StoryCraft Ages 6-9

While storytelling is a great favorite of preschoolers, many elementary age children are more drawn to crafts and other activities. StoryCraft is an award-winning library program that combines storytelling with crafts in an exciting and engaging activity for children in first through third grades. Each one-hour program includes storytelling, a craft, movement, activities, music, and discussion. This collection of StoryCraft programs presents 50 fun and educational theme-based sessions. Each includes suggestions for promotion, music, crafts, activities, and stories. The sessions also include bibliographies to help direct young readers toward additional reading, as well as diagrams, detailed instructions, and supply lists for the crafts. The themes range from a Jungle Safari to Math Mayhem to a Western Roundup, all encouraging children to enjoy reading in a variety of ways. Each session has plenty of suggestions, so that the program can be customized. Helpful Hints for implementing the program can help any librarian, volunteer, or parent turn a ho-hum storytime into a dazzling StoryCraft time.
Storycraft: 50 theme-based programs combining storytelling, activities and crafts for children in grades 1-3, Ages 6, 7, 8, 9

By Martha Seif Simpson, Lynne Perrigo

Illustrated by Lynne Perrigo

Edition: illustrated

Published by McFarland & Co., 2001

Original from the University of Michigan

Digitized Oct 30, 2008

ISBN 078640891X, 9780786408917

283 pages

A collection of popular, child-tested ...

... programs. Themes include dragons, cowboys and cowgirls, kites, and magic, and are arranged alphabetically by title of program not content ("What's Cooking?" is last rather than under "food"). Each ... more » unit includes suggestions for a bulletin board, background music, an opener, stories, a group-participation activity, a craft, and numerous titles to booktalk. Step-by-step instructions for presenting the programs are offered, from promotion to cleanup, as well as "Helpful Hints." Craft instructions are divided into two parts-preparations to be done ahead of time and what the children do during the program. The authors warn that these programs are labor intensive and suggest two librarians in addition to utilizing volunteers. However, many ideas could be simplified, though the authors do not provide suggestions for doing so. A must for public librarians looking for programs to keep kids coming to the library after they've graduated from storytime.-Shauna Yusko, King County Library System, Bellevue, WA

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The Magic School Bus Book List

Books Reading Levels from Grades 3.1 to 4.6.
List was completed in 2007.
http://hollygrovees.wcpss.net/pdfs/magicschoolbus.pdf
Library Call Numbers included.

The Magic School Bus At the Waterworks Ages 8-12

PREVIEW

The classic title that started the award-winning series! Join Ms. Frizzle and her students as they follow the trail of water, from its sky-high source to the school bathroom sink on this wet and wild fieldtrip. After parking the school bus on a cloud and shrinking to raindrop size, Ms. Frizzle's class gets to see the waterworks from the water's point of view.

The Magic School Bus At the Waterworks

By Joanna Cole, Bruce Degen

Illustrated by Bruce Degen

Edition: reprint, illustrated, revised

Published by Scholastic Inc., 1988

ISBN 0590403605, 9780590403603

39 pages Ages 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

The Magic School Bus Inside the Earth Ages 8-12

PREVIEW

Part of the best-selling science series ever! Filled with interesting illustrations and dialog on information every kid should know about what the earth is made of. Follow the Magic Bus and these favorite characters to a journey inside the earth.

The Magic School Bus Inside the Earth
By Joanna Cole, Gary Ed. Cole, Bruce Degen

Illustrated by Bruce Degen

Edition: reprint, illustrated, revised

Published by Scholastic Inc., 1989

ISBN 0590407600, 9780590407601

40 pages Ages 8, 9, 01, 11, 12

In a companion to the same team's ...

... imaginative The Magic School Bus at the Waterworks, Ms. Frizzle conducts her class on a fact-finding mission into caves, down toward the earth's center, and to an erupting volcano. There's so much ... more » going on in these pages--mini-characterizations, reports, vocabulary, hilarious byplay--that the facts may be submerged by the fun; but for those levelheaded enough to assimilate it amid the hilarity, there's a good dose of basic geology here.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR
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See also: Rocks & Minerals, Dave's Down-to-Earth Rock Shop

Rocks and Minerals Ages 7-12

Explains how rocks are made from minerals, and provides descriptions of specific rocks and mineralsincluding their shape, appearance, and location. Full-color illustrations, for notes.
Which CRYSTAL can grow as big as a person?
How can PLANTS turn into rocks?
What is the GRAND CANYON made of?
Rocks and Minerals

By Paul M. A. Willis, Willis

Edition: illustrated

Published by National Geographic, 2001

ISBN 0792265785, 9780792265788

80 pages Ages 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
See also: Dave's Down-to-Earth Rock Shop and The Magic School Bus Inside the Earth

Guide for Horse Loonies: Practical Advice and Hints Ages 7-12

By Eeerika Häkkinen, Tiina Jäntti, Marja Guercin, Desmond O'Rourke, Øyvind Sagåsen

Published by Stabenfeldt, 2005
Ages 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Handling your Horse the Horsey Way...
How would your horse like you to treat him. This handy book for horse loonies gives you the answer to this question and to lots of others. Read more about the way horses think and how they want you to act around them. There's also a questionnaire where you can test yourself to find out what kind of horse person you are!
Lots of fun and useful reading!

The Horse in Sport

THE HORSE IN SPORT

A comprehensive look at equestrian sporting activities from rodeo to racing.

The Horse in Sport

http://web.archive.org/web/20060115094234/www.imh.org/imh/his/

Horse Breeds of the World

A comprehensive look at 95 of the world's equestrian breeds.

Horse Breeds of the World

http://web.archive.org/web/20060111101314/www.imh.org/imh/bw/home2.html

Kentucky Horse Park & International Museum of the Horse

Kentucky Horse Park
Lexington, KY
http://web.archive.org/web/20051231181158/www.kyhorsepark.com/khp/

The International Museum of the Horse, Kentucky Horse Park
is located 4 miles north of Lexington at I-75, Exit 120.
For more information on the Park or Museum
write, call, or email:

The Kentucky Horse Park or
The International Museum of the Horse
4089 Iron Works Parkway
Lexington, Kentucky 40511
Phone (859) 233-4303, Toll Free (800) 678-8813, Fax (859) 254-0253

ON-LINE EXHIBITS FROM THE
INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE HORSE

http://web.archive.org/web/20060109233237/www.imh.org/imh/exh1.html

Virtual Art Gallery

http://web.archive.org/web/20051219152648/www.imh.org/imh/gallery.html

Tolkien's World: Paintings of Middle-Earth

"This edition published by arrangement with HarperCollins Publishers"--T.p. verso.Tolkien's World: Paintings of Middle-Earth

By J. R. R. Tolkien, Tolkien

Edition: illustrated

Published by Fine Communications, 1998

ISBN 1567312489, 9781567312485

144 pages

Caldecott Medal Internet Activities

"Includes: Internet activities for 19 Caldecott Award-Winning Books"--Cover, pg. [4].

Caldecott on the Net: Reading and Internet Activities

By Ru Story-Huffman, NetLibrary, Inc, Inc NetLibrary

Edition: 2

Published by Upstart Books, 2002

ISBN 0585428255, 9780585428253

96 pages Ages 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15

Caldecott Medal Winners Web Page

http://www.embracingthechild.org/caldecott.html

The Caldecott Medal was named in honor of nineteenth-century English illustrator Randolph Caldecott. This page has been created as an online resource to introduce biographical information about each illustrator as well as descriptions and reviews of each of the Caldecott Medal Books. Your contributions are welcome.