubliclibrary.org/friends-foundation for more information.

 

Friends Only Preview  
Wednesday, October 24, 5:30 - 7:00 p.m. 
Scanners are allowed during the last half hour of sale.

Oh, and P.S. Go Tigers ;)

19 June 2012

The Mash Ups (and Sequels) Challenge

Give it your best shot: 
get silly with the title, 
create a sequel,
make up a new book 
--title and description-- 
with a twist or two!

We came up with a couple to get you started:


Eat Pray Love (On a budget) 
by Rick Steves 
A sequel to Eat Pray Love, a guide on how to 
have all of Elizabeth Gilbert's adventures.. on a budget. Written by the
champion of cheap travel, Rick Steves himself.


Getting to Aslan's Country: My Life After Narnia
by Lucy Pevensie
Lucy Pevensie answers all of your burning questions about life
after life in Narnia. Everything you ever wanted to know
about Aslan and his grand country Lucy
reveals as "The Chronicles Continue".
Next in the Series: Edmund in Real Life: How I Dealt with
an Evil Queen by Edmund Pevensie

Here's a tip: grab a favorite book and imagine what else you'd like to learn about the subject --or change the perspective... have FUN!!


Add your ideas in the comments below.
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18 May 2012

Never Too Old for Fairy Tales


“If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales
and I like them best of all.”
Audrey Hepburn

17 May 2012

Goodbye, Dear Jean Craighead George --we'll miss you, thank you for leaving us so many books!

This morning, I (The Mom) cried. Not simply that Jean Craighead George died (she passed away May 15, 2012), but because upon learning of her death I learned that realized this amazing woman had been alive. For if I had known I would have written her a letter. I cried over the lost chance to thank her. So I decided to write her now. (And it made me cry more, but I feel better now!)

 Jean feeding a wolf pup.
Dear Jean (do you mind if we address you as Jean? To us, you are a good friend),

This letter will be brief since we imagine you busy with your animals. Did you know that in our house --that is tucked in the middle of the woods-- we couldn't survive without you? Over the years we've read and then researched so many things, ALL BECAUSE OF YOU. Many people ask us our very favorite books; we agree with Neil Gaiman who said, "picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you'd most like not to lose." Jean we pick your books; they are like body parts. Thank you.

With adventurous, animal loving hearts,
The Four of  Us
Jean, we will miss you. 


Tell us your favorite Jean Craighead George book or story 
-or perhaps write her a letter too! 
Share in the comments below.


Thankfully, we'll always have all of these amazing BOOKS:

Acorn Pancakes & Dandelion Salad and 38 Other Wild Recipes (1995) 
All Upon A Sidewalk (1974) 
All Upon A Stone (1971) 
The American Walk Book (1978) 
Animals Who Have Won Our Hearts (1994) 
Arctic Son (1997) 
Autumn Moon (2001) 
Beastly Inventions, A Surprising Investigation into Just How Smart Animals Really Are (1970) 
The Big Book For Our Planet (1993) 
Bubo the Great Horned Owl (1954) 
The Buffalo Are Back (2010) 
The Case of the Missing Cutthroats: An Ecological Mystery (1996) 
The Cats of Roxville Station (2009) 
Charlie's Raven (2004) 
Cliff Hanger (2002) 
Coyote in Manhattan (1968) 
The Cry of the Crow: A Novel (1980) 
Dear Katie, The Volcano Is A Girl (1998) 
Dear Rebecca, Winter Is Here (1993) 
Dipper of Copper Creek (1956) 
Elephant Walk (1998) 
Everglades (1995) 
Everglades Wildguide (1972) 
The Fire Bug Connection (1993) 
Fire Storm (2003) 
The First Thanksgiving (1993) 
Frightful's Daughter (2002) 
Frightful's Daughter Meets the Baron Weasel (2007)
 Frightful's Mountain (1999) 
Giraffe Trouble (1998) 
Going to the Sun (1976) 
The Gorilla Gang (1998) 
The Grizzly Bear With the Golden Ears (1982) 
Gull Number 737 (1964) 
Hold Zero! (1966) 
The Hole in the Tree (1957) 
Hook a Fish Catch a Mountain (1975) 
How to Talk to Your Animals (1985) 
How to Talk to Your Cat (1986, 2000) 
How to Talk to Your Dog (1986) 
Incredible Animal Adventures (1999) 
Journey Inward (autobiography) (1982) 
Julie (sequel to Julie of the Wolves) (1994) 
Julie of the Wolves (1972) 
Julie's Wolf Pack (third in the Julie trilogy) (1997) 
Look to the North, A Wolf Pup Diary (1997) 
Marvels and Mysteries of Our Animal World (1964) 
Masked Prowler, the Story of a Raccoon (1950) 
Meph the Pet Skunk (1952) 
The Missing 'Gator of Gumbo Limbo (1992) 
Morning, Noon and Night (1999) 
My Side of the Mountain (1959) 
My Side of the Mountain Trilogy (2000) 
New York In Maps (1969) 
Nutik and Amaroq Play Ball (2001) 
Nutik, the Wolf Pup (2001) 
On the Far Side of the Mountain (sequel to 'My Side of the Mountain') (1990) 
One Day in the Alpine Tundra (1984) 
One Day in the Desert (1983)
One Day in the Prarie (1986) 
One Day in the Tropical Rain Forest (1990)
One Day in the Woods (1988) 
Pocket Guide to the Outdoors (2010)
The Last Polar Bea (2009) 
Red Robin, Fly Up! (1963)
Rhino Romp (1998)
River Rats (1979) 
Shark Beneath the Reef (1989)
Snowboard Twist (2004)
Snow Bear (1999)
Snow Tracks (1958)
Spring Comes to the Ocean (1965)
Spring Moon (2002)
The Summer of the Falcon (1962)
Summer Moon (2002)
The Talking Earth (1983)
The Tarantula in My Purse: And 172 Other Wild Pets (1996)
The Thirteen Moons- 13 volumes
The Moon of the Owls (1967, 1993)
The Moon of the Bears (1967, 1993)
The Moon of the Salamanders (1967, 1992)
The Moon of the Monarch Butterflies (1968, 1993)
The Moon of the Fox Pups (1968, 1992)
The Moon of the Wild Pigs (1968, 1992)
The Moon of the Mountain Lions (1968, 1991)
The Moon of the Chickarees (1969, 1992)
The Moon of the Deer (1969, 1992)
The Moon of the Alligators (1969, 1991)
The Moon of the Gray Wolves (1969, 1991)
The Moon of the Winter Bird (1969, 1992)
The Moon of the Moles (1969, 1992) 
There's an Owl in the Shower (1995) 
To Climb a Waterfall (1995) 
Tree Castle Island (2002) 
Vison the Mink (1949) 
Vulpes the Red Fox (1948)
Water Sky (1987) 
Wentletrap Trap (1978) 
Who Really Killed Cock Robin?: An Ecological Mystery (1971) 
The Wild, Wild Cook Book (1982) 
Winter Moon (2001) 
The Wolves Are Back (2008) 
The Wounded Wolf (1978)


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07 May 2012

More Libraries... Everywhere: Building Community by Building Small Libraries

The Sisters testing how the community library
looks with shelves full of BOOKS!
Last week we asked you to "Guess What We've Been Up To" and many of you guessed it RIGHT! We're working on a bunch of really, really small libraries to help build communities --perhaps in a neighborhood near you, and of course, we'd like to tell you the story:
There is something really amazing that happens when many, many people all have similar ideas at the same time, Carl Jung coined the amazing word: Synchronicity. Synchronicity is simply a marvelous, meaningful coincidence. Months ago we met the wonderful Kristen Talaga, Marketing and Communications Manager at Traverse Area District Library. We recall our original meeting had to do with dreaming and scheming, but our subsequent meetings have been all about library support. During one of these meetings we realized that both Traverse Area District Library and BFWP were working on the same thing: building small community libraries. And our calendars proved even more more synchronicity:  we'd even planned little library festivities in the same week --we believe Carl Jung is smiling somewhere. It seems the whole world is getting excited about little libraries, they are popping up everywhere!
“This is not a new idea, but it’s a great idea so we are ‘paying it forward,’” said  TADL Director, Metta T. Lansdale, Jr.  “The message behind the Little Free Library is simple and dovetails with TADL’s mission; it’s about building literacy as well as a sense of community.”
Yesterday we witnessed as the first of many Little Free Libraries was dedicated to the wonder-filled community of Traverse City. There were balloons, smiles, hugs, official ribbon cutting, photos taken, and happy patrons browsing new collection. When the hubbub died down there the little library remained; waiting for the next patron to open its doors and "Take a Book, Leave a Book" as the library urges all who visit to do.
Kids Creek Little Free Library
Learn More about the synchronicity of small community libraries and the Little Free Library Movement:
This article is dedicated to the amazing Kristen Talaga, we like to imagine a world where 
every library community has someone like Kristen on their team 
--that would be a lovely world indeed!
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04 May 2012

The Library: Your Gotta Fight. For Your Right.

Pure and simple, 
this one is for 
someecards.com "when you care enough to send a hit",  click here to send one!

And in memory of Adam Yauch, because The Dad is going to miss 
the original Three Beastie Boys, together.  

Remembering Adam Yauch | The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum

MCA Dead: Adam Yauch Remembered With Beastie Boys Hits


Take a moment, check out what's happening at BFWP: 

  • Guess What We've been up to? Building a little library, more coming soon! 


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03 May 2012

Get the Scoop! At Your Library: Choose Privacy Week 2012 "Freedom from Surveillance" & "What Parents Should Know About Privacy Online"



The theme for Choose Privacy Week, May 1-7, 2012, is "Freedom from Surveillance." The American Library Association’s (ALA) Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) started Choose Privacy Week in 2010 "to deepen public awareness about the serious issue of government surveillance, and offers individuals the resources to think critically and make more informed choices about their privacy." As fast as things change learning about our privacy rights can be a daunting task --what's a person to do? Well, check with the library of course! Or visit privacy revolution.org for resources galore.
“We protect each library user’s right to privacy and confidentiality with respect to information sought or received and resources consulted, borrowed, acquired, or transmitted.” 

The Campaign for America's Libraries created a list "What Parents Should Know About Privacy Online" to help navigate the wild and wonderful internet with children. Here is the scoop on the the main points (please visit @yourlibrary to get the full scoop and much more about privacy that should be a must read for EVERYONE!)
1. Do a family privacy audit.
2. Discuss with your children what privacy means— for your family, in school, with friends, and online.
3. Reinforce the message that your children have the right to control what they share about themselves, who they share it with and what others share about them.
4. Take a moment to talk about the “golden rule” of privacy: how to respect other people’s privacy.
5. Remember that sharing online is an opportunity to design a positive digital footprint. Our children grow up with online identities. And remember that once shared, digital media, such as cell phone photos or videos, have the potential to be endlessly shared, regardless of original intentions, and can be virtually impossible to remove.
6. Understand what you’re agreeing to when you or your children share information with commercial interests. Websites that ask for personal information in exchange for use of a “free” or paid product or service, whether it’s a social networking site, online game, store or promotion, often use the collected information in targeted advertising and to shape search results.
7. Get up to speed on social media and privacy and talk about it with your preteens and teens.

brought to you by @yourlibrary!


The Mom creates "Get the Scoop" to help The Sisters learn about what the library has to offer. Together we gather, review and share the information in hope of shedding a little more light on all the amazing things libraries do for us.

Knowledge is power; 
the library makes us feel pretty strong! 
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01 May 2012

Guess what we've been up to!

Here are a 
couple 
of hints:


The Dad and The Sisters just finished step one:
the basic installation.
A wonderful creation made completely
of recycled materials.


Now mix in a little sprinkle of the
Goddess of Wisdom, Athena,
well, an Athenæum
to be specific...


Shelves,
yup,
add shelves... 


Any 
guesses?


Answer 
coming
SOON!!
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23 April 2012

Share Thy Shakespeare Challenge


Happy BIRTHDAY Shakespeare!  
Celebrate by thinking of the Bard
and taking the challenge. 

The Share Thy Shakespeare Challenge is not so much a challenge to think of a line from Shakespeare or a book or a sonnet, but a challenge to stop and think about Shakespeare.  Try and remember the first time you heard a piece of Shakespeare or the first thing that comes to mind when you think of Shakespeare.  So think about William Shakespeare and we want to know what comes to your mind.  

We found some good resources to help you if Shakespeare is new to you or you find him hard to read or to understand:
  • Need Help reading Shakespeare?  How about some help that is fun to read click here for Joseph Smigelski's "How to Enjoy Reading Shakespeare." 
  • Know of a particularly good Shakespeare Festival, please tell us!


Please use the following format for your comment:  
Write down your thoughts on Shakespeare and post.
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13 April 2012

Get the Scoop at Your Library: Go Ahead, Celebrate National Library Week, All Year Long!!!

”Be a little careful about your library. 
Do you foresee what you will do with it? 
Very little to be sure. 
But the real question is, 
'What will it do with you?' 
You will come here 
and get books that will 
open your eyes, 
and your ears, 
and your curiosity, 
and turn you inside out 
or outside in.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson, find works by him at your library!

Show your support on your Facbook page! Thanks to @ your library you can easily edit your cover image to show your support with this fun graphic, click here to make it happen!
    April 8-14, 2012 is  National Library Week which, according to the American Library Association, "is a time to celebrate the contributions of our nation's libraries and librarians and to promote library use and support." 
    But we hope that National Library Week 
    will be every day, all year; that everyone 
    will get out there and use their library!


    Our little local act in support Interlochen Public Library: we donated 50 snazzy pocket "How to Keep a Book Journal" books and recycled bamboo pencils. IPL liked the idea so much they insisted on buying more --thanks for the support IPL, especially Amanda, nice work on all the festivities!! Thanks for the support from Blackbird Arts in Traverse City --who just happen to be the featured art in the McGuire Community Room this month at the Woodmere Branch of Traverse Area District Library. And to Crystal Crate and Cargo in Beulah for donating the wonderful pencils. And thanks to our secret donors, you know who you are; The Dad for helping The Mom assemble the final 10 journals; to The Sister's Gramma who wrote with her lovely handwriting on so many of the pencils; and to The Sisters and the BFWP Family of Readers, we are grateful for your endless support.


    Want one of these lovely journals for yourself or how about a bunch for your reading group? With every journal you purchase we donate one to a local library's Summer Reading Program!
    We're pretty giddy about our new pocket sized journals --thanks to ecojot for giving us a great deal. With a bit of layout fun, editing, cutting, a table of activity, and don't forget glue sticks --we have 200 lovely journals to share. Stay tuned for our own "Buy 1, Give 1 Campaign" --details coming soon!



    Watch this short film about ecojot's trip to Haiti, we've set our sights on helping them with their outreach --who knows, when The Sisters are 18 maybe we can volunteer with them?! Learn more about the ecojot "Give" program, click here, and get inspired to help spread literacy around the globe!


    Now Back to LIBRARIES! There are so many ways that a library can help, all you have to do is ask! Here are some tips and fun ways to learn about and support our wonderful libraries:
    • New to the library? The Sisters created Library 101 just for you, click here and get started!
    • Did you know that many libraries are hubs for GREAT ART? Check out your library and ask about their programming and/or installations --you may be surprised! And check out Library as Incubator Project, wow, so much inspiration, watch out, you WILL be inspired!
    • At the Books for Walls Project  we never have ads trying to sell books; rather than buying a book we suggest you first try to find it at the library. Need a little help? Try starting with www.worldcat.org which helps you find a book at a library nearest you, wherever you are!
    • Do you love the library? Check out I Love Libraries (www.ilovelibraries.org) brought to you by the American Library Association (www.ala.org.)
    • Interested in the State of America's Libraries? Read the 2012 report, hot off the presses --read on, click here. 
    "Even as budget-cutters take aim at libraries and their services, more than two-thirds of the 1,000-plus adults contacted in a survey in January said that the library’s assistance in starting a business or finding a job was important to them, according to the poll, conducted for the American Library Association (ALA) by Harris Interactive.
    Sixty-five percent of those polled said they had visited the library in the past year; women are significantly more likely than men (72 percent vs. 58 percent) to fall into this category, especially working women, working mothers and women aged 18-54. Overall, 58 percent of those surveyed said they had a library card, and the largest group was, again, women, especially working women and working mothers. College graduates and those with a household income of more than $100,000 were also well represented among card holders, according to the survey."
    • Follow the Books for Walls Project, we promise to keep up to date on library news (Get the Scoop at Your Library) and have a bunch of bookish fun. Click here for ways to keep in touch.
    • Do you love YOUR Library? Add it to our Favorite Libraries List -click here to check out the list, click here to add your favorite library.
    • Tell us a Library Love Story, we LOVE stories or tell us why you love your library (we shared out top ten) click here and read more!
    • Visit our Facebook page for some of the latest on local library National Library Week activities, little goodies and bookish info.
    Now go out and enjoy your library, 
    Celebrate Libraries Everyday!
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