Theme for 2007:
- Kids
- Teens
Children's: "Get A Clue @ Your Library"
Mark Teague
Mark Teague has delighted young readers with more than 20 picture books, and he has written many of them himself, including the popular Pigsty, Baby Tamer, and One Halloween Night. He is also the illustrator of Cynthia Rylant's beloved Poppleton series for beginning readers and the best-selling books by Jane Yolen, How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight and How Do Dinosaurs Get Well Soon.
Mark Teague's life changed when he moved from San Diego to New York City and he planted the seed for his first picture book, The Trouble with the Johnsons. Each of Teague's books start as "notebooks full of sketches and scribbles, strange little drawings and phrases that suddenly come together," Teague explains. And although he had no formal writing training, his endless imagination and understanding nature gives him a permanent place in the hearts of everyone.
Mark and his wife live in Coxsackie, New York, with their young daughter Lily, who has a great time watching her dad paint the pictures in his books.
Portfolio: http://www.scholastic.com/titles/dinogoodnight/moreteague.htm
Alumni profile: Clever tales make author-illustrator a top dog in children's publishing http://currents.ucsc.edu/03-04/03-01/teague.html
Get a Clue @ Your Library
Chapter 1: Planning
Chapter 2: Promotion
Chapter 3: Detect It! Super Summer Sleuthing
Ideas suggested:
- Mysterious Disguises
- Make a Detective Kit
- Fingerprinting
- How to Write a Mystery
- Famous Sleuths: Sherlock Holmes, etc.
- Literary Sleuths
- Fingerprinting/ GEMS program/ Ed Emberley's thumbprints
- Missing people
- FBI program
- Crime Scene Evidence: police evidence technician or forensic specialist
- Girl Sleuths
- Animal Sleuths
- Preschool ideas: Treasure Hunt, Scent Detective, What Is It Box, What's Wrong with This Picture
Chapter 4 Solve It! Puzzles, Codes and Ciphers
Ideas suggested:
- Secret Codes: Braille, UPC Product Codes, Morse, Pig Latin, American Sign Language, semaphore, rebuses, secret languages such as hash house or diner slang, backwards writing, numbers = letters, code words, block ciphers
- Scavenger hunts
- Invisible Ink
- Hidden Pictures
- Mazes: Giant Maze with stacks or maze using blue painter's masking tape/ Corn mazes
- 20Q game
- Make-Your-Own Ending
- Crossword puzzles
- Mystery Meal
- Unfolding Mysteries. Paper folding stories such as Nancy Schimmel's The Rainhat. Or, origami
- Preschool: Guessing Games, riddles, rebuses, Anno's Peekaboo, Mouse Views, Preschool puzzle exchange, peekaboo, hiding places, Have them guess what kind of person or job goes with what kind of hat. Martin's Hats, Caps for Sale, Which Hat Is That?
Chapter 5 Dig It Up! Mysteries from the Past
Ideas suggested:
- Egyptology: mummies, pyramids, sphinx
- Lost Civilizations: Mayan, Etruscans, Vikings, etc.
- Mysterious places: Stonehenge Stonehenge, Bermuda Triangle, Crop circles
- Be an Archeologist/Fossils/ dinosaurs
- History mysteries (American Girl history mysteries, historical mysteries)
- Preschool ideas: Pourquoi stories: how giraffe got long neck, etc., digging up dinosaurs
Chapter 6: Discover it! Science Mysteries
Ideas suggested:
- Rocks that Float
- Name That Leaf or Flower
- Everyday mysteries: why does a camel have a hump?
- Mysteries in the Sky
- Optical Illusions
- Preschool ideas: Mystery Seeds or mystery garden. At beginning of summer plant mystery seeds and figure out what they are as they grow.
- Color Mysteries, Mysterious Frogs/Origami, Discovering Shapes: Tana Hoban, Who am I: Name that sound, e.g. buzzing for bee.
Chapter 7: Explain It! Real life mysteries.
Ideas suggested by CSLP Committee:
- It's a Mystery potpourri
- Where in the world is...? (Geo mysteries, discovering places in your community, state, etc.)
- Find Me! GPS/ Geo-Caching/ Letter Boxing
- How Things Work
- Art Detective
- Math Mysteries
- UFO's, Bermuda Triangle, Bigfoot
- Computer Capers
- Preschool: be an art detective, easy math mysteries, Who am I? Guessing Games
Chapter 8: Get a Clue for all ages
Family literacy/intergenerational/adult activities
The 2007 Manual has been completed and will ship in late September 2006.
Teen/YA: "YNK – You Never Know @ Your Library"
Russell Walks
Russell Walks began drawing before he could speak. Born in Billings, Montana in 1964, he is now living in Burbank, California.
In 1990 Walks received a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from Montana State University and celebrated the birth of his son, Matthew.
In the years since, he has worked for a variety of clients including Marvel Comics, DC Comics, Dark Horse Comics, Golden Books, Amazing Stories, LucasFilm LTD, McGraw Hill, Sipder, Star Wars INsider, Topps Company and Warner Books. His personal work has garnered both regional and national acclaim, and hangs in private collections throughout the United States.
"Star Wars affected me in a way that nothing else had," said Walks. "The characters, situations, and music in that movie struck a chord in me so strong that even today, twenty-two years later, the smell of theater popcorn reminds me of the afternoon I saw Star Wars." Walks has created numerous pieces for Lucasfilm licensees, including the Star Wars 25th Anniversary poster.
Visit Russell Walks Web Site: http:www.russellwalks.com
YNK: You Never Know @ Your Library
Chapter 1 CSI
- Tour of police department
- Workshop on crime scene investigation techniques: fingerprinting, plaster casts of footprints, etc.
- Information speech by coroner, tour of coroner's lab
Chapter 2 Victorian Mystery
- Live Clue game
- Book discussions
- Sherlock Holmes lookalike contest
- Sherlock trivia
Chapter 3 Spies and Codes
- Navajo code talkers
- Puzzles
- Workshop to develop codes
- Scavenger hunt that involves breaking codes
- Spying techniques?
Chapter 4 Maps and Lost Treasures
- Geo-caching, letter boxing (http://www.letterboxing.org/)
- Orienteering
- Sunken treasures
- Passive contest: bulletin board with unmarked maps, kids have to identify countries, etc.
- Pin the capital on the map (can be used in addition to another program)
- Online treasure hunt?
- Display idea: kid's treasures: feature coin collections, stamp collections, etc.
Chapter 5 History's Mysteries
- Pyramids (Design a crane to left large blocks? Build them out of sugar cubes?)
- Atlantis
- Stonehenge
- Mayan ruins
- Cave writing
Chapter 6 Paranormal
- Feng shui
- Séance
- UFOs
- ESP - have kids do the test with the cards with the squiggly lines, stars, etc.
- Astrology - have kids design their own horoscope
- Book suggestion: Who do you think you are? Twelve methods for analyzing the true you by Tucker Shaw
Chapter 7 Graphic Novels
- Comics workshop
- Decorating idea: Dick Tracy-type graphics
- Book suggestion: Forensic Files of Batman
California Summer Reading Program