School Library Journal articles from November 2004

School Library Journal archives from November 2004

A golden opportunity: celebrating the past and looking ahead on our 50th anniversary.(Editorial)
November 1, 2004... In the fall of 1954, a magazine called Junior Libraries emerged from the pages of its parent publication, Library Journal. It wasn't until 1961 that Junior Libraries changed its name to School Library Journal (SLJ). A half century later,...

What reading decline? Survey excludes different categories of literature.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
November 1, 2004... "WHAT'S TO BLAME?" SLJ ASKS, FOR THE "decline" in reading literature reported in the National Endowment for the Art's (NEA) document, "Reading at Risk" ("Librarians Respond to Decline in Reading," September 2004, p. 17). It is not clear...

Avoiding stereotypes.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
November 1, 2004... THIS LETTER IS IN RESPONSE TO "YOU Go, Girl!" (July 2004, pp. 38-40). While I admire the author's commitment to fitness, I am concerned with some of the stereotypes she seems to perpetuate, both about librarians and about overweight...

Perpetuating a myth.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
November 1, 2004... I AM JUST BEGINNING TO READ MY APRIL 2004 issue of SLJ despite all that free time you ascribe to my position: "no weekends, no summers." ("More Pay for Public Librarians," p. 13). My first reaction of disbelief turned rapidly to outrage. I cast...

Matt the Rat.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
November 1, 2004... IT WAS AN UNFORTUNATE SURPRISE TO read the review for Lorenzo Liberto's Matt the Rat (Harvest Sun, 2004; September p. 197). There should be no place in a respectable publication for the cynical and derisive language that was exhibited in the...

Calendar: November 2004.(Calendar)
November 1, 2004... November 9004 November 10-12. West Virginia Library Association's 87th Annual Conference, Roanoke, VA. Local author, Sara Pritchard, recipient of the 2002 Katharine Bakeless Nason Literary Publication Prize in Fiction, will read from her...

E-rate funding still up in the air: schools, libraries are left in the dark about discounted funds for Internet service.(news)
November 1, 2004... It looks like most schools and libraries won't know how much e-rate funding they're getting in 2004 until the end of November--at the earliest. As a result, school districts and public libraries will have to postpone paying telephone and...

ALA urges support for the SAFE Act; little noticed bipartisan bill would add checks and balances to the Patriot Act.(news)(Security and Freedom Ensured Act )
November 1, 2004... With so much attention being focused on the Patriot Act, you may have missed the little noticed Security and Freedom Ensured Act (SAFE), a bipartisan bill authored by Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Larry Craig (R-ID) that is designed to impose...

'SLJ' gets new VP, group publisher.(vice president)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... William McGorry has been appointed executive vice president and publisher of Reed Business Information's (RBI) Publishing Group, which includes School Library Journal (SU), Library Journal (LJ), and Publishers Weekly (PW). As part of a...

Library funding still unclear.(short takes)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Library supporters are awaiting a congressional vote on library funding for FY 2005, following an October proposal by the Senate Appropriations Committee to fund Library Services and Technology Act programs at $223.5 million. Although the House...

Laura Bush grants now available.(short takes)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... If more than 90 percent of the students in your elementary, middle, or high school receive free or reduced lunches, you qualify for up to $5,000 in grants to purchase books for your school library. The Laura Bush Foundation for America's...

Book reviews for sale: authors, publishers can now pay Kirkus to review their works.(news)
November 1, 2004... How much credibility would you give a book review that was paid for by its publisher? Kirkus Reviews, an influential journal that librarians, booksellers, and publishers turn to for tough, unbiased reviews, has launched Kirkus Discoveries, a...

Searching for a sign.(news)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Some 85,000 book lovers descended on the National Mall in Washington, DC, on October 9 to attend the 2004 National Book Festival. Organized and sponsored by the Library of Congress and hosted by First Lady Laura Bush, the event featured 11...

ALSC Institute tackles big issues; a power-packed program program in MN spotlights the latest research and trends.(news)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... What role can libraries play in reaching out to those who live in poverty? Jodi Pfarr, a transitional housing manager in Minneapolis and national speaker of the educational consulting firm "aha!Process," addressed this issue in an interactive...

John Wood makes room to read; former Microsoft executive ditched his job to build libraries, fight illiteracy in the Third World.(news)
November 1, 2004... It was on a Himalayan mountaintop in the mid-1990s that millionaire Microsoft executive John Wood discovered his true calling. While trekking through Nepal's Annapurna Circuit, he met a local teacher, who invited him to tour a village school....

Would you pay $80 for a library card? County residents in WA protest excessive library fees; petition for levy on upcoming ballot.(news)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Imagine paying as much as $80 to use each library in town? That's what Mickey Bambrick forks over for library books at the Mount Vernon City Library to homeschool her five-year old son, Kaleb. Since the city libraries in Skagit County, WA, are...

Fargo, ND: the parents of a fourth-grade student at Centennial Elementary School have asked that the young adult novel Mick Harte Was Here (Knopf, 1995) by Barbara Park be removed from the school library due to its inappropriate themes and language.(Censorship Roundup)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Fargo, ND: The parents of a fourth-grade student at Centennial Elementary School have asked that the young adult novel Mick Harte Was Here (Knopf, 1995) by Barbara Park be removed from the school library due to its inappropriate themes and...

Mesa, AZ: an explicit book about sex for teenage girls was recently removed from bookshelves at Gilbert, Desert Ridge, and Mesquite high schools, after the mother of a 16-year-old girl complained to a local TV station about Deal With It!(Censorship Roundup)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Mesa, AZ: An explicit book about sex for teenage girls was recently removed from bookshelves at Gilbert, Desert Ridge, and Mesquite high schools, after the mother of a 16-year-old girl complained to a local TV station about Deal With It! A...

Mesquite, TX: school officials at Pirrung Elementary School are reviewing Alice the Brave (Atheneum, 1995) by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, after the mother of a fifth-grade student asked that it be removed from the district's school libraries due to its sexual references.(Censorship Roundup)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Mesquite, TX: School officials at Pirrung Elementary School are reviewing Alice the Brave (Atheneum, 1995) by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, after the mother of a fifth-grade student asked that it be removed from the district's school libraries due...

The Roald Dahl Museum: www.roalddahlmuseum.org.(Site of the Month)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Though the Roald Dahl Museum and Storytelling Centre won't open until June 2005, you can visit its new Web site for a unique look at the life and work of the popular children's author. The Museum, located in the English village of...

The Wikipedia wars: school librarian sparks fight over free online resource.(Tech Knowledge)
November 1, 2004... It all started with a classroom argument. Susan Stagnitta, a librarian at Liverpool (NY) High School, recalls her students debating the merits of Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia created and edited entirely by volunteer contributors....

'Bootylicious' shakes up OED.(Tech Knowledge)(Oxford English Dictionary )(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Bootylicious, a term that originated in a Destiny's Child song, will appear in the revised, third edition of the Oxford English Dictionary Online (www.OED.com).The entry, which refers to a sexually attractive and shapely woman, is just one of...

Cyber ethics 101.(Tech Knowledge)
November 1, 2004... The American Library Association (ALA) is creating a curriculum to help librarians teach students about their rights and responsibilities when. it comes to using copyrighted materials. "Librarians are worried about this issue," says Carrie...

Olympus Camedia C-5060 Wide Zoom: digital camera.(Test Drive)(Product/Service Evaluation)
November 1, 2004... Olympus America, 2 Corporate Center Drive, P.O. Box 9058, Melville, NY 11747. (631) 844-5000 www.olympusamerica.com Windows 98 and up, Mac 8.6 and up. $599.99. Though I've tried a number of nifty digital cameras lately, I'll be honest with...

Fed up with junk e-mail? These sites offer some effective solutions.(The Librarian's Internet)
November 1, 2004... About... spam: spam.getnetwise.org. A great site for nontechies. "Tips" offers simple ways of reducing junk e-mail, while "Tools" presents step-by-step, Web-based videos that help you program services like Hotmail and AOL to reject spare....

Checkmate, mon ami.(InstantChess.com)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Capturing kings, holding bishops hostage, and castling is what it's all about on the user-friendly Web site InstantChess.com. There, kids, from beginners to masters, can play chess online and chat with players from all over the world. Based in...

The story of us: (how SLJ became SLJ).(SLJ Celebrates 50 Years)
November 1, 2004... School Library Journal and I started in library service at the same time. I read SLJ's first issue under its then title Junior Libraries during my first job as the most junior assistant in the children's department at New Haven (CT) Free Public...

Is publishing going to the dogs? Amidst celebrity titles and merchandise tie-ins, a lover of children's books finds hope.(SLJ Celebrates 50 Years)
November 1, 2004... When Houghton Mifflin was fighting one of many takeover battles in the late 1970s, the head of the Trade Division called together those of us who worked there. "People always talk about the good old days of publishing, when we published real...

What library schools need; it's time to add some sizzle to boring grad school programs.(SLJ Celebrates 50 Years)
November 1, 2004... The future of library education can be told as part love story, part visionary perspective, and part practical plan of action. It should begin with what we love about youth services and continue with a stretch of our collective imaginations to...

Turning the page: e-books will have a more profound effect on librarians than the invention of the printing press.(SLJ Celebrates 50 Years)
November 1, 2004... The technology of the book has gone through a number of transitions in its long history--from clay to wax to papyrus to vellum to cloth to paper. Books have been stored as tablets, scrolls, and folios, and they've been bound in horn, leather,...

The big picture: a half century of SLJ's covers offers a compelling portrait of the profession.
November 1, 2004... Over the years, we've featured everyone from JFK to J. K. Rowling on our covers. And we've portrayed some of the profession's hottest topics, from "Why Johnny Can Read"--a thorny issue in the '50s--to "Why Johnny Won't Read," one of today's...

The truth about reading: it's easy to blame technology for our younger generation's declining interest in literature. But what, if anything, can be done about it?
November 1, 2004... When the National Endowment for the Arts released its "Reading at Risk: A Survey of Literary Reading in America" this past summer, marshaling statistics gathered over a 10-year period, the report confirmed what many educators, librarians, and...

The same but different: children's librarians have changed significantly over the years. But has anyone noticed?(SLJ Celebrates 50 Years)
November 1, 2004... I was 11 years old in 1954 and a faithful user of the Saint Paul (MN) Public Library's central children's room. My best friend, Cathie, and I rode the streetcar downtown once a week to check out books and enjoy a dish of mint-chip ice cream at...

Extreme makeover: if school librarians plan to survive, it's time to make some tough changes.(SLJ Celebrates 50 Years)
November 1, 2004... Now that kids are sprinting to the Internet for the answer to almost every question, it's time for school librarians to transform themselves. In fact, if media specialists don't adapt to the new information world, they won't survive. Of course,...

Will you still read me when I'm 64? According to today's children's book creators, tomorrow's classics aren't always the obvious choices.(SLJ Celebrates 50 Years)
November 1, 2004... WHICH OF TODAY'S TITLES WILL, BECOME TOMORROW'S classics? That's the question we asked some of our favorite children's book creators. It's a tough task to predict which books will endure--and we made it even tougher by limiting each author and...

Yesterday and today.(SLJ Celebtrates 50 Years)(Illustration)
November 1, 2004... Yesterday and Today 1954 Total number of books published 11,901 Total number of children's books published 1,342 Total number of books ...

The creative life.(Focus on: topical resources for curriculum needs)
November 1, 2004... The underlying essence behind all creativity' is the humanity that elevates art above manufactured product. Creativity takes courage to be nurtured and extracts personal sacrifices. Gifted with premonitions, obscured by insecurities, inflated...

Browne, Anthony. Changes.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... BROWNE, Anthony. Changes. illus. by author. Farrar. 2002. K-Gr 3--All is not as obvious as it seems in these subtly shifting images. Browne is a master of painting fantasy within, reality. When a new baby is about to change the scene in...

Browne. Anthony. The Shape Game.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... BROWNE. Anthony. The Shape Game. illus. by author. Farrar. 2003. K-Gr 4--With his stellar madcap style, Browne celebrates art, family ties, and good humor while applauding individual differences. This autobiographical art tour shows how his...

Nichol, Barbara. Beethoven Lives Upstairs.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... NICHOL, Barbara. Beethoven Lives Upstairs. illus. by Scott Cameron. Scholastic/Orchard 1994. Gr 3-5--A series of fictional letters gives a glimpse of Beethoven's life. The artist boards in Christoph's home where the boy witnesses the...

Van Allsburg, Chris. The Mysteries of Harris Burdick.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... VAN ALLSBURG, Chris. The Mysteries of Harris Burdick. illus. by author. Houghton. 1984. Gr 3 Up--One of America's most eminent illustrators and storytellers tells about an illustrator who took 14 paintings to a publisher and then...

Andrews-Goebel, Nancy. The Pot That Juan Built.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Andrews-Goebel, Nancy. The Pot That Juan Built. illus. by David Diaz. Lee & Low. 2002. K Up--Growing up in the impoverished Mexican town of Mata Ortiz, Juan Quezada discovered pottery shards from indigenous people of long ago. For 20 years...

Brown, Don. Mack Made Movies.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... BROWN, Don. Mack Made Movies. illus. by author. Roaring Brook. 2003. Gr 2-5--Moving from a horse's rear end in a Vaudeville act to founding a major motion-picture studio in the early 1900s, Mack Sennett's story is one of theatrical...

Talking with Artists. Vol. 2.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Cummings, Pat. Talking with Artists, Volume 2. S & S. 1995. Gr 3-6--This resource profiles 13 contemporary illustrators of children's books, including Brian Pinkney, Vera B. Williams, and Kevin Henkes. Each segment offers an interesting...

Leedy, Loreen. Look at My book: How Kids Can Write & Illustrate Terrific Books.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... LEEDY, Loreen. Look at My Book: How Kids Can Write & Illustrate Terrific Books. illus by author. Holiday House. 2004. Gr 2-4--With energetic, cartoon illustrations, this picture book may be the fire that sparks budding authors. It offers up...

Myers, Walter Dean. Blues Journey.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... MYERS, Walter Dean. Blues Journey. illus. by Christopher Myers. Holiday House. 2003. Gr 4 Up--Walter Dean Myers's words mirror the traditional blues cadence to weave the downtrodden into a soulful lesson of survival. "You know the preacher...

Panzer, Nora, ed. Celebrate America: in Poetry and Art.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... PANZER, Nora, ed. Celebrate America: In Poetry and Art. Hyperion. 1994. Gr 4 Up--Similar in design to Jan Greenberg's Heart to Heart (Abrams, 2001), this title offers more than 100 poetic and artistic portrayals of our nation's...

Venezia, Mike. Diego Velazquez.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... VENEZIA, Mike. Diego Velazquez. illus. by author. Children's Press. 2004. Gr 3-6--A master painter by the time he was a teen, this 16th-century phenomenon wowed Spain's regal court with his portrait of the royal family. This book blends...

Creech, Sharon. Love That Dog.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... CREECH, Sharon. Love That Dog. HarperCollins/Joanna Coffer Books. 2001. Gr 4-8--Written in verse, this story celebrates scaling the invisible and seemingly impenetrable obstacle of writing poetry. As a child's own poetic voice hesitantly...

Gantos, Jack. Jack's New Power: Stories from a Caribbean Year.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... GANTOS, Jack. Jack's New Power: Stories from a Caribbean Year. Farrar. 1995. Gr 5-8--Gantos has written five books featuring his "alter ego" and describes these stories as "autobiographical fiction." In this rifle, Jack's a seventh grader...

Park, Linda Sue. A Single Shard.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... PARK, Linda Sue. A Single Shard. Clarion. 2001. Gr 5-8--Rich with the folklore and spiritual essence that defines a culture, this story of medieval Korea introduces a boy who hungers to apprentice with a brilliantly talented artisan. Beset...

Spinelli, Jerry. Stargirl.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... SPINELLI, Jerry. Stargirl. Knopf/Borzoi. 2000. Gr 6-10--Stargirl is eccentric, creative, and kind. She strums her ukulele while singing in the high school cafeteria. She's the embodiment of creative optimism and wears her heart upon her...

Thesman, Jean. Cattail Moon.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... THESMAN, Jean. Cattail Moon. Houghton. 1994. Gr 7-10--Julia, a serious musician at 14, is trapped within the confines of her perfectionist mother's expectations. When Julia's stepfather supports her decision to move to her grandmother's...

Tolan, Stephanie S. Surviving the Applewhites.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... TOLAN, Stephanie S. Surviving the Applewhites. HarperCollins. 2002. Gr 5-8--Living within a powerhouse of talent, drama, and raging chaos, all orderly and systematic 12-year-old suffers in exasperated silence to endure the eccentricities of...

Greenberg, Jan & Sandra Jordan. Chuck Close, Up Close.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... GREENBERG, Jan & Sandra Jordan. Chuck Close, Up Close. DK Ink. 1998. Gr 5 Up--For the larger-than-life portrait artist, painting is expression. Growing up with learning disabilities, Close compensated and overcame his educational...

Greenberg, Jan. Heart to Heart: New Poems Inspired by Twentieth-Century American Art.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... GREENBERG, Jan. Heart to Heart: New Poems Inspired by Twentieth-Century American Art. Abrams. 2001. Gr 5 Up--In this anthology, commissioned pocks express written reflection, interpretation, and definition in response to a diverse...

Greene, Meg. Louis Sachar.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... GREENE, Meg. Louis Sachar. Rosen. 2004. Gr 5-8--A practical kind of guy with an interest in math, a penchant for bridge, and a love of writing, Sachar often has no idea where his story is going, how it will end up, or what it will be...

Grimes, Nikki. Tai Chi Morning: Snapshots of China.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... GRIMES, Nikki. Tat Chi Morning: Snapshots of China. illus. by Ed Young. Cricket. 2004. Gr 6 Up--In 1988, Grimes visited six cities in China, touring with a theatrical arts group from the U.S. A mix of travelogue, sketchbook, and poetic...

Holzhey, Magdalena. Frida Kahlo: the Artist in the Blue House.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... HOLZHEY, Magdalena. Frida Kahlo: The Artist in the Blue House. Prestel. 2003. Gr 5 Up--Kahlo broke through many barriers that inhibited female artists to become Mexico's most renowned female painter. Steeped in symbolism, her paintings...

Meltzer, Milton. Langston Hughes: an Illustrated Edition.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... MELTZER, Milton. Langston Hughes: An Illustrated Edition. illus. by Stephen Alcorn. Millbrook. 1997. Gr 6 Up--Hughes absorbed his history and recorded his everyday life through his poetry, and his words helped kindle the Harlem Renaissance...

Myers, Walter Dean. Bad Boy, a Memoir.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... MYERS, Walter Dean. Bad Boy, a Memoir. HarperCollins. 2001. Gr 8 Up Myers's youthful misadventures speak humorously and seriously to a mass of contradictions: a love and affinity for language hampered first by an early speech impediment,...

Partridge, Elizabeth. This Land Was Made for You and Me: the Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... PARTRIDGE, Elizabeth. This I and Was Made for You and Me: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie. Viking. 2002. Gr 6 Up--A nomad balladeer, Guthrie rose out of the Dust Bowl bursting with unleashed talent. Peculiar and impassioned, this...

Paulsen, Gary. How Angel Peterson Got His Name: and Other Outrageous Tales about Extreme Sports.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... PAULSEN, Gary. How Angel Peterson Got His Name: And Other Outrageous Tales about Extreme Sports. Random/Wendy Lamb Bks. 2003. Gr 6-8--Paulsen's 13th year is recounted with a winning, maverick style that reflects the spirited antics of boys...

Rubin, Susan Goldman. Degas and the Dance: the Painter and the Petits Rats, Perfecting Their Art.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... RUBIN, Susan Goldman. Degas and the Dance: The Painter and the Petits Rats, Perfecting Their Art. Abrams. 2002. Gr 5 Up--An impressionist master, Degas caught, as though in a snapshot, the agony and delicacy of ballet. He was compelled to...

Donnelly, Jennifer. A Northern Light.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... DONNELLY, Jennifer. A Northern Light. Harcourt. 2003. Gr 8 Up--In the early 1900s, a small-town girl who longs to be a writer inherits the household demands that her mother's death bestows. To escape, Mattic takes a job at an Adirondack...

Grimes, Nikki. Bronx Masquerade.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... GRIMES, Nikki. Bronx Masquerade. Dial. 2002. Gr 9 Up--Students in an urban high school English class tell their stories through snippets of narrative-in-verse and alternating poetry. The main character is the MC spokesman, but he passes the...

Freedman, Russell. Martha Graham: a Dancer's Life.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... FREEDMAN, Russell. Martha Graham: A Dancer's Life. Clarion. 1998. Gr 8 Up--Graham's story, is the epitome of a creative life, and it is told through evocative photographs and sensational anecdotes. She demanded control over the...

Gantos, Jack. Hole in My Life.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... GANTOS, Jack. Hole in My Life. Farrar. 2002. Gr 9 Up--The autobiographical account of the author's search for his magical muse is thwarted by a get-rich quick scheme of pirating a ship of pot up the coast. Gantos takes his consequence in...

Hurston, Zora Neale. Dust Tracks on a Road: an Autobiography.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... HURSTON, Zora Neale. Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography. HarperTrade. 1996. (91 is o.p.) Adult/High School--Written 62 years ago, this autobiography still revels in the writer's flesh and genuine voice. Raised within the country's...

Lamott, Anne. Bird by Bird.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... LAMOTT. Anne. Bird by Bird. Pantheon. 1994. Adult/High School--From tips on finding one's voice to bulldozing through the self-doubt that snuffs out ideas before they have a chance, this is the book to convince writers to take their first...

Lester, Julius. On Writing for Children and Other People.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... LESTER, Julius. On Writing for Children and Other People. Dial. 2004. Adult/High School--This introspective work spans the author's lifetime devotion to the study of self-expression, racial inequality, cultural differences, social...

Nelson, Marilyn. Carver: a Life in Poems.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... NELSON, Marilyn. Carver: A Life in Poems. Front St. 2001. Gr 8 Up--George Washington Carver was a botanist, naturalist, and herbalist, and also a painter, musician, and poet as well as the first African-American student, and later teacher,...

Chuck Close Close Up.(Video Recording Review)(Brief Article)(Children's Review)
November 1, 2004... Chuck Close Close Up. video. 28 min. with tchr's. guide on Web site. L & S Video (www.landsvideo.com). 2004. ISBN 1-882660-23-4. $39.95. Gr 7 Up--This documentary takes viewers into Close's studio and provides an overview of his life and...

Creative Reading and Writing with Roald Dahl: Characters, Metaphors and Similes.(Video Recording Review)(Brief Article)(Children's Review)
November 1, 2004... Creative Reading and Writing with Roam Dahl: Characters, Metaphors and Similes. video. 15 min. with tchr's, guide. New Dimension Media (www.nd mquestar.com). 2003. #23286. $49. Gr 3-6--Author Dahl's creative process is showcased in this...

Good Conversation! A Talk with Pam Munoz Ryan.(Video Recording Review)(Brief Article)(Children's Review)
November 1, 2004... Good Conversation! A Talk with Pam Munoz Ryan. video or DVD. 20 min. Tim Podell Prods. (www.goodconversations.com). 2002. video: $49.98, DVD: $59.98. Gr 3-80--Ryan, winner of the 2002 Pura Belpre Award for her book Esperanza Rising...

The Poet's View: W.S. Merwin.(Video Recording Review)(Brief Article)(Children's Review)
November 1, 2004... The Poet's View: W.S. Merwin. video. 18 min. Prod. by Academy of American Poets. Dist. by Pyramid (www.pyramidmedia.com). 2003. ISBN 1-55981-819-0. $149. Gr 9 Up--Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet W.S. Merwin explains why he lives in a...

Puppetry: Worlds of Imagination.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Puppetry: Worlds of Imagination. video. 44 min. Cinema Guild (www.cinemaguild. com). 2001, 2002 release. ISBN 0-7815-0917-3. $275. Gr 8 Up--Narrated by actor Joseph Campanella, this beautifully executed video provides a fascinating look at...

Attributes of a Creative.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Attributes of a Creative. www.enchanted mind.com/html/creativity/attributes.html. Enchanted Mind. (Accessed 9/20/04). Gr 9 Up--Think you don't have what it takes to be a creative genius? Think again after you visit this site. "Use it or...

Cyberteens.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Cyberteens. www.cyberteens.com/cr/index. html. (Accessed 9/20/04). Gr 7-12--Creativity abounds at this site, featuring written, audio, and visual work submitted by teens. The "Gallery" features artwork and photographs; writing is divided...

Inventing Modern America: From the Microwave to the Mouse.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Inventing Modern America: From the Microwave to the Mouse. web.mit.edu/ invent/www/ima/index.html. (Accessed 9/20/04). Gr 6 Up--Every site promoting creativity and ways of developing it suggest that inspiration is the key to thinking...

Kaleidoscope Painter.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Kaleidoscope Painter. www.permadi.com/ java/spaint/spaint.html. (Accessed 9/20/04). K Up--Kaleidoscope Painter is just a simple Java exercise in creativity, for all ages. Click and hold the left mouse button, and be as creative as you...

KidZone.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... KidZone. www.icaf.org/kidzone. International Child Art Foundation. (Accessed 9/20/04). Gr 2-6--Select "Fun Stuff!" from the kid's page and try out the "Creativity Test." Originality and imagination are stressed as the key components in...

10 Steps for Boosting Creativity.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... 10 Steps for Boosting Creativity. www.jpb. com/creative/creative.php JPB Creative Co., Ltd. (Accessed 9/20/04). Gr 9 Up--This site is geared toward freeing up innovative thinking. Read the "10 Steps" for some good ideas on getting the...

Wordplay.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Wordplay. www.fun-with-words.com/index. html. (Accessed 9/20/04). Gr 9 Up--This fun site offers an encyclopedia of words. Check out the exhaustive list of word formats: anagrams (the eyes--they see), palindromes (never odd or even),...