OPL Children’s Librarians Best Books 2009

If you are still looking for holiday gifts, you may want to see if your children may be interested in some of our favorite books that were published in 2009. Here’s our list:

Picture Books/Easy Readers
Marci:
Monsters Don’t Eat Broccoli by Barbara Jean Hicks
Poodle and Hound by Kathryn Lasky
Stagecoach Sal by Deborah Hopkinson
Debbie:
Jeremy Draws a Monster by Peter McCarty
Guess Again by Mac Barnett
Testing the Ice: A True Story About Jackie Robinson by Sharon Robinson
Judy:
Footprints in the Snow by Mei Matsuoka
How to lose all Your Friends by Nancy Carlson
The Lion and the Mouse by Jerry Pinkney
Trish:
The Hair of Zoe Fleefenbacher Goes to School by Laurie Halse Anderson
Red Sings from the Tree Tops: A Year in Colors by Joyce Sidman
Princess Bess Gets Dressed by Margery Cuyler
Turkey Trouble by Wendi Silvano
Felicity Floo Visits the Zoo by E.S. Redmond
Birdie’s Big Girl Shoes by Sujean Rim
Sally:
Moonshadow’s Journey by Gillian Lobel
The Truly Terribly Horrible Sweater that Grandma Knit by Debbie Macomber
My Forever Dress by Harriet Ziefert

Picture Books for Older Readers
Judy:
January’s Sparrow by Patricia Polacco
The Secret Shofar of Barcelona by Jacqueline Dembar Greene

Chapter Books
Marci:
When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly
Al Capone Shines My Shoes by Gennifer Choldenko
Debbie:
11 Birthdays by Wendy Mass
The Small Adventure of Elvis and Popeye by Barbara O’Connor
Judy:
SLOB by Ellen Potter
Trish:
A Season of Gifts by Richard Peck
Sally:
Everything for a Dog by Ann Martin

The True Gift :  A Christmas Story by Patricia MacLachlan

Non-Fiction Books
Marci:
The Great and Only Barnum : the Tremendous, Stupendous Life of Showman P.T. Barnum by Candace Fleming
Claudette Colvin : Twice Toward Justice by Phillip M. Hoose
Marching for Freedom : Walk Together, Children, and Don’t You Grow Weary by Elizabeth Partridge
Debbie:
The Day-Glo Brothers: The True Story of Bob and Joe Switzer’s Bright Ideas and Brand-New Colors by Chris Barton
Judy:
Living Sunlight by Molly Bang
14 Cows for America by Carmen Agra Deedy
Sally:
Never Smile at a Monkey by Steve Jenkins

Winter Programs

Winter programs for children here at the Ossining Public Library will begin in January. The brochure is now available online. Click here to see a copy in English.

Click here to see a copy in Spanish.

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Jeff Kinney is coming!

 

Many of you have already heard that Jeff Kinney, author of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, is coming to Ossining Public Library on January 16th at 2:00 PM. Registration and ticket distribution will begin on January 4th. This event is limited to Ossining School District residents, who will have to show proof of residence when they register and pick up their tickets. 

Here are the requirements for tickets:

• Children must be in 1st grade or higher to receive a ticket.
• Children in 3rd grade and younger must be accompanied by an adult.  
• Tickets must be picked up in person for members of your own family – friends and neighbors must pick up their own tickets.
• Each child and each adult must have his/her own ticket.

For more information, call the Children’s Room Reference Desk: 941-2416 ext. 337 or 338

We’re very happy that this children’s book super-star will be visiting us!

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Park School Pre-K and Little School classes visit the library

All of the Park School Pre-K and Little School classes visited the library with their parents in December.  The parents and children enjoyed some stories, were led on a short tour of the Children’s Room, heard about library rules, and the best part of all:  each child received their very own library card. Welcome to the library!

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Bookworms News

Click on the link above, “Book Club News,” to see the latest about what our very devoted group of readers here at the Ossining Public Library read this month.

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Best Books of 2009

It’s that time of year – everyone is choosing favorite books of 2009.

Click here for a list from School Library Journal. It includes picture books, chapter books, non-fiction books and books for teens.  All of the children’s book that appear on the list are already here at Ossining Public Library or on order (the books on order will be here soon). Come check them out.

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Come in and check out an award winner

 

Claudette  Colvin: Twice Toward Justice, by Phillip  Hoose, is the winner of the National Book Award in the category of Young People’s Literature. It is the true story of a brave African-American teen who defied Jim Crow laws in March 1955 by refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white woman in Montgomery, Alabama.

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