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Oh, the title librarians got an email from Cindy
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and they purchased a bunch of stuff for title
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schools. And one of the things is a bunch of
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indie cars. I don't know how many. That's awesome.
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I know. It's really cool. And Sphero is going
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to come and do a training. Oh, cool. Indie Sphero,
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isn't it? Yeah. I think it is. Yes, it is. Yeah,
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they're going to come and do a training with
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us on the next PD day, that October, whatever.
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Yeah. That's awesome. That's really cool. Yeah.
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Yeah. So that's exciting, especially because
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I have like nothing. Like there are no, nothing's
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like that. That's awesome. That'll be cool. Yeah.
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I was also happy to see that my budget was not
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nearly as small as I thought it was going to
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be. I think my budget is actually a little bit
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bigger than last year's. Yeah. Not a lot. Maybe
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I have more kids this year. That's possible.
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I don't know. We lost a teacher. I'm not sure
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how that works. I don't know. But I think we
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have more sped kids maybe. I don't know. Something
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happened. Maybe you got a little bit more. You
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said you had a couple of bilingual classes that
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were pretty small last year. That's true. Oh
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no, you're right. That's the one. That's what
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happened. Yeah, that's definitely what happened.
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We still have a couple of tiny. bilingual classes,
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but we also have some gigantic ones. Yeah. Which
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we didn't have any gigantic ones last year. That's
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what it is. Good call. There you go. But no,
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that's, yeah, I was pretty happy. So I've already
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put in, I already spent a thousand dollars just
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to buy some new books and stuff. So. Yeah. I
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have my list made. I was waiting until Monday
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because the board meeting is Monday and I put
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in a list of other things that I want to put
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by on the next one. The order that I have submitted,
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it's books that we already had. I have another
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list I'm working on for books once the board
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approves it. Hello, I'm Patrick Adams. And I'm
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Caroline Legere. And this is Librarians of Littles,
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a podcast where we discuss books, give makerspace
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ideas, and give tips and tricks for working with
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our youngest learners in the library setting.
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This week we have some fun Halloween themed books
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to discuss. The first of which is The Haunted
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Playground written by R .J. Palacio, illustrated
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by Brett Helquist, and published by Random House
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Books for Young Readers in 2026. Because this
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book is so new, it does not have any awards or
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is on any lists yet. but it's a really good one
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that I wouldn't be surprised if it ends up on
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some lists in the future. So we'll move on to
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our author history and RJ Palacio from the Penguin
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Random House website, because I couldn't actually
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find that she has her own website, but RJ Palacio
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is the author of the number one New York Times
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bestseller, Wonder, which has sold over 16 million
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copies worldwide. The book's message inspired
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the Choose Kind movement and has been embraced
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by readers around the world, with the book published
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in over 50 languages. Palacio actually lives
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in Brooklyn with her husband and their dogs,
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Teddy and Vivian. And some of the other books
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by RJ Palacio include Wonder, Augie and Me, The
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Three Wonder Stories, We Are All Wonders, Pluto,
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a Wonder Story, 365 Days of Wonder, Mr. Brown's
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book of precepts, and then also Pony and the
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White Bird. Our illustrator is Brett Helquist,
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and from his website he says, When I was young,
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I loved to read comic strips in the daily paper.
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My favorite one was called Alley -oop about a
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time traveling caveman. I dreamed about drawing
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my own comic strip. This is my first memory of
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wanting to be an illustrator. After graduating
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from college, I left for New York City. My first
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job was as an intern with an illustrator named
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Robert Neubecker. I began showing my portfolio
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whenever I had the chance. Slowly, very slowly,
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the jobs began to trickle in. My first jobs were
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for newspapers and magazines. I did this type
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of work for about seven years. During this time,
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I also had a day job as a graphic designer. I
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eventually decided to pursue some work in children's
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books. The first book I had the chance to illustrate
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was The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket. And
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so, yes, this illustrator also has quite a few
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other books that he has illustrated, including
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the entire series of unfortunate events by Lemony
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Snicket, as well as The Mona Lisa Vanishes. A
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Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the
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Birth of a Global Celebrity, written by Nicholas
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Day. Odd and the Frost Giant, written by Neil
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Gaiman. The Chasing Vermeer series, written by
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Blue Belay. The League of Seven, written by Alan
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Gratz. The Doll People Set Sale, written by Ann
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M. Martin and Laura Godwin. Martina and Chrissy,
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the Greatest Rivalry in the History of Sports.
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written by Phil Biltner, as well as the Tales
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of the House of Benicula, that series, which
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is written by James Howe, and many, many more.
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And so this book, The Haunted Playground, is
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a rhyming story of the ghost king Rex Magnificus.
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And on midnight after Halloween, Rex Magnificus
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uses his magic to transform an ordinary playground
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into a wonderland for ghosts and spirits. This
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is the ghosts one opportunity a year to be happy
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and not scary. And when the festivities are interrupted
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by two neighborhood children who wake up because
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of the noise, Rex is at first angry and then
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perplexed as the children are not afraid. When
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Rex notices that the other ghosts are enjoying
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playing with the children, he capitulates and
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finds that playing with the children is indeed
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fun. When morning comes, both the children and
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the ghosts are sad to see each other leave. And
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so this book is truly beautiful. The illustrations
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are amazing. It makes the ghosts seem like they're
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these wisps of smoke on the page, which is just
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a really cool effect. the pictures just kind
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of bring you right into the world. It's pretty
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amazing. The rhyme scheme will definitely help
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the students stay focused because this book,
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there's a lot of text to it. It's a little bit
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longer. But I think that the rhyme and the flow
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will definitely keep the kids engaged. So that's
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not gonna be a big issue, I don't think. Especially
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since at this point in the year, like by October,
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the kids have kind of built up a little bit of
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a stamina for being able to sit still and pay
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attention. Like I wouldn't probably do this book
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at the very beginning of the year when they're
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still figuring out what's going on, but by October,
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by Halloween -ish, they, I think they'll be fine
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with this one. It's just a really cool story.
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The pictures are beautiful. It even does have
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page that folds out so it's like a three page
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spread at one point which is Always really exciting
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and special the kids really enjoy that and love
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it. It's just such a really cool story I think
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it's a lot of fun and It does kind of give like
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that like being inclusive and not making preconceptions
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about others in the story as well It's kind of
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like a subtext going on and so it's a it's got
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a cute little message. It's it's very beautiful
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and it's just a fun story and I always just like
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when the author takes the time to make it rhyme
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it just feels like there's a lot of intent in
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it and it just I think it makes the story a lot
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more fun and the students really engage with
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it a lot more. Yeah I haven't gotten to read
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this one yet because it is so new and I wasn't
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able to find it just yet um but I mean RJ Palacio
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is kind of great. and she does she is very well
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known for you know having those themes of inclusivity
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and kindness and such in her stories um so it
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i mean it sounds wonderful and i'm looking forward
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to reading it um i'm probably gonna put this
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one on my order list too like it just sounds
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um like a lovely kind of not too scary halloween
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type story it sounds great love that it's rhyming
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and everything that's Wonderful for younger readers
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who need some gentle cadences there to connect
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with. It sounds great. Yeah, it's it's really
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a great story. And like you said, it's not the
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ghosts aren't scary. They're most of the ghosts
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like in the story, the ghosts pick up like the
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old Halloween costumes that kids have shed as
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Halloween ended. And so like, the ghosts are
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walking, walking around wearing children's Halloween
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costumes and dressed up as silly little things
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and stuff. So yeah, they're definitely not scary.
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It's not going to be one of those ones where
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you have kids going home complaining to parents
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about nightmares or anything like that. It's
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really the theme and the tone is really light
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and fun. And so that's a nice thing to have around
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this time of year for our younger kids. Yeah,
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it sounds great. So I definitely give this book
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a five out of five bookmarks. I think it's great.
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I think everyone should go pick it up and enjoy
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it. And so for a makerspace activity, I think
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it'd be really fun to use the Legos and have
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the kids design either a whole playground or
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just a piece of playground equipment that they
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would like to see a ghost use, that they think
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would be fun for a ghost to use. Because in the
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story, the main character, the ghost king, uses
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his magic to change a normal playground into
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a bigger playground with carousels and stuff
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like that. And so taking a playground and making
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it work for a ghost, what would the kids do?
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How would they make it something that a ghost
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would enjoy and let them be creative and build
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using the Legos? Yeah. That sounds like a lot
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of fun. I like that they're being a lot more
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creative there and getting to use their imaginations
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and building something that would be fun for
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the ghosts to use. I love it. That sounds great.
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Yeah. It's a really good story. Yeah. I'm looking
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forward to reading that one. I really am. Yeah.
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All right, for our library littles management
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tip today, we're going to be talking about an
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organization called First Book. They have a website
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called firstbook .org that you can visit if you
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want to learn more about them. But they are a
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charity that works with publishers to get deeply
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discounted books to children and libraries who
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are in need. So this one is really great if you
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work with children who have lower socioeconomic
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status or who are underprivileged in some way.
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They do, they have something that I use a lot
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called a book bank. That's what they refer to
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it as the book bank. And pretty much if you qualify
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to purchase through them, you can get whole bunch
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of books for just the cost of shipping. So actually
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I just ordered some stuff from First Book last
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week. for our campus book vending machine because
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this year we're giving away books to students
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on their birthdays. So we're going to be giving
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away probably just for birthdays about 650 books
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or so. So we're going to need a lot of books.
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So I bought a bunch of Diary of a Wimpy Kid books
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for our vending machine. It was like a dollar
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a book to have it shipped over here. So that's
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pretty great. To qualify, there is a form that
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you have to fill out that states where your school
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is, name of your school, things like that. It'll
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also ask you the percentage of your students
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who are English language learners and the percentage
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of students who qualify for free and reduced
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lunch. Just to get a general idea of your diversity
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and your The demographics of your students, but
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if you qualify through them like you can get
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a lot of really great things And it isn't just
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books actually There's other things that are
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just related to education. There's a Lot of you
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can buy Legos through them. I got a lot of really
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cheap Legos this last year too. That was like
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I got several boxes of just like and it's just
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a cardboard box filled with random Lego pieces,
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which was amazing and perfect. But it was like,
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I don't remember how much, real cheap, but again
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it's like the cost, it's just the cost of shipping
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because it was part of the book bank. And you
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can also buy like, they have Play -Doh in the
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book bank right now, and I think they have markers,
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like a lot of just random educational things.
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And you do have to check it kind of frequently.
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I try and, they, If you can sign up to get their
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emails and that's what I do just to remind me
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that they exist because There's just a lot of
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things in the library Especially where I'm like
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there we have so many great resources that I'm
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like, I don't know where to go and I get overwhelmed
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and I forget but They do email because I'm on
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their email list About once a week with like
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their new releases or I guess not releases their
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New products that are available and different
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resources that they're offering. You can also
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do like webinars through them. Last week I did
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a Lego webinar about how to use, about playful
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libraries and how to use Legos within the library.
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And it had a really cool idea actually for asking
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students to use Legos to build the covers of
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books and have like their own book covers out
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of just Legos. It was really cute. I'm still
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kind of trying to figure out how I would implement
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that within my library with the amount of time
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I'm allotted and everything. But I just love
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that they did have like, you know, a webinar
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available that was very applicable. Just had
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to register and that was it. It was totally free
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and did give some really good resources. So the
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name of that organization again is First Book.
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and their website is firstbook .org. First Book
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Marketplace is the name of the website where
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you can purchase from them. Yeah, it's just like
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I said, you do have to check through kind of
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frequently because it does their stock changes
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a lot depending on what publishers give them
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because they partner with publishers and then
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when publishers have overstock or when they're
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switching out books or something or they just
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didn't sell a whole lot of something they'll
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give it to First Book so that First Book can
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disperse it amongst, you know, amongst children
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and libraries who need those resources. So they're
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not just wasted. So I absolutely love them. I
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think they're great. And there are several people
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at my campus who use First Book as well. So highly
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recommended if you haven't checked them out yet.
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Please do. Sounds amazing. This is not one of
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the things that I have taken the time to participate
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in before, but it sounds awesome. And the fact
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that it's not just books, but other things like
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Legos and Play -Doh and stuff like that just
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makes it all the more valuable a resource. So
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I'm definitely going to have to set up an account
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for my campus and see what I might qualify for
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and what we can do. Because yeah, this would
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be a really great opportunity for a lot of librarians
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and a lot of campuses that have lower income
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students and just getting kind of books into
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their hands would be amazing. Yeah and they do
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have occasionally they'll have grants that you
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can apply for usually the grants are for like
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a hundred dollars each and they're sponsored
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by Usually I've seen Pizza Hut and Build -A -Bear
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are the ones that sponsor the most grants. To
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get those I've just filled out a form and they'll
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ask you like what are you gonna do with the money
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and usually I tell them, well not usually, primarily
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I go to First Book to give books to kids. That's
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like what I use them for. It's just giving free
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books out to kids because it's all brand new
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stuff and I don't want to give If I'm gonna gift
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a student with a book, like I want it to be a
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nice book. I don't, I mean, I will give second,
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there's nothing wrong with giving secondhand
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or something that looks a little bit more tattered,
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but especially working with kids who are underprivileged,
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a lot of them, if they have stuff, it is gonna
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be secondhand already. And I, to me, it's important
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that they get something that's brand new every
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now and then, like, because they, I value them
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as a person and I think they deserve new things
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and to have nice things and then also so that
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they can see like that this matters this is something
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we need to take care of like literacy matters
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taking care of our books matter so those are
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the two reasons why I want to give new things
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so that's why I go to them so often but anyway
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I started talking about grants Yes, you can get
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grants through them every now and then, not all
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the time. You kind of have to pay attention for
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that too. Again, that's why I do the email list.
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But I've never been rejected for a grant from
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them. And they also will randomly do, you know,
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a code for just free books. So this last week
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when I ordered Wimpy Kid, it was because I got
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a $35 free, like, I guess a coupon. where you
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just spent, you know, $35 for something for free.
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So I ended up getting the Wimpy Kids, I think
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were a little over a dollar each for shipping.
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So I got like 30 books. It did have taxes on
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it because I personally was the one paying for
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it because they're not a vendor of the school.
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So since I was paying for it, I did have to pay
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taxes. So I ended up paying like $3 to get those
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like 30 books shipped here. And that was it.
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Which i'm okay with That's pretty awesome Yes,
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yes it was And everybody loves wimpy kid. Well,
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the bigger kids do anyway I know our littles
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i'm talking about wimpy kid when our littles
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aren't ready for that yet, but that's okay There
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was also some pigeon books on there It was a
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pigeon neck Uh -huh. That is good for our littles
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Yeah, there was a pigeon I don't remember the
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title. It wasn't like a Pigeon pigeon book like
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it was like an activity It's like an activity
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book of some kind. It wasn't a traditional like
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don't let the pigeon drive the bus book. I don't
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remember the name of it. Anyway, some activity
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book. It was good. It was a good deal. So I got
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a lot of those because that is good for all ages.
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And I think even my like fourth and fifth graders
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would like a pigeon book sometimes. So yeah,
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that's awesome. Yeah. Yep. I'm definitely going
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to have to go through and set that account up.
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start looking at what they've got available because
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this would be great for getting books in the
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hands of kids especially like I have a lot of
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kids like my campus should be title one but isn't
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and so like I have kids who the only books that
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they have at home are the ones they check out
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from the library and so to be able to get some
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more books that they can keep and have at home
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and stuff like that this sounds like a great
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opportunity to to be able to do some of that
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It is. It's good stuff. Go check it out. All
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right. Well, the next book that we're going to
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talk to talk about today is Five More Sleeps
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Till Halloween. It was published by Fuel and
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Friends. Is that how you say that? Firewell Fuel.
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Hmm. One of those. It was published in 2024.
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The author is Jimmy Fallon and the author, the
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author is Jimmy Fallon. The illustrator is Rich
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T .S. I think that's how you say his last name.
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This book is not on any awards or lists, but
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it's a fun read. The blurb from Jimmy Fallon's
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publisher's website reads, Emmy and Grammy Award
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winner Jimmy Fallon is the author of number one
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New York Times bestselling children's books.
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Your baby's first word will be dada. Everything
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is mama. This is baby. Nana loves you more. Papa
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doesn't do anything. Five more sleeps till Christmas,
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five more sleeps till Halloween, and Con Pollo,
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a bilingual playtime adventure. Fallon lives
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in New York with his wife Nancy, their two daughters
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Winnie and Franny, and their dog Gary. And that
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also, that blurb list included a list of all
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of the books that he's had published. I do love,
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honestly, that the author history only included
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his writing and only had like things that he's
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done as far as like books that he's published
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even though it is Jimmy Fallon and obviously
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he has done a lot more than published books and
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but I mean that's what he's known for is his
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books right I know right I love that they focused
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on that though that made me happy and then the
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illustrator again from the publisher's website
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because neither of them have websites dedicated
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to publishing or anything in the publishing world.
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So the publisher does, though, and they want
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you to know all about them. So Rich Diaz is a
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designer, an illustrator, and a senior creative
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director at Macmillan Children's Publishing Group
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in New York City. He has designed hundreds of
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book covers and has illustrated several picture
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books, including Five More Sleeps Till Christmas.
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He resides in Glen Ridge, New Jersey with his
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wife and two sons. And when I looked up his page
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on the publisher's website, like Yeah, like they
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showed pictures of all the book covers that he's
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illustrated and yeah, it is, uh -huh. Hundreds,
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hundreds indeed. He's done a lot. But he does
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primarily illustrate just book covers. And I
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think when you read this book, you can kind of,
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I see that, I see that. Yeah. So for the book
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summary for this, it's... pretty much it follows
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a young boy who's having a five -day countdown
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to Halloween in anticipation of the holiday.
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It's written in rhyme, so it sounds like a long
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-form poem. I really love the cadence of it and
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just the flow of the words. It's fabulous for
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young children. Like I was saying, as far as
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the pictures go, when you read it, I can totally
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tell that the guy who illustrated it does primarily
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do book covers. Like, the entire page is covered
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from, like, the whole thing. There's absolutely
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no blank space in this book at all, which can
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get a little bit overwhelming at times. It is
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bright and it is colorful, but it does get a
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little overwhelming sometimes with all of the,
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like, just because it's all covered. I do like
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that between like it'll say you know five more
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sleeps till Halloween and it'll have a little
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bit about it and then when you turn the page
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it'll have a big number four because now there's
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only four more sleeps till Halloween and I like
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that it like emphasizes how many more sleeps
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it is until we get to the big day. There's lots
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of references to all the Halloween traditions
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in here so like it goes through you know trick
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-or -treating and dressing up and all the decorations
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that you would see and what kind of monsters
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you would see and I do think all the kids in
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the world are going to be able to relate to counting
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down to the big day of any kind. I do as far
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as like reading it in the school library goes
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I'm not sure I would there's a lot of kids who
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don't celebrate Halloween especially there's
00:27:18.619 --> 00:27:21.259
you know celebrating specific holidays is kind
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of like hit or miss you know there's most kids
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are like gonna be okay with celebrating the traditional
00:27:29.339 --> 00:27:32.880
American things but Halloween especially I feel
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like that's one where more people are gonna opt
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out of that. This book isn't really scary at
00:27:40.509 --> 00:27:46.269
all, but I do think as far as reading it at home
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to my own children, this would 100 % have been
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a favorite of me as a mom reading this to my
00:27:54.329 --> 00:27:57.049
kids when they were younger. absolutely I could
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see us reading this like over and over and over
00:27:59.430 --> 00:28:01.829
again and I think this would be a great read
00:28:01.829 --> 00:28:05.190
for a public library where it's a little bit
00:28:05.190 --> 00:28:08.769
easier for people to opt in and out and you can
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do a little bit more of like maybe you do you
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know different holidays and maybe you do one
00:28:14.109 --> 00:28:17.130
one you know specific halloween read aloud and
00:28:17.130 --> 00:28:18.690
this would be it and then the next one you could
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do like dia de los muertos or something and do
00:28:21.730 --> 00:28:25.230
um you have a little bit more freedom there But
00:28:25.230 --> 00:28:27.210
a school one where the kids are like just kind
00:28:27.210 --> 00:28:28.990
of stuck there and like we're doing this with
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everybody Honestly, I'm not sure I would do it,
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but I still really like it a lot so I probably
00:28:34.809 --> 00:28:38.509
give it like overall a four out of five because
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it isn't gonna be for everybody because not everybody
00:28:41.210 --> 00:28:45.809
does Halloween and Like specific Halloween. I
00:28:45.809 --> 00:28:48.170
would still do like usually around Halloween.
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I do do like I said that I do read books that
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are like Halloween adjacent with ghosts and such
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and I you know The book that you talked about
00:29:00.720 --> 00:29:03.480
would do that 100 % of the school library this
00:29:03.480 --> 00:29:05.160
one I'm not sure I would but I still really liked
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a lot. So anyway four and a five bookmarks for
00:29:08.539 --> 00:29:13.519
me And it's still a good one. So yeah. Yeah Yeah,
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I enjoyed it. It's a lot of fun. I agree that
00:29:16.119 --> 00:29:21.680
you can see that DS rich DS is the like a cover
00:29:22.049 --> 00:29:25.190
kind of guy because each page looks like a giant
00:29:25.190 --> 00:29:29.470
splash page for a cover. It's very intricate
00:29:29.470 --> 00:29:31.650
and very detailed and there's a lot going on.
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You can look for certain things that keep popping
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up throughout it. His art style is really great.
00:29:41.109 --> 00:29:46.180
It's a lot on every page, I agree. But some kids
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will really find that interesting to be able
00:29:47.980 --> 00:29:49.799
to look for all those little pieces and stuff.
00:29:49.799 --> 00:29:51.809
For others, it's gonna be... really distracting,
00:29:52.309 --> 00:29:54.769
but it's a cute, very, very cute story. It's
00:29:54.769 --> 00:29:59.779
a lot of fun. Um, you can actually also, I, the
00:29:59.779 --> 00:30:02.700
first time I looked at it, I did it through,
00:30:02.700 --> 00:30:06.900
um, YouTube because they have a Barnes and Noble
00:30:07.309 --> 00:30:10.009
reading, uh, and Jimmy Fallon is the one that
00:30:10.009 --> 00:30:12.920
actually reads it on YouTube. So you can do it
00:30:12.920 --> 00:30:17.059
that way too. If, um, any of our listeners are
00:30:17.059 --> 00:30:19.000
interested, that's a cool way to be introduced
00:30:19.000 --> 00:30:20.680
to it. So it's Jimmy Fallon actually reading
00:30:20.680 --> 00:30:24.259
his own book. But yeah, the pictures are pretty
00:30:24.259 --> 00:30:28.119
great. Honestly, that's the kind of thing that
00:30:28.119 --> 00:30:29.799
we need to think about that I didn't as much
00:30:29.799 --> 00:30:33.299
is like, would this be good for a public school
00:30:33.299 --> 00:30:37.359
during Halloween? And I agree. Most of the time
00:30:37.359 --> 00:30:42.269
when I do Halloween books, they're not specific
00:30:42.269 --> 00:30:45.970
to Halloween. They're like monster books or ghost
00:30:45.970 --> 00:30:50.029
books. And we do it around that time, but don't
00:30:50.029 --> 00:30:54.599
specifically choose. to do like Halloween books.
00:30:55.019 --> 00:30:57.099
So that wasn't something that I thought about,
00:30:57.099 --> 00:31:01.740
but yeah, you're right. Maybe, maybe not for
00:31:01.740 --> 00:31:04.319
a read aloud, still a good book to have on the
00:31:04.319 --> 00:31:07.160
library shelf and had let kids pick out to read.
00:31:07.200 --> 00:31:11.420
Cause then it's their choice. Yeah. I like it
00:31:11.420 --> 00:31:14.160
a lot. It was fun. I do actually, now that you
00:31:14.160 --> 00:31:17.579
mentioned that, I forgot to say that I do own
00:31:17.579 --> 00:31:22.650
this in my library. I do have it, but It's gonna
00:31:22.650 --> 00:31:25.549
stay on the shelf and available for checkout.
00:31:25.809 --> 00:31:27.650
And when a kid checks it out, I'm like, it's
00:31:27.650 --> 00:31:29.490
about Halloween. Is that cool with you? Yes.
00:31:29.710 --> 00:31:34.099
Okay, cool. Have a good day. Even just pull it
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out and have it on display so they can see it.
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Yeah, that's where it is right now. Even though
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we're a month away from Halloween it's the first
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big holiday and kids are getting excited and
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they're already asking for all the Halloween
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stuff and I do have a display already of a few
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Halloween books and this is on there and like
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I'm gonna let kids check it out bring it home
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it's it's a good book great one to read at home
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so yeah it's a good one for the library maybe
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not for a read -a -lab yeah but that's okay it's
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still good And then for a makerspace activity
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for this one, I mean, really anything Halloween
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related because it's all Halloween. My favorite
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Halloween activity that I think I've talked about
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on this before because I love it, but I love
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it, so I'm gonna say it again anyway, is for
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the younger kids, I really like to get like a
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smaller pumpkins, like five or six like pie pumpkins,
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not huge. and expo markers and let the kids draw
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their own jack -o -lanterns because you can mark
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up the pumpkins as much as you want and then
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you can wipe them off with a baby wipe. It's
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really easy to clean off. Kids absolutely love
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it. It's great for fine motor skills and practicing
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any kind of writing and just encouraging just
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all that wonderful writing that they need to
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do and really hate to do. So that is going to
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be my makerspace activity for the week of Halloween.
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I don't know what book I'll do yet but like this
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one would have fit in with that one real well
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if you wanted to do that. I love that. I love
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that idea. I need to do that this year because
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I think a lot of my students would really enjoy
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it. I agree. That would be a lot of fun and it's
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easy. It's not like let them kind of decorate
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yeah yeah super fast and easy kids get to be
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creative with it all the things yeah i love that
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low prep low prep is my favorite yes especially
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like we said october gets busy so low prep things
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are very important during october low prep but
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still themed and fun there you go All right.
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Well, thank you all for joining us on this episode
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of Librarians of Littles, and we hope you found
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some fresh ideas for inspiring our youngest learners.
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at librarianoflittlespod at gmail .com. I found
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out that I'm basically the crypt keeper. I am
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so old. It's not even funny anymore. What did
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you do? What happened? What do you mean? So JD,
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the other night, Thursday night, I guess, um,
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after band practice gets in the car and he's
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like that. What schools did you teach at again?
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So I told him and he was like, yeah, Mr. Davidson,
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his, uh, percussion director just got married
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this summer. He's like, yeah. Um, his wife is
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the percussion director over. at one of the other
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high schools in the district. I was like, okay,
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yeah, you taught her. And then I had to go and
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look and yeah, my second year teaching, she was
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in my fourth grade class. That's fun. Wow. Yup.
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Congratulations. Cause that means I taught her
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about 17 years ago. Wow. Yeah.
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Oh, the title librarians got an email from Cindy
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and they purchased a bunch of stuff for title
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schools. And one of the things is a bunch of
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indie cars. I don't know how many. That's awesome.
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I know. It's really cool. And Sphero is going
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to come and do a training. Oh, cool. Indie Sphero,
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isn't it? Yeah. I think it is. Yes, it is. Yeah,
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they're going to come and do a training with
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us on the next PD day, that October, whatever.
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Yeah. That's awesome. That's really cool. Yeah.
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Yeah. So that's exciting, especially because
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I have like nothing. Like there are no, nothing's
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like that. That's awesome. That'll be cool. Yeah.
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I was also happy to see that my budget was not
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nearly as small as I thought it was going to
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be. I think my budget is actually a little bit
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bigger than last year's. Yeah. Not a lot. Maybe
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I have more kids this year. That's possible.
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I don't know. We lost a teacher. I'm not sure
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how that works. I don't know. But I think we
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have more sped kids maybe. I don't know. Something
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happened. Maybe you got a little bit more. You
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said you had a couple of bilingual classes that
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were pretty small last year. That's true. Oh
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no, you're right. That's the one. That's what
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happened. Yeah, that's definitely what happened.
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We still have a couple of tiny. bilingual classes,
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but we also have some gigantic ones. Yeah. Which
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we didn't have any gigantic ones last year. That's
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what it is. Good call. There you go. But no,
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that's, yeah, I was pretty happy. So I've already
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put in, I already spent a thousand dollars just
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to buy some new books and stuff. So. Yeah. I
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have my list made. I was waiting until Monday
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because the board meeting is Monday and I put
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in a list of other things that I want to put
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by on the next one. The order that I have submitted,
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it's books that we already had. I have another
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list I'm working on for books once the board
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approves it. Hello, I'm Patrick Adams. And I'm
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Caroline Legere. And this is Librarians of Littles,
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a podcast where we discuss books, give makerspace
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ideas, and give tips and tricks for working with
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our youngest learners in the library setting.
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This week we have some fun Halloween themed books
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to discuss. The first of which is The Haunted
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Playground written by R .J. Palacio, illustrated
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by Brett Helquist, and published by Random House
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Books for Young Readers in 2026. Because this
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book is so new, it does not have any awards or
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is on any lists yet. but it's a really good one
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that I wouldn't be surprised if it ends up on
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some lists in the future. So we'll move on to
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our author history and RJ Palacio from the Penguin
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Random House website, because I couldn't actually
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find that she has her own website, but RJ Palacio
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is the author of the number one New York Times
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bestseller, Wonder, which has sold over 16 million
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copies worldwide. The book's message inspired
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the Choose Kind movement and has been embraced
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by readers around the world, with the book published
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in over 50 languages. Palacio actually lives
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in Brooklyn with her husband and their dogs,
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Teddy and Vivian. And some of the other books
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by RJ Palacio include Wonder, Augie and Me, The
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Three Wonder Stories, We Are All Wonders, Pluto,
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a Wonder Story, 365 Days of Wonder, Mr. Brown's
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book of precepts, and then also Pony and the
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White Bird. Our illustrator is Brett Helquist,
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and from his website he says, When I was young,
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I loved to read comic strips in the daily paper.
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My favorite one was called Alley -oop about a
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time traveling caveman. I dreamed about drawing
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my own comic strip. This is my first memory of
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wanting to be an illustrator. After graduating
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from college, I left for New York City. My first
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job was as an intern with an illustrator named
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Robert Neubecker. I began showing my portfolio
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whenever I had the chance. Slowly, very slowly,
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the jobs began to trickle in. My first jobs were
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for newspapers and magazines. I did this type
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of work for about seven years. During this time,
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I also had a day job as a graphic designer. I
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eventually decided to pursue some work in children's
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books. The first book I had the chance to illustrate
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was The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket. And
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so, yes, this illustrator also has quite a few
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other books that he has illustrated, including
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the entire series of unfortunate events by Lemony
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Snicket, as well as The Mona Lisa Vanishes. A
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Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the
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Birth of a Global Celebrity, written by Nicholas
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Day. Odd and the Frost Giant, written by Neil
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Gaiman. The Chasing Vermeer series, written by
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Blue Belay. The League of Seven, written by Alan
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Gratz. The Doll People Set Sale, written by Ann
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M. Martin and Laura Godwin. Martina and Chrissy,
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the Greatest Rivalry in the History of Sports.
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written by Phil Biltner, as well as the Tales
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of the House of Benicula, that series, which
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is written by James Howe, and many, many more.
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And so this book, The Haunted Playground, is
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a rhyming story of the ghost king Rex Magnificus.
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And on midnight after Halloween, Rex Magnificus
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uses his magic to transform an ordinary playground
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into a wonderland for ghosts and spirits. This
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is the ghosts one opportunity a year to be happy
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and not scary. And when the festivities are interrupted
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by two neighborhood children who wake up because
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of the noise, Rex is at first angry and then
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perplexed as the children are not afraid. When
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Rex notices that the other ghosts are enjoying
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playing with the children, he capitulates and
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finds that playing with the children is indeed
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fun. When morning comes, both the children and
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the ghosts are sad to see each other leave. And
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so this book is truly beautiful. The illustrations
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are amazing. It makes the ghosts seem like they're
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these wisps of smoke on the page, which is just
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a really cool effect. the pictures just kind
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of bring you right into the world. It's pretty
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amazing. The rhyme scheme will definitely help
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the students stay focused because this book,
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there's a lot of text to it. It's a little bit
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longer. But I think that the rhyme and the flow
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will definitely keep the kids engaged. So that's
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not gonna be a big issue, I don't think. Especially
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since at this point in the year, like by October,
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the kids have kind of built up a little bit of
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a stamina for being able to sit still and pay
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attention. Like I wouldn't probably do this book
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at the very beginning of the year when they're
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still figuring out what's going on, but by October,
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by Halloween -ish, they, I think they'll be fine
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with this one. It's just a really cool story.
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The pictures are beautiful. It even does have
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page that folds out so it's like a three page
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spread at one point which is Always really exciting
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and special the kids really enjoy that and love
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it. It's just such a really cool story I think
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it's a lot of fun and It does kind of give like
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that like being inclusive and not making preconceptions
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about others in the story as well It's kind of
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like a subtext going on and so it's a it's got
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a cute little message. It's it's very beautiful
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and it's just a fun story and I always just like
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when the author takes the time to make it rhyme
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it just feels like there's a lot of intent in
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it and it just I think it makes the story a lot
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more fun and the students really engage with
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it a lot more. Yeah I haven't gotten to read
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this one yet because it is so new and I wasn't
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able to find it just yet um but I mean RJ Palacio
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is kind of great. and she does she is very well
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known for you know having those themes of inclusivity
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and kindness and such in her stories um so it
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i mean it sounds wonderful and i'm looking forward
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to reading it um i'm probably gonna put this
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one on my order list too like it just sounds
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um like a lovely kind of not too scary halloween
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type story it sounds great love that it's rhyming
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and everything that's Wonderful for younger readers
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who need some gentle cadences there to connect
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with. It sounds great. Yeah, it's it's really
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a great story. And like you said, it's not the
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ghosts aren't scary. They're most of the ghosts
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like in the story, the ghosts pick up like the
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old Halloween costumes that kids have shed as
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Halloween ended. And so like, the ghosts are
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walking, walking around wearing children's Halloween
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costumes and dressed up as silly little things
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and stuff. So yeah, they're definitely not scary.
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It's not going to be one of those ones where
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you have kids going home complaining to parents
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about nightmares or anything like that. It's
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really the theme and the tone is really light
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and fun. And so that's a nice thing to have around
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this time of year for our younger kids. Yeah,
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it sounds great. So I definitely give this book
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a five out of five bookmarks. I think it's great.
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I think everyone should go pick it up and enjoy
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it. And so for a makerspace activity, I think
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it'd be really fun to use the Legos and have
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the kids design either a whole playground or
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just a piece of playground equipment that they
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would like to see a ghost use, that they think
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would be fun for a ghost to use. Because in the
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story, the main character, the ghost king, uses
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his magic to change a normal playground into
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a bigger playground with carousels and stuff
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like that. And so taking a playground and making
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it work for a ghost, what would the kids do?
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How would they make it something that a ghost
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would enjoy and let them be creative and build
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using the Legos? Yeah. That sounds like a lot
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of fun. I like that they're being a lot more
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creative there and getting to use their imaginations
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and building something that would be fun for
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the ghosts to use. I love it. That sounds great.
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Yeah. It's a really good story. Yeah. I'm looking
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forward to reading that one. I really am. Yeah.
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All right, for our library littles management
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tip today, we're going to be talking about an
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organization called First Book. They have a website
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called firstbook .org that you can visit if you
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want to learn more about them. But they are a
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charity that works with publishers to get deeply
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discounted books to children and libraries who
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are in need. So this one is really great if you
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work with children who have lower socioeconomic
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status or who are underprivileged in some way.
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They do, they have something that I use a lot
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called a book bank. That's what they refer to
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it as the book bank. And pretty much if you qualify
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to purchase through them, you can get whole bunch
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of books for just the cost of shipping. So actually
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I just ordered some stuff from First Book last
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week. for our campus book vending machine because
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this year we're giving away books to students
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on their birthdays. So we're going to be giving
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away probably just for birthdays about 650 books
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or so. So we're going to need a lot of books.
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So I bought a bunch of Diary of a Wimpy Kid books
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for our vending machine. It was like a dollar
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a book to have it shipped over here. So that's
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pretty great. To qualify, there is a form that
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you have to fill out that states where your school
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is, name of your school, things like that. It'll
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also ask you the percentage of your students
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who are English language learners and the percentage
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of students who qualify for free and reduced
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lunch. Just to get a general idea of your diversity
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and your The demographics of your students, but
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if you qualify through them like you can get
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a lot of really great things And it isn't just
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books actually There's other things that are
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just related to education. There's a Lot of you
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can buy Legos through them. I got a lot of really
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cheap Legos this last year too. That was like
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I got several boxes of just like and it's just
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a cardboard box filled with random Lego pieces,
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which was amazing and perfect. But it was like,
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I don't remember how much, real cheap, but again
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it's like the cost, it's just the cost of shipping
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because it was part of the book bank. And you
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can also buy like, they have Play -Doh in the
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book bank right now, and I think they have markers,
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like a lot of just random educational things.
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And you do have to check it kind of frequently.
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I try and, they, If you can sign up to get their
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emails and that's what I do just to remind me
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that they exist because There's just a lot of
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things in the library Especially where I'm like
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there we have so many great resources that I'm
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like, I don't know where to go and I get overwhelmed
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and I forget but They do email because I'm on
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their email list About once a week with like
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their new releases or I guess not releases their
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New products that are available and different
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resources that they're offering. You can also
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do like webinars through them. Last week I did
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a Lego webinar about how to use, about playful
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libraries and how to use Legos within the library.
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And it had a really cool idea actually for asking
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students to use Legos to build the covers of
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books and have like their own book covers out
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of just Legos. It was really cute. I'm still
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kind of trying to figure out how I would implement
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that within my library with the amount of time
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I'm allotted and everything. But I just love
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that they did have like, you know, a webinar
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available that was very applicable. Just had
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to register and that was it. It was totally free
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and did give some really good resources. So the
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name of that organization again is First Book.
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and their website is firstbook .org. First Book
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Marketplace is the name of the website where
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you can purchase from them. Yeah, it's just like
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I said, you do have to check through kind of
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frequently because it does their stock changes
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a lot depending on what publishers give them
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because they partner with publishers and then
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when publishers have overstock or when they're
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switching out books or something or they just
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didn't sell a whole lot of something they'll
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give it to First Book so that First Book can
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disperse it amongst, you know, amongst children
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and libraries who need those resources. So they're
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not just wasted. So I absolutely love them. I
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think they're great. And there are several people
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at my campus who use First Book as well. So highly
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recommended if you haven't checked them out yet.
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Please do. Sounds amazing. This is not one of
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the things that I have taken the time to participate
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in before, but it sounds awesome. And the fact
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that it's not just books, but other things like
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Legos and Play -Doh and stuff like that just
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makes it all the more valuable a resource. So
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I'm definitely going to have to set up an account
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for my campus and see what I might qualify for
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and what we can do. Because yeah, this would
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be a really great opportunity for a lot of librarians
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and a lot of campuses that have lower income
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students and just getting kind of books into
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their hands would be amazing. Yeah and they do
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have occasionally they'll have grants that you
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can apply for usually the grants are for like
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a hundred dollars each and they're sponsored
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by Usually I've seen Pizza Hut and Build -A -Bear
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are the ones that sponsor the most grants. To
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get those I've just filled out a form and they'll
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ask you like what are you gonna do with the money
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and usually I tell them, well not usually, primarily
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I go to First Book to give books to kids. That's
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like what I use them for. It's just giving free
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books out to kids because it's all brand new
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stuff and I don't want to give If I'm gonna gift
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a student with a book, like I want it to be a
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nice book. I don't, I mean, I will give second,
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there's nothing wrong with giving secondhand
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or something that looks a little bit more tattered,
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but especially working with kids who are underprivileged,
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a lot of them, if they have stuff, it is gonna
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be secondhand already. And I, to me, it's important
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that they get something that's brand new every
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now and then, like, because they, I value them
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as a person and I think they deserve new things
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and to have nice things and then also so that
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they can see like that this matters this is something
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we need to take care of like literacy matters
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taking care of our books matter so those are
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the two reasons why I want to give new things
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so that's why I go to them so often but anyway
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I started talking about grants Yes, you can get
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grants through them every now and then, not all
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the time. You kind of have to pay attention for
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that too. Again, that's why I do the email list.
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But I've never been rejected for a grant from
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them. And they also will randomly do, you know,
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a code for just free books. So this last week
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when I ordered Wimpy Kid, it was because I got
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a $35 free, like, I guess a coupon. where you
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just spent, you know, $35 for something for free.
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So I ended up getting the Wimpy Kids, I think
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were a little over a dollar each for shipping.
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So I got like 30 books. It did have taxes on
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it because I personally was the one paying for
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it because they're not a vendor of the school.
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So since I was paying for it, I did have to pay
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taxes. So I ended up paying like $3 to get those
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like 30 books shipped here. And that was it.
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Which i'm okay with That's pretty awesome Yes,
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yes it was And everybody loves wimpy kid. Well,
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the bigger kids do anyway I know our littles
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i'm talking about wimpy kid when our littles
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aren't ready for that yet, but that's okay There
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was also some pigeon books on there It was a
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pigeon neck Uh -huh. That is good for our littles
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Yeah, there was a pigeon I don't remember the
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title. It wasn't like a Pigeon pigeon book like
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it was like an activity It's like an activity
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book of some kind. It wasn't a traditional like
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don't let the pigeon drive the bus book. I don't
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remember the name of it. Anyway, some activity
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book. It was good. It was a good deal. So I got
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a lot of those because that is good for all ages.
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And I think even my like fourth and fifth graders
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would like a pigeon book sometimes. So yeah,
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that's awesome. Yeah. Yep. I'm definitely going
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to have to go through and set that account up.
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start looking at what they've got available because
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this would be great for getting books in the
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hands of kids especially like I have a lot of
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kids like my campus should be title one but isn't
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and so like I have kids who the only books that
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they have at home are the ones they check out
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from the library and so to be able to get some
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more books that they can keep and have at home
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and stuff like that this sounds like a great
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opportunity to to be able to do some of that
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It is. It's good stuff. Go check it out. All
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right. Well, the next book that we're going to
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talk to talk about today is Five More Sleeps
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Till Halloween. It was published by Fuel and
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Friends. Is that how you say that? Firewell Fuel.
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Hmm. One of those. It was published in 2024.
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The author is Jimmy Fallon and the author, the
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author is Jimmy Fallon. The illustrator is Rich
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T .S. I think that's how you say his last name.
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This book is not on any awards or lists, but
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it's a fun read. The blurb from Jimmy Fallon's
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publisher's website reads, Emmy and Grammy Award
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winner Jimmy Fallon is the author of number one
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New York Times bestselling children's books.
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Your baby's first word will be dada. Everything
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is mama. This is baby. Nana loves you more. Papa
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doesn't do anything. Five more sleeps till Christmas,
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five more sleeps till Halloween, and Con Pollo,
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a bilingual playtime adventure. Fallon lives
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in New York with his wife Nancy, their two daughters
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Winnie and Franny, and their dog Gary. And that
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also, that blurb list included a list of all
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of the books that he's had published. I do love,
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honestly, that the author history only included
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his writing and only had like things that he's
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done as far as like books that he's published
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even though it is Jimmy Fallon and obviously
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he has done a lot more than published books and
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but I mean that's what he's known for is his
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books right I know right I love that they focused
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on that though that made me happy and then the
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illustrator again from the publisher's website
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because neither of them have websites dedicated
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to publishing or anything in the publishing world.
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So the publisher does, though, and they want
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you to know all about them. So Rich Diaz is a
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designer, an illustrator, and a senior creative
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director at Macmillan Children's Publishing Group
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in New York City. He has designed hundreds of
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book covers and has illustrated several picture
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books, including Five More Sleeps Till Christmas.
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He resides in Glen Ridge, New Jersey with his
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wife and two sons. And when I looked up his page
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on the publisher's website, like Yeah, like they
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showed pictures of all the book covers that he's
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illustrated and yeah, it is, uh -huh. Hundreds,
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hundreds indeed. He's done a lot. But he does
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primarily illustrate just book covers. And I
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think when you read this book, you can kind of,
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I see that, I see that. Yeah. So for the book
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summary for this, it's... pretty much it follows
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a young boy who's having a five -day countdown
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to Halloween in anticipation of the holiday.
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It's written in rhyme, so it sounds like a long
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-form poem. I really love the cadence of it and
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just the flow of the words. It's fabulous for
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young children. Like I was saying, as far as
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the pictures go, when you read it, I can totally
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tell that the guy who illustrated it does primarily
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do book covers. Like, the entire page is covered
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from, like, the whole thing. There's absolutely
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no blank space in this book at all, which can
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get a little bit overwhelming at times. It is
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bright and it is colorful, but it does get a
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little overwhelming sometimes with all of the,
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like, just because it's all covered. I do like
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that between like it'll say you know five more
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sleeps till Halloween and it'll have a little
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bit about it and then when you turn the page
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it'll have a big number four because now there's
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only four more sleeps till Halloween and I like
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that it like emphasizes how many more sleeps
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it is until we get to the big day. There's lots
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of references to all the Halloween traditions
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in here so like it goes through you know trick
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-or -treating and dressing up and all the decorations
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that you would see and what kind of monsters
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you would see and I do think all the kids in
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the world are going to be able to relate to counting
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down to the big day of any kind. I do as far
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as like reading it in the school library goes
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I'm not sure I would there's a lot of kids who
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don't celebrate Halloween especially there's
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you know celebrating specific holidays is kind
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of like hit or miss you know there's most kids
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are like gonna be okay with celebrating the traditional
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American things but Halloween especially I feel
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like that's one where more people are gonna opt
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out of that. This book isn't really scary at
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all, but I do think as far as reading it at home
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to my own children, this would 100 % have been
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a favorite of me as a mom reading this to my
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kids when they were younger. absolutely I could
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see us reading this like over and over and over
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again and I think this would be a great read
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for a public library where it's a little bit
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easier for people to opt in and out and you can
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do a little bit more of like maybe you do you
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know different holidays and maybe you do one
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one you know specific halloween read aloud and
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this would be it and then the next one you could
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do like dia de los muertos or something and do
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um you have a little bit more freedom there But
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a school one where the kids are like just kind
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of stuck there and like we're doing this with
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everybody Honestly, I'm not sure I would do it,
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but I still really like it a lot so I probably
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give it like overall a four out of five because
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it isn't gonna be for everybody because not everybody
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does Halloween and Like specific Halloween. I
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would still do like usually around Halloween.
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I do do like I said that I do read books that
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are like Halloween adjacent with ghosts and such
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and I you know The book that you talked about
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would do that 100 % of the school library this
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one I'm not sure I would but I still really liked
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a lot. So anyway four and a five bookmarks for
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me And it's still a good one. So yeah. Yeah Yeah,
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I enjoyed it. It's a lot of fun. I agree that
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you can see that DS rich DS is the like a cover
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kind of guy because each page looks like a giant
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splash page for a cover. It's very intricate
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and very detailed and there's a lot going on.
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You can look for certain things that keep popping
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up throughout it. His art style is really great.
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It's a lot on every page, I agree. But some kids
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will really find that interesting to be able
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to look for all those little pieces and stuff.
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For others, it's gonna be... really distracting,
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but it's a cute, very, very cute story. It's
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a lot of fun. Um, you can actually also, I, the
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first time I looked at it, I did it through,
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um, YouTube because they have a Barnes and Noble
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reading, uh, and Jimmy Fallon is the one that
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actually reads it on YouTube. So you can do it
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that way too. If, um, any of our listeners are
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interested, that's a cool way to be introduced
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to it. So it's Jimmy Fallon actually reading
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his own book. But yeah, the pictures are pretty
00:30:24.259 --> 00:30:28.119
great. Honestly, that's the kind of thing that
00:30:28.119 --> 00:30:29.799
we need to think about that I didn't as much
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is like, would this be good for a public school
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during Halloween? And I agree. Most of the time
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when I do Halloween books, they're not specific
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to Halloween. They're like monster books or ghost
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books. And we do it around that time, but don't
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specifically choose. to do like Halloween books.
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So that wasn't something that I thought about,
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but yeah, you're right. Maybe, maybe not for
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a read aloud, still a good book to have on the
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library shelf and had let kids pick out to read.
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Cause then it's their choice. Yeah. I like it
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a lot. It was fun. I do actually, now that you
00:31:14.160 --> 00:31:17.579
mentioned that, I forgot to say that I do own
00:31:17.579 --> 00:31:22.650
this in my library. I do have it, but It's gonna
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stay on the shelf and available for checkout.
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And when a kid checks it out, I'm like, it's
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about Halloween. Is that cool with you? Yes.
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Okay, cool. Have a good day. Even just pull it
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out and have it on display so they can see it.
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Yeah, that's where it is right now. Even though
00:31:41.180 --> 00:31:43.519
we're a month away from Halloween it's the first
00:31:43.519 --> 00:31:46.079
big holiday and kids are getting excited and
00:31:46.079 --> 00:31:48.180
they're already asking for all the Halloween
00:31:48.180 --> 00:31:52.099
stuff and I do have a display already of a few
00:31:52.099 --> 00:31:56.160
Halloween books and this is on there and like
00:31:56.160 --> 00:31:58.539
I'm gonna let kids check it out bring it home
00:31:58.539 --> 00:32:01.579
it's it's a good book great one to read at home
00:32:01.579 --> 00:32:05.039
so yeah it's a good one for the library maybe
00:32:05.039 --> 00:32:08.380
not for a read -a -lab yeah but that's okay it's
00:32:08.380 --> 00:32:12.599
still good And then for a makerspace activity
00:32:12.599 --> 00:32:14.920
for this one, I mean, really anything Halloween
00:32:14.920 --> 00:32:19.420
related because it's all Halloween. My favorite
00:32:19.420 --> 00:32:22.039
Halloween activity that I think I've talked about
00:32:22.039 --> 00:32:25.200
on this before because I love it, but I love
00:32:25.200 --> 00:32:28.099
it, so I'm gonna say it again anyway, is for
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the younger kids, I really like to get like a
00:32:30.819 --> 00:32:36.750
smaller pumpkins, like five or six like pie pumpkins,
00:32:37.089 --> 00:32:42.500
not huge. and expo markers and let the kids draw
00:32:42.500 --> 00:32:45.440
their own jack -o -lanterns because you can mark
00:32:45.440 --> 00:32:50.819
up the pumpkins as much as you want and then
00:32:50.819 --> 00:32:52.960
you can wipe them off with a baby wipe. It's
00:32:52.960 --> 00:32:56.299
really easy to clean off. Kids absolutely love
00:32:56.299 --> 00:33:00.140
it. It's great for fine motor skills and practicing
00:33:00.140 --> 00:33:05.259
any kind of writing and just encouraging just
00:33:05.259 --> 00:33:08.019
all that wonderful writing that they need to
00:33:08.019 --> 00:33:11.880
do and really hate to do. So that is going to
00:33:11.880 --> 00:33:16.039
be my makerspace activity for the week of Halloween.
00:33:16.839 --> 00:33:20.079
I don't know what book I'll do yet but like this
00:33:20.079 --> 00:33:22.319
one would have fit in with that one real well
00:33:22.319 --> 00:33:25.019
if you wanted to do that. I love that. I love
00:33:25.019 --> 00:33:27.460
that idea. I need to do that this year because
00:33:27.460 --> 00:33:29.500
I think a lot of my students would really enjoy
00:33:29.500 --> 00:33:33.420
it. I agree. That would be a lot of fun and it's
00:33:33.700 --> 00:33:37.470
easy. It's not like let them kind of decorate
00:33:37.470 --> 00:33:41.589
yeah yeah super fast and easy kids get to be
00:33:41.589 --> 00:33:46.180
creative with it all the things yeah i love that
00:33:46.180 --> 00:33:50.400
low prep low prep is my favorite yes especially
00:33:50.400 --> 00:33:53.759
like we said october gets busy so low prep things
00:33:53.759 --> 00:33:57.920
are very important during october low prep but
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still themed and fun there you go All right.
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out that I'm basically the crypt keeper. I am
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so old. It's not even funny anymore. What did
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you do? What happened? What do you mean? So JD,
00:35:08.570 --> 00:35:11.730
the other night, Thursday night, I guess, um,
00:35:11.730 --> 00:35:13.469
after band practice gets in the car and he's
00:35:13.469 --> 00:35:16.699
like that. What schools did you teach at again?
00:35:17.389 --> 00:35:23.159
So I told him and he was like, yeah, Mr. Davidson,
00:35:23.219 --> 00:35:27.519
his, uh, percussion director just got married
00:35:27.519 --> 00:35:32.300
this summer. He's like, yeah. Um, his wife is
00:35:32.300 --> 00:35:34.849
the percussion director over. at one of the other
00:35:34.849 --> 00:35:37.150
high schools in the district. I was like, okay,
00:35:37.900 --> 00:35:44.659
yeah, you taught her. And then I had to go and
00:35:44.659 --> 00:35:49.320
look and yeah, my second year teaching, she was
00:35:49.320 --> 00:36:03.250
in my fourth grade class. That's fun. Wow. Yup.
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Congratulations. Cause that means I taught her
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about 17 years ago. Wow. Yeah.
