Tandem Team

  • Mindy
    Mindy is a librarian (MLS '01) with a background in working with teens. She loves to read all over the map and has been blogging about books since 2003.
  • Vanessa
    Vanessa is a teacher who is nearing completion of her MS Ed. degree from the University of Minnesota. She especially enjoys humorous picture books.
  • Anne
    Anne is a librarian (MLS '02) who has worked in publishing and libraries for 11 years. She loves YA fantasy, historical fiction, and chick lit.
  • Kelly
    Kelly is a teacher with experience in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, and abroad. She is always looking for books with classroom connections!
  • Emily
    Emily is a librarian (MLS '02) who has worked in school libraries and a children’s literature collection at a university. She particularly enjoys realistic fiction and stories about traveling.
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November 13, 2007

88th Annual Children’s Book Week – Rise Up Reading!

Since 1919 communities around the country have been dedicated to celebrating the love of reading and spreading the word about children’s literature.  Join librarians, students, teachers, families, and booksellers nationwide to help celebrate Children’s Book Week.  Need some ideas?  Visit the Children’s Book Council website!  You will find lots of activities from holding a Children’s Book Week party where you dress up as your favorite character (see 10/30/2007 post for costume ideas) to organizing a school-wide Read-In where EVERYONE in your school reads silently at the same place and time – school staff included. 

Paperbag Pippi Drummerhoff

Here at Tandem, we had a discussion about some of our favorite books.  Titles including The Paper Bag Princess, Pippi Longstocking, and Drummer Hoff were a few titles mentioned.  The general consensus was that there were too many great books to choose from, we each couldn’t just pick one!  Here are a few favorites from a couple booklovers at Tandem:

Mindy said:

"Before there was the adorable little bunny in Not a Box making a plain old cardboardChristina box into anything he could imagine, there was Christina Katerina.  Originally published in hardcover in 1971, Christina Katerina and the Box has been a childhood favorite of mine for years.  As a kid, I loved watching the box transform from a castle to a clubhouse to a racecar to whatever else Christina Katerina could dream up.  A new generation can get to know this imaginative heroine in paperback or Tandem-bound versions of this classic picture book."

Kristi added:

Ramona"My favorite childhood book(s) are the Ramona Quimby books. I loved them all for their realistic way of telling great stories. I will never forget many of the illustrations and descriptions used in the books.  The descriptions of Ramona’s feelings are so real, for example, Ramona cracking an egg on her head and feeling so upset when she had to sit in the nurse’s office afterwards and heard the adults calling her a “nuisance.” The feeling of adults not understanding you was perfectly captured in that story."

Don’t forget!  Next year and going forward, Children’s Book Week will be moving to May and will be celebrated in the first or second week of that month.

Posted at 10:38 AM in Book Round Ups, Vanessa's posts |