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Weekend Edition - Saturday, February 26, 2005 · Daniel Pinkwater and Scott Simon are joined by Daniel's cunning canine Lulu to discuss Three Stories You Can Read to Your Dog by local High Falls Resident Sara Swan Miller. Listen to Daniel, Scott and Lulu read this charming story which is one of the books in a wonderful series of Stories You Can Read to Your Dog/Cat/Teddy Bear... Click to hear the story read aloud: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4513343&ft=1&f=4506027
The following comments appeared on The P-Zone after the above radio show aired:
February 26th, 2005
From: Sara Swan Miller
I want to thank Daniel for reading from my book, Three Stories You Can Read to Your Dog, and for your kind words about it. Too bad listeners couldn't see the great illustrations. This is the tenth anniversary of the publication of the book. Since then there have been more: Three Stories You Can Read to Your Cat, Three More Stories You Can Read to Your Dog, Three More Stories You Can Read to Your Cat, and Three Stories You Can Read to Your Teddy Bear. Thanks to you and Lulu the sales ranking for Three Stories...Dog went from #160,725 to #65 in a few hours. And the others moved way up, too. Just goes to show that listeners listen to you! Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Daniel replies:
We had SO much fun with that book! Lulu really was looking at the pictures and enjoying it as we recorded the radio piece. I think quite a few of the illustrations are on the NPR website.

Mrs. Spada, Baxter & Reilly read Wild About Books

MAY IS GET CAUGHT READING MONTH!

We will be creating a " Read to Your Pet" display.

Submit your favorite photo via email to Mrs. Spada or bring to school.

All photos will be put on display on the LMC Bulletin Boards.

Staff photos will be posted on the BLOG.

I wonder what book Dr. Cassel will read to her pet?

http://www.getcaughtreading.org/index.htm

CONGRATULATIONS TO GALE VANBAAREN:
SAM'S CLUB 2006 TEACHER OF THE YEAR!!!
WAY TO GO GALE ...NICE PRESENTATION AND GENEROUS
GIFT FROM SAM'S CLUB: $1,000.

Tiger Woods' father died yesterday. Earl Woods was Tiger's first Golf teacher and a terrific Dad. Earl got Tiger to appear on the Mike Douglas Show at age 2, where he putted against Bob Hope! Rest in Peace.

The movie version of the Terrific book HOOT by Carl Hiassen is coming out May 5. Check out the great website for all kinds of cool stuff http://hootmovie.com/

Grade 2 - 3 Read Aloud
From Kirkus Reviews: The two-time Caldecott winner continues the didactic vein of Just a Dream (1990). Captain Hope records the eerie events during a voyage of the Rita Anne. His crew is hard-working and ``accomplished in other ways''--they enjoy reading, music, and storytelling. Even so, after they stop on an island and bring back a mysterious rock with one smooth face that gives off a ``peculiar light,'' the men do nothing but watch it. Mesmerized, they sit transfixed until they are transformed into apes who don't even help when the ship is disabled in a storm. So, fortunately, is the stone, and Hope finds that the men are gradually returned to themselves as he reads to them. The artist's elegantly structured, richly shadowed paintings suggest more enigmatic depth than the story delivers, while the starkly boxed text interrupts the visual flow of each spread. Even so, a handsome setting for a valuable message, presented with some imagination and humor. (Picture book. 4-10) -- Copyright ©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

READ ALOUD GRADE K - 1
Book Description: When Mama Bear decides her family spends too much time in front of the TV, she bans it for a week. Then the Bear family finds other ways to have fun and keep busy, so they watch less when TV is allowed again--and they don't even miss it.

Grade 3-6 Read Aloud for Turn Off TV Week:
From School Library Journal: A cautionary tale that will appeal to anyone who believes in the power and magic of books. When the town of Triple Creek first built a huge TV tower, Aunt Chip took to her bed, promising, "there will be consequences." Now, 50 years later, the townspeople are so obsessed with their televisions that they are oblivious to everything else. Of course, people still "use" books-as furniture, to fix crumbling walls, to patch up tattered roofs-but no one knows how to read. Finally, Aunt Chip, who used to be the town librarian, pops out of bed to do something about it. Beginning with her nephew, Eli, she teaches the children to read. Hungry for books, they take them from wherever they can be found. When Eli and his friends pluck a copy of Moby Dick from the dam, they unleash a wall of water that destroys the TV tower and changes the future of the town. A master storyteller, Polacco flavors this modern fable with the language and cadence of a traditional tall tale. Filled with amusing details, interesting characters, and unexpected twists, this enjoyable story clearly makes its point without seeming heavy-handed. In perfect harmony with the text, the illustrations add dimension and resonance to the words. Enslaved by TV, Triple Creek is colored in dismal grays and imprisoned by imposing power lines. Afterwards, the town is blooming, bustling, and brightly colored. Watch out. Polacco's passion for books and reading is contagious.?Joy Fleishhacker, New York Public LibraryCopyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Check out this Cool Video of a Guy Juggling to the Beatles via Google
Bliss Diss - Juggler 5 ball routine

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. -Groucho Marx

Television is a chewing gum for the eyes. -Frank Lloyd Wright

Break Free of TV-
TV-Turnoff Network

TV-Turnoff Week 2006
April 24 - 30, 2006

Our National Library Week Staff Trivia Contest Winner: Ms. Susan Rosen
Congratulations Sue!

Dr. Cassel reads to 1C:
Atlantic by G. Brian Karas.
They were a terrific audience and really enjoyed having "the owner" of the school read to them!

MYSTERY READER: 4D

Today Elmo did a fantastic job reading Hudson Talbot's Sword and the Stone to 6W. It is a wonderful story of Arthur becoming king and Elmo read straight for 40 minutes to an enthralled audience. Then Leah did a wonderful job reading to KC a clever story Tiny's Big Adventure. Everyone really enjoyed having "a big kid" read aloud!!

MYSTERY READER

reads to KC

Mystery Reader

reads to 6W

Whew-busy day Monday with great readers. Zach read Arthur's pet business / Marc Brown. Boston : Little, Brown c1990 to Mrs. VanBaaren's class. They really enyed it-GREAT Job! Evan read Alexander and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. Illustrated by Ray Cruz. New York, Atheneum,1972 to 1H. He really knew this book and read it with FEELING-terrific!